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Jul. 16th, 2025 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zero_pixel_countSo I have been stalled for... weeks now. Just nothing creative going on, really.
But then the other day I was tagged in a tumblr thing and that gave me impetus to go find a snippet, and picked one from coming back, coming home on the arbitrary grounds that it was the last thing I'd posted a snippet from there - of course it wasn't quite coherent as it stood so I polished it up a bit -
( Hanno, ahead of him, has left his pack and walking-staff resting against a boulder.. )
And having done that I thought, what's stopping me poking at this a bit more? To which the answer was 'mostly fear of merge conflicts' given that I had like, 2 Ellipsus branches + the version in Scrivener + notes on a paper copy. So on Friday I was like, well that's administrative I could just do it?
(Of course it's not really administrative because the merge decisions are creative and really it turned into editing -
- hah, you know that thing so much advice tells you isn't the way to get going? Honestly I don't know what that's about but I'm pretty sure it's advice for someone with a different brain.)
Anyway I guess I reconciled-and-edited about 9k and that got me up to the Chartéscha-pass descent, which is where my initial no-outline draft went in what was clearly the wrong direction back in April (went, honestly, in the direction it would have gone had the characters been dealing with events as the versions of themselves from a couple of time-loops further on, which is a constant PITA with this).
And then the upshot is I get stuck on writing it because I lose track of where I'm going with it. So I'm putting my notes here in the hope that setting it out for a theoretical someone-else will help.
( Yeah you're all being rubber ducks sorry. Ducky the actual rubber unicorn-duck is no use because they can't read. )
...so, that helped, I think.
(off to an event very soon, will catch up when I get back, I am, as usual, Behind.)
But then the other day I was tagged in a tumblr thing and that gave me impetus to go find a snippet, and picked one from coming back, coming home on the arbitrary grounds that it was the last thing I'd posted a snippet from there - of course it wasn't quite coherent as it stood so I polished it up a bit -
( Hanno, ahead of him, has left his pack and walking-staff resting against a boulder.. )
And having done that I thought, what's stopping me poking at this a bit more? To which the answer was 'mostly fear of merge conflicts' given that I had like, 2 Ellipsus branches + the version in Scrivener + notes on a paper copy. So on Friday I was like, well that's administrative I could just do it?
(Of course it's not really administrative because the merge decisions are creative and really it turned into editing -
- hah, you know that thing so much advice tells you isn't the way to get going? Honestly I don't know what that's about but I'm pretty sure it's advice for someone with a different brain.)
Anyway I guess I reconciled-and-edited about 9k and that got me up to the Chartéscha-pass descent, which is where my initial no-outline draft went in what was clearly the wrong direction back in April (went, honestly, in the direction it would have gone had the characters been dealing with events as the versions of themselves from a couple of time-loops further on, which is a constant PITA with this).
And then the upshot is I get stuck on writing it because I lose track of where I'm going with it. So I'm putting my notes here in the hope that setting it out for a theoretical someone-else will help.
( Yeah you're all being rubber ducks sorry. Ducky the actual rubber unicorn-duck is no use because they can't read. )
...so, that helped, I think.
(off to an event very soon, will catch up when I get back, I am, as usual, Behind.)