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Jan. 3rd, 2006 | 09:03 pm
music: Avenue Q - I Wish I Could Go Back to College
Writing a sequel is harder than I thought.
I've had the basic idea for what'll happen in the new book down for some time, but more and more of the little details have required experimentation. How long after the events in the first book to these events take place? The earliest drafts took place a few years later, the more recent ones were about a year later, and now I'm trying out a two-months-later draft. I got one draft about 1/3rd of the way finished, then decided it wasn't nearly funny enough, and scrapped most of it. I've written about a dozen opening pages. All this is in contrast to the first couple chapters of the first book, which were done very quickly. There was some lag time between writing the first 30 pages and writing the rest of the rough draft, though. And there was some workshopping. I miss workshopping.
I've had the basic idea for what'll happen in the new book down for some time, but more and more of the little details have required experimentation. How long after the events in the first book to these events take place? The earliest drafts took place a few years later, the more recent ones were about a year later, and now I'm trying out a two-months-later draft. I got one draft about 1/3rd of the way finished, then decided it wasn't nearly funny enough, and scrapped most of it. I've written about a dozen opening pages. All this is in contrast to the first couple chapters of the first book, which were done very quickly. There was some lag time between writing the first 30 pages and writing the rest of the rough draft, though. And there was some workshopping. I miss workshopping.