ext_14526 ([identity profile] cleolinda.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] cleolinda 2010-07-14 03:18 am (UTC)

Yeah. For some reason, I keep going back over the actual flow of a sentence--the rhythm of the words, I guess. So you get lots of little tweaks, like you see in the example. And with humor, unless the point of the line is that it's fussy and mumbly, it helps to tighten it up as much as you can. So I'm constantly passing over the scenes I've already done, as I go through trying to fill in other scenes, eyeballing them some more and trying to adjust things.

The example's not the most exciting thing in there or anything, but I remember the revisions very clearly. Some of the other scenes went through several different iterations, completely different lines switched in/out, much more drastic rewrites. And you could say, "Well, you don't have to put this much work into it, you could just dash something off and we'd be just as happy." But I can't--this is just how I think. So I kind of need people to know that before they start putting in requests, if that makes any sense.

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