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September 08, 2004
chap 32 - blaine is a pain
I went for a twenty minute walk while I was home visiting the 'rents and cleared out some deadwood in my head with the story.
It's getting more complicated. This is either good or bad. Either I'm making things very difficult on myself, or I can believe that I have a handle on all the threads of the story and I'm just guiding that kite into the headwinds.
I personally think it means I'm going to be in rewrite hell sometime soon, but for now it's just stuff I'm taking note of with the intent of smoothing it all out later.
Any trip to the folks usually means I'm going to get a book read, and in this case I plowed through two. Chances are I'll be reading the next four Dark Tower books for the rest of the year (I figure the last book will be out by the time I finish Susannah) and then I'll move on to George R.R. Martin as I keep promising myself. Probably around Christmas, when I take my next sojourn west.
Because I am reading Stephen King, I'm also thinking about his writing process. Not his style, but his process. Because he himself says he doesn't outline, he excavates. Which is all well and good, but goddamn -- with that approach there's a lot of room for error in a series like the Dark Tower.
Unless, of course, you have a very fine hold on the strings.
Chapter 32 is halfway done. Lots of screaming. We like screaming.
Posted by sdshaver at September 8, 2004 01:47 AM