#writersCoffeeClub 5/2: Have you had an idea halfway or more through a project that required extensive rewriting of what you've already done?
This is NORMAL for novel-sized projects! I'm 85% of the way into a manuscript right now. The original plan was a Frederick Forsyth style tribute to "Day of the Jackal", but halfway through it was carjacked and taken for a joy ride by The Abominable Doctor Phibes.
Bonus extra: it's set in an AU 2015 and concerns the assassination of Queen Elizabeth II ...
@cstross When it happens, do you make the change starting where you are and then go back and fix the first part of the project later, or immediately rewrite it from the beginning to incorporate the change?
@pretensesoup I write linearly but edit continuously throughout the process of writing, so I can break off midway through a scene to adjust an earlier one to lay the trail of breadcrumbs, then continue. (I can't keep writing if I know there's something earlier that needs fixing. Personal quirk.)
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