On actually finishing something I started
Dec. 30th, 2011 06:07 pmI recently finished the ~114,000 word thing that started my Tolkienverse madness, and I spent a good deal of today re-parsing the chapters in a more sensible and digestible manner. This involved getting to think of significant (and, where possible, double-edged) subtitles for certain chronologically contiguous sections that have been teased out into separate chapters. I love naming things (rather like the first men/elves/beings/whatever of many myths).
I was kind of surprised when I ended a chapter last week and suddenly was visited with the realization: "Hey. This s*** is finished."
Ostensibly. Some stuff at the beginning no longer makes sense and it will require a lot of tweaking, particularly of characters who evolved along the way. Plus it's the first of a projected three thingies. x__x
It needs a title. x____x
I was kind of surprised when I ended a chapter last week and suddenly was visited with the realization: "Hey. This s*** is finished."
Ostensibly. Some stuff at the beginning no longer makes sense and it will require a lot of tweaking, particularly of characters who evolved along the way. Plus it's the first of a projected three thingies. x__x
It needs a title. x____x