A New Year

The first part of the GIANT is complete, it's now onto the second. I had thought that the second part would go more quickly than the first, but so far I'm moving no more quickly than before. It seems like I've been working on some of these pages for days at a time.

The slowness, however, is for the betterment of the book. During my hand edit I noticed the text is often empty of description and place setting. I made a note for myself about setting the scene - sights, sounds, smells, emotions, etc. I taped this on a shelf next to my computer monitor. In my print of the text, where the story needed better description I simply wrote "SET SCENE".

I haven't taken a lot of writing courses, so I forget about some of the visual communication to the reader. I'll find myself picturing the scene in my mind, but negelecting to describe it on paper.