SUMMARY OF EDITS FOR CHAPTER TWENTY
There
were a few pencil marks on Chapter Twenty to draw my attention to things I’d
missed. They were all things which I’d have eventually noticed myself such as a
missing letter on the end of a word or a missing comma. There were also a couple of tick marks to
indicate parts my editor liked. So on the surface not much to do with this
chapter.
The end
of the previous chapter marked the Crises point of the story. This is
the highest energetic marker in
the story so far. It is the scene of highest intensity in terms of Character
Emotional Development and Dramatic Action. It is the point in the story when the
MC is at their lowest ebb, sends them to their knees and cracks them wide open.
As a result, the MC is transformed and comes to a new awareness.
This is followed by the threshold
scene when the character asks why they are in this mess. It is a period of self
reflection when they rethink who they are. It is a time when they can reflect
on their own back story and begin to take responsibility for themselves. It is
the point in the story when they either regain skills they have lost, understand
that their beliefs have held them back or they realise they’d lost a part of
themselves. It is this new understanding which will drive them through the
final part of the story. This is what Chapter Twenty was all about.
When I
read through this chapter again, I realised that I could still incorporate a
lot more into it. It was a fairly short one, comprising only seven MS pages.
Most of the others averaged around twelve. I rewrote a couple of scenes
incorporating new ideas I had come up with since I wrote the original and the
net result was two extra pages. Other changes I made included rephrasing the
odd sentence and changing words here and there. All in all, the latest version
is much better than the original.
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