02-09-2025, 08:48 PM
(02-09-2025, 07:14 PM)chr0naut Wrote: The hardest part of editing is cutting out stuff you have worked so hard on.
Is it really relevant, or is it just filler?
Very true. The whole book is written around the buried memories. Those I intersperse in the rest of the story, but the real story is the flashbacks.
but I more and more think I need to rewrite the first three chapters and make them one. But as I read and listen to other books the pacing seems similar, so wanted to get outside opinions.
right now it is written with the formwork/mold/outline of 24 chapter hero’s journey. It meets all the field posts along the way. But… I find myself wanting to condense the beginning. But that would break the pattern set.
anyways that is my real question in all this. Condense or just revise what I have.
