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[owlmoose]

Wonder of wonders, I have caught up! Just in time for the weekend break we all seem to be taking. I wasn't planning it, but I woke up early this morning full of inspiration for where to take Nine, and I finished it.

Transitional chapters are always the hardest for me to write. I keep being drawn to the significant events that are happening next, and I have to force myself to concentrate on where I'm actually supposed to be working. It's even worse with AGL, because I set my own agenda there. This story is a little bit different, because I'm working within a much stricter framework, which helps force me to mostly write it in order. In that respect, I think OMC has been an excellent exercise, because this story is coming out much tighter. (I really wonder what a good editor would do with AGL; I bet one could cut out a lot of fat.)

I'm glad for the weekend break, actually, because now I can really take some time to think about Ten. That chapter is such a turning point for everyone, and I really don't want to rush it.

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

When you talk about writing within confines, you are saying what I have so often said about the value of writing poetry accord to the French forms. The presence of the frame forces one to consider elements which might pass in a freer form. I always found it oddly liberating to use the sestina, vilanelle etc. forms to keep my poetry from sprawling all over the place. Now, like you, I wonder what a decent editor would do pruning away at something like Petrichor. Maybe we of the modern era have taken the 'free verse' idea to extremes in all our writing and need the discipline of the older restrictions.