{"id":3247,"date":"2012-03-26T07:21:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2020-01-04T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T14:31:16","slug":"amediting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/amediting\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amediting"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"garter<\/a>

No, these are not rattlesnakes. They are garter snakes. But you get the idea.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dream a couple\u00a0 nights ago.<\/p>\n

Rattlesnake infestation.<\/p>\n

But I was handling it, in typical “made sense at the time” dream logic: I was picking them up (no, not with my hands! with a stick!) and . . . putting them into books.<\/p>\n

Large, thick books, they were, with the pages partially scooped out in the middle. Plenty heavy enough to contain a rattlesnake.<\/p>\n

And as it happens, I’m editing Loose Dog — and one of the things I’m doing is fleshing out a couple of the characters a bit more.<\/p>\n

Which means I’m making them more human.<\/p>\n

Which means I’m showing a bit more of how slithery they can be.<\/p>\n

Get into the book, you slithery character, you ;-)<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I’m also working on the plotting.<\/p>\n

I can show that here without the use of random nature photos, because I use stickies to help me visualize the relationship between plots and subplots.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the book looked like a couple weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> I’d front-loaded the backstory about my protag’s relationship with her ex-fiance (blue stickies on the left). Decided that didn’t work — gave away too much too early.<\/p>\n

Another weakness in the plot was that too much of my main counterplot (protag breaks up a dog fighting ring) was clumped at the end (orange stickies on the far right).<\/p>\n

Here’s how it looks now.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So.<\/p>\n

More slither.<\/p>\n

Plot a bit more mixed up.<\/p>\n

Progress, I think . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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