{"id":38606,"date":"2020-11-19T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38606"},"modified":"2020-11-09T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T06:54:28","slug":"o-frabjous-day-reprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/11\/19\/o-frabjous-day-reprised\/","title":{"rendered":"“O Frabjous Day” Reprised"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Two weeks back, I talked about some of the “frabjous” moments in the writing life<\/a>, such as when (unexpectedly at the time) I returned to an unsatisfactory chapter ending expecting to do much remedial work, then found I could resolve the difficulty by the simple expedient of removing the final paragraph.<\/p>\n

Problem solved — because the preceding paragraph did all that was required. “O frabjous day”, indeed. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Endings often present challenges in the writing process, so only a short time previously, when celebrating another moment-of-frabjous via Twitter, the celebration also pertained to an ending. In that case, I ended a w.i.p. chapter thinking I still had another chapter to write, in order to reach my intended destination for the section. Here’s what happened, per the tweets:<\/p>\n

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That “vorpal keyboard” does it again \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

I love those mornings when I wake up with an alternative ending ‘download’ to last night’s completed chapter. In this case, I believe a ‘better, stronger’, crisper finish. Not ‘faster’ tho’ given rewrite, however crisp… \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning’s revised chapter ending inspiration for <\/span>#TheWallOfNight<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span> #4 WIP not only delivered a better outcome in situ, but has probably saved me an additional chapter in manuscript terms. So all hail those overnight muse interventions. \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, indeed, to those muses — definitely delivering another “O frabjous day” moment.<\/p>\n

(And no — canna do without the emoji action in m’tweets, #justsayin’ )<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

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