I'm a little worried. I continue to write my new book. To remind you, it's a dystopic young adult about a recovering sex slave. She's now with the group of people who are helping implement her "escape" (so to speak) from The Corporation that runs the world. It involves some cloak and dagger, some computer hacking, and that all very easily comes to mind. That part is a cinch. It reminds me of my television writing days. However, there has been a brief "break" in the action, if you will, while the hacker preps the technology, the thief's back story gets introduced, and the sexual tension between the heroine and our male lead gets developed.
The book has gone from an action adventure, into a character/romance novel and the timing has slowed down, the pace, the tone, the whole kit and caboodle. But, all this development is necessary, I feel, so that when we launch into The Heist, as I'm calling it in my head, we know the people involved. We get them. We care.
But, the pacing still bothers me....Is it okay to slow it down? Have I "lowered the stakes" too far so that I can rocket them through the roof? Will it be too jarring?
I guess I'm going to truck along and continue on my designated path, and when the draft is all done, I'll have a better idea on what to do.
It reminds me of when I wrote my first book with my former partner. All action, all snappy dialogue, all fun, fun, adventure, adventure, then WHAM! Our heroine ends up boarding with a Quaker family and the pace of the book comes to a screeching halt. It was totally necessary in order to forward the story, but perhaps it went on a little too long, perhaps it wasn't quite quick enough, and perhaps with not enough tension (though, we ended up adding tension, I wasn't ever quite sure it was enough). And get this, it was the same chapter number that did it.
Chapter Nine.
Darn you Chapter Nine! Darn you to heck!
Anyways, I'm into Chapter Ten now, and I'm trying to find ways to build the tension so that when the action starts back up, the reader will be entirely stressed out and anxious, but I'm not 100% sure it's there yet. I guess that's why "they" say never to let anyone read your first draft.
Meh.
Onward.
The book has gone from an action adventure, into a character/romance novel and the timing has slowed down, the pace, the tone, the whole kit and caboodle. But, all this development is necessary, I feel, so that when we launch into The Heist, as I'm calling it in my head, we know the people involved. We get them. We care.
But, the pacing still bothers me....Is it okay to slow it down? Have I "lowered the stakes" too far so that I can rocket them through the roof? Will it be too jarring?
I guess I'm going to truck along and continue on my designated path, and when the draft is all done, I'll have a better idea on what to do.
It reminds me of when I wrote my first book with my former partner. All action, all snappy dialogue, all fun, fun, adventure, adventure, then WHAM! Our heroine ends up boarding with a Quaker family and the pace of the book comes to a screeching halt. It was totally necessary in order to forward the story, but perhaps it went on a little too long, perhaps it wasn't quite quick enough, and perhaps with not enough tension (though, we ended up adding tension, I wasn't ever quite sure it was enough). And get this, it was the same chapter number that did it.
Chapter Nine.
Darn you Chapter Nine! Darn you to heck!
Anyways, I'm into Chapter Ten now, and I'm trying to find ways to build the tension so that when the action starts back up, the reader will be entirely stressed out and anxious, but I'm not 100% sure it's there yet. I guess that's why "they" say never to let anyone read your first draft.
Meh.
Onward.
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