(What's the problem? Can we help? Without having the faintest clue what the difficulty is, my first impulse in problem-solving is to see if whatever-it-is can be done in the dialogue).
You've reached your original word count goal, and you still have over a week to finish the story, so I think you should be more than mildly pleased :-)
I was trying to find a clever way to weave the past and present together, but my idea was too ambitious and pretty much incomprehensible on the page. Maybe if I color coded.... I think it will be alright the way it is. Next time!
Or different fonts! Or different tenses! Or the date at the head of every section! Or a little photo of Napoleon and Illya looking middle-aged and careworn for the later sections and skinny and youthful for the earlier ones!
*sigh* There are so many solutions, it's hard to pick just one. Maybe you could go with all of them?
Or a little photo of Napoleon and Illya looking middle-aged and (lightly) careworn for the later sections and skinny and youthful for the earlier ones!
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ninetydegrees
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on 2009-11-22 09:07 am (UTC)(What's the problem? Can we help? Without having the faintest clue what the difficulty is, my first impulse in problem-solving is to see if whatever-it-is can be done in the dialogue).
You've reached your original word count goal, and you still have over a week to finish the story, so I think you should be more than mildly pleased :-)
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on 2009-11-22 02:01 pm (UTC)I think it will be alright the way it is. Next time!
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on 2009-11-22 02:37 pm (UTC)Or different fonts! Or different tenses! Or the date at the head of every section! Or a little photo of Napoleon and Illya looking middle-aged and careworn for the later sections and skinny and youthful for the earlier ones!
*sigh* There are so many solutions, it's hard to pick just one. Maybe you could go with all of them?
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on 2009-11-22 02:54 pm (UTC)Aha. Problem solved!