November 2018, Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!

May the magic be with us all!

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've finished the rewriting of the last 3 chapters of the Dwobbit story. Still not satisfied with them, but at least the structure is done. It will need some more tinkering, I am afraid. I'll have to return to them when I have won a bit of distance. Until then, I will go on with the narrative.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

It's progress. You need something there before you can fiddle with it :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's what I keep telling myself. I'm having increasing amounts of such "somethings", with dwindling hope that they'd actually become anything useful. It comes from having to deal with canon events that are extraordinarily well-known, even by casual readers. How do you make them interesting and canon-compliant without copying Tolkien's original text?

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Have you tinkered with point of view? That's so useful to give a fresh outlook on well known material.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm actually writing the whole thing from the point of view of a "main" character who, IIRC, doesn't have a single line of dialogue in the books and only speaks Dwarvish in the films. I've been writing the character as female for many years (long before the films came out) and did a great deal of background work on her, which is why the first six or so chapters are good, if I say so myself. Ever since canon events have started, though, it has been a never-ending struggle.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Distance is good.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I just fear that I'll have to walk off the map in order to get enough distance between me and the dratted stuff.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Ouch.