9000 words and counting

[julesjones]

Only 1350 words today, because I needed to stop and think about how to handle the last section I wrote last night. It's a tricky balancing act, because the POV character and the pair of doms he's just met are talking at cross-purposes, and they are coming on to him in what they see as a pushy but not outrageous manner, because they think he knows who they are. Only they're wrong, and from his perspective they're threatening him. So I need to write this so that it is obvious to the *reader* that it is just a misunderstanding, while staying in POV. predatrix and I spent a couple of hours this afternoon discussing how I can handle this, and basically tweaking the existing stuff so that it works better. I may need another test reader in a couple of days to see whether the tweaks have worked. That's taken the total word count so far to 9000 words, so this is looking like at least novella length when it's finished.

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Right, potential test reader here.

[julesjones]

Thanks. I'll probably do anohter few thousand words and then see what people think of it.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

If you need someone else to give it the old hairy eyeball, I'll be happy to oblige.

[julesjones]

Thanks. I should point out that this is (so far) much more of a PWP than usual -- I started it partly in reaction to having done a solid year of stuff that was essentially political sf that happens to have a gay romance plot.

Must consider whether to follow Charlie's lead and set up an LJ beta-reader filter. I'm contemplating abandoning the policy of only friending LJs I actually read regularly, and moving over to the thing where you can set your default view to show a specific filter.