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I’m pretty sure what I’m doing with my Assignment Day editing is not something they teach you to do in Creative Writing, especially when you have a book that’s almost ready to publish. And I took Creative Writing back in my college days, so I should know better. What is it, you ask? I added a new character. A minor one, but definitely not in the previous versions of the book. And now for the follow-up question: why? Remember a couple of posts ago where I said I felt the book relied too much on exposition? Sometimes that’s fine, because the reader wants to know what the narrator is thinking. Plus, as a writer I need to build a believable world, and explaining how that world works is essential. However, I found in this book that there are plenty of moments where the exposition could be changed to a conversation. The problem was that the main character was by himself in those times. Too often, in fact. And I didn’t want him talking to himself since that’d just be weird. Hence, a new character. That’s the easy part. Making those expositions into conversation without making it seem like I took expositions and made them into conversations is the hard part. We don’t make expositions to our friends about the evolution of AI, for example. I feel like I’m reverting back toward a first draft of the book with these changes, but that’s okay. The end product should turn out a lot better for it.