Another few thousand words of draft
writing later and it's brought up some crazy moments and thoughts.
Here are a select few of those moments.
Have these two idiots been talking
for 4000+ words? What they heck are they even talking about?
Harry is obviously one of the idiots in
the conversation. And I don't know how it became such a long bit of
dialogue and speaking. No one should speak that much in just one go.
I didn't realize how big it had gotten until I was moving what I had
written into another document.
It's been rather
peaceful for a while. No Shikaku anywhere... never mind, I spoke too soon.
I had just finished writing out a
chapter scene and thinking- it's been a while since any Nara showed
up. When I go to check on my plot table, what do I see? That I
actually need to bring the Nara in so that Harry can have some sort
of revelation or something.
Let's play a game of -Where's
Hedwig?
No, really where is Hedwig? Did I send
her up ahead somewhere? Is she sleeping on someone's shoulder? Is she
doing something menacing? Why can't I keep track of what I wrote
she's doing? I don't have the answers for any of those questions. I'm seriously colour coding character names so that I can
see where and when I've written everyone in.
Have I already done this scene in
a previous chapter?
Because it certainly feels like I have.
This has happened quite a few times. And I couldn't even be bothered
to look. I just wrote it anyway and put a sticky note thing on the
side of the word document that says “Check if this is a repeat
scene.” I apparently have very high hopes for future editing-me.
When will Kakashi come out of my
writing limbo?
Apparently, never. I'm giving his
scenes to everyone else. Poor guy. But I am working on it. I'm
sure I'll get him back in AtO eventually. Maybe he can have a nice
and final heroic death. Off-screen. And then Harry could get his
nin-dogs. I totally have not thought about his death scene at
all.
Speaking of possible heroic
deaths, I wonder what Sasuke's been up to?
Nobody knows. Not Team 7 and most
definitely not me. He's successfully keeping a low profile. I just know that the first time Sasuke appears in
person in AtO, Harry's going to... well let's just say, it's not going to be a
nice meeting for anyone. At least that's how I imagine it in my head
for now. It's going to be a while before I write that scene.
While I haven't mentioned them, the
Akatsuki do bring up their own share of crazy thoughts during their
rare but deadly appearances. I actually just finished writing a
possible Akatsuki scene and it was a bit... blah. I'm lost on
how I've managed to make them so blah. And I'm going to have to
figure out how to make them less blah.
So basically, let's all just pray for
future editing-me.
Polar
