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As I mentioned recently, I’ve been struggling to make myself go back and edit my novel version of Adonis. I am currently very unhappy with what I have, and seriously concerned my prose writing skills aren’t quite up to the task of making it the quality that I want it to be. I think it’s SUCH a good story, it deserves better than what I’ve managed to hack together so far. But my fear of being inadequate to the job puts me off.
Consequently, it’s been a while since I’ve gone back to it. But it occurs to me I’ve done a fair bit of prose writing since then. Since finishing the first draft I’ve written almost another novel’s worth of Captain America fan fiction, which if nothing else, has given me the opportunity to practice. Now, that’s considerably lower-stakes, and lower-demand due to considerably lower standards in various dimensions, so maybe it’s not really comparable. But I guess there’s a chance with that work I’ve done there has improved me. I suppose nothing will tell so much as going back and attempting the edit again.
One of the things I want to do with subsequent drafts of the novel is to expand it with secondary characters and story. Right now it’s very focused on the main plot, which was taken directly from the original screenplay. But I thought that giving Aidan some fellow gladiators to interact with would be a good way to add depth. So this scene shows a bit of that attempt, laying the groundwork for the scene I did in Day #7 - Red Tyrus. There’s not much here yet, but there’s an idea.
( Day #18 - Legend on the Sands )
Consequently, it’s been a while since I’ve gone back to it. But it occurs to me I’ve done a fair bit of prose writing since then. Since finishing the first draft I’ve written almost another novel’s worth of Captain America fan fiction, which if nothing else, has given me the opportunity to practice. Now, that’s considerably lower-stakes, and lower-demand due to considerably lower standards in various dimensions, so maybe it’s not really comparable. But I guess there’s a chance with that work I’ve done there has improved me. I suppose nothing will tell so much as going back and attempting the edit again.
One of the things I want to do with subsequent drafts of the novel is to expand it with secondary characters and story. Right now it’s very focused on the main plot, which was taken directly from the original screenplay. But I thought that giving Aidan some fellow gladiators to interact with would be a good way to add depth. So this scene shows a bit of that attempt, laying the groundwork for the scene I did in Day #7 - Red Tyrus. There’s not much here yet, but there’s an idea.
( Day #18 - Legend on the Sands )
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