1000’s of words cut!!!
Today I stripped 3 stories in the Jabbler’s Mons series of about 2000 words each.
This is down to video. I made the Arakawa River video, which is long narration clips split by titles. After working on it, the only parts I like to re-watch are the titles- because they’re FUNKY, and tied up to the beat. The narration bits are long, static, and dull.
Compare that to my frisbee video, which is a lot of shorter faster more diverse cuts, with a diverse range of people in them, and I like watching it again and again.
So- apply that to writing- every bit that I skip over now- the dense description bits, the bits I don’t want to mess with because I know if I do they’ll unravel- they need to go!
Now all of those stories, which one stood at a bloated 6,000 words each, are fighting fit, lean and mean at around 4,000 words each. That’s pretty good.
Watched 3 Seinfelds. Went to the Gym, talked to Dean. Watched Eastern Promises. Not a Viggo Mortensen fan AT all. Not terrible, but only worth watching as I had no other movies to watch.
Hoopla.
Maybe I’ll make that review blog now. Yeah, I guess so. Doesn’t have to be on the front page for it to BE there. Like this random blog! Will only be seen by people who LOOK for it. Or who have the RSS. Yeah.
Yup, that’s how I found this, but RSS.
Eastern Promises rocks! Interesting that you did not like it.
интересная информация. мне понравилось то, о чем вы пишите.
in English (Yahoo translation) - interesting information. that was pleased to me, about which you write.