Comments on: What’s the hardest part of a novel to write? https://glendalarke.com/2006/02/whats-hardest-part-of-novel-to-write/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/02/whats-hardest-part-of-novel-to-write/#comment-25468 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:15:00 +0000 #comment-25468 Surely that’s too much info.. I mean you can make a reference to it, but then you don’t really want to describe it, right ? 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/02/whats-hardest-part-of-novel-to-write/#comment-25467 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:04:00 +0000 #comment-25467 As to your original question …

I’d answer, All of it!!!! *gg*

But you’re right, the whole getting them out the door stuff is boggling. Deciding the best way to get characters from A to C without describing every last tedious detail yet not confusing them … aieee!

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/02/whats-hardest-part-of-novel-to-write/#comment-25466 Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:10:00 +0000 #comment-25466 The routine, yes! How did they feed the horses on that journey? Themselves? A recent problem from the Mirage Makers – what do you do about the toilet arrangements of hundreds of hundreds of men hiding up in an aqueduct? Do you not mention it? (And have the reader muttering about it under their breath?) Or describe the solution in detail? (When really the reader doesn’t want to know?)Ah, the literary problems one has with the mundane!

]]> By: Bernita https://glendalarke.com/2006/02/whats-hardest-part-of-novel-to-write/#comment-25465 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:43:00 +0000 #comment-25465 Tedious.
Irritating.
Frustrating.
Yup.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/02/whats-hardest-part-of-novel-to-write/#comment-25464 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:26:00 +0000 #comment-25464 It’s the ROUTINE. The routine runs our days, and it is perfectly acceptaable that it will run our characters’ days too – they have to eat, they have to sleep, unless they are ALL lost princesses awaiting a return to the throne they supposedly work for a living and have jobs – all of which is daily ROUTINE. Adventure happens around it. But finding a road through it without bogging down… is not trivial.

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