![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My books tend to have what are called ‘steep learning curves.’ In other words, they take a little getting used to. So, I rewrote the first scene to have Raoden waking up, seeing Elantris, and then realizing he’d been taken by the Shaod. In the end, I realized that this was a bulky construction that didn’t really speed the novel up–but rather slowed it down. While this line worked pretty well, I found I had to do an extended flashback showing him waking up and frightening the maid, etc. That original line was: “It wasn’t until Raoden heard the gate swing closed behind him, booming with a shocking sound of finality, that he realized he had been damned.” When I first wrote the book, I threw Raoden directly into the city, line one. First off, it didn’t originally start with Raoden waking up. There are a couple of interesting things about this chapter. ![]()
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