If you’re going to completely change the climax and ending of your book, you might want to write it first, and then go back and make the necessary rewrites to the rest of the novel. I’m just saying . . .
Justine Larbalestier
The various writings of Justine Larbalestier
Really? I’d go hind-side first. Fix it up to the point of climax, then write(right?) it. My worry being what if I neglect to fix an important point? Re-mold the jar before you form the lid, I’d say.
You know, hearing someone else say exactly what your intuition has been telling you is strangely liberating. Thanks.
Corey: Here’s what happened. I went through fixing up the stuff before the climax, then I started writing the climax, which didn’t come out at all how I figured and it meant I now have to change everything all over again. It would have be easier and smarter to nail the climax and end of the book first, and then, and only then, go through and do all the resulting rewrites.
Liz: Isn’t it? I’m reading Samuel R. Delany’s About Writing and keep having that very experience!
Oh I see, well then that makes perfect sense =)
I shall have to tell my students, who never believe me about how much time they’re losing
by checking their spelling before they’ve considered the (in)substance of their argument. 🙂