Showing posts with label evisceration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evisceration. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

All that's left is the bones

That scream you just heard? That was my story after I gutted and flayed it.

I am revising Gaia's Hands -- or so I thought. I looked over the structure of my story and realized it needed ... a lot. The bones are solid: the unlikely couple of Jeanne Beaumont and Josh Young, their struggle against a corporate-academic partnership that threatens Jeanne's livelihood and more, the development of their relationship with the World-Soul Gaia and their talents. The flesh on the bones -- the particulars, the pacing -- all off.  

In other words, the outline needs reshaping, and large amounts of it need to be completely rewritten knowing what I know now about writing. 

I really don't know if I'm up to rewriting this story.

Sigh.