3 Green Fish

Whoo, I added another 4 pages today! As you can see, I’m almost a third of the way along in what I’ve written, by page count. In truth, I’m probably even farther along, story-wise, as I’ve made this draft a little more compact and less needlessly verbose than the last. The dialogue has been a lot easier this time through, so that helps make everything flow better without lots of exposition.

I was able to recycle a decent chunk of the last draft, which helped move things along. Almost all of Fink’s dialogue remained the same, and I was able to reuse much of Bandolor’s and Tibalim’s in their scene together, with some expansion and alteration. Sadly, I ended up having to remove a joke/wordplay from the conversation due to the change in language I’ve been working on. The good news is that said wordplay wouldn’t really be funny to anyone but me and the lone scholar of Middle English who happens to pick up my book and read it. So it’s not a big loss, although I think I’ll have to go back to those particular lines later and make sure they flow well.

On the other hand, I was able to add a tiny joke about shellfish, so I guess it all evens out a little. And no, you’re not going to see either of them at the moment — they don’t really work outside of the dialogue anyway, and as for the original one, you wouldn’t laugh unless I told you why it was funny, and then you wouldn’t laugh because as we all know, a joke isn’t funny if you have to explain why it’s humorous. But maybe if I end up with a “director’s commentary” in the back of the book I’ll include it there.

I think I’m getting close to being able to skip ahead to later stuff. I’ll probably go over what I have and map out the scenes a little so I have an idea of what I’d be working off of, but after that I think I could move ahead to playing around with newer stuff from the middle of the book. This draft is a big improvement, but I want to move ahead to text I haven’t written yet, especially given all the story ideas that have popped into my head as of late (I hardly have room for them all).

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