{"id":1090,"date":"2010-03-18T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2010-03-18T00:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T05:30:52","slug":"workin-the-new-scene-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/1090","title":{"rendered":"Workin&#8217; the new scene in Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just about done with the next new scene in Secret.\u00a0 This one serves several purposes.\u00a0 First, it deals with Lynn feeling a bit cheated about setting up a date in a lot of detail, and then cutting away from it to afterward in the next scene.\u00a0 It also puts a little more Earth Day flavor into the mix, strengthening the theme in a direct fashion, which she felt was weak in the story.\u00a0 There&#8217;s more, but babbling about it would give away too much of the plot *laugh*<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, all of the new scenes are for the express purpose of pumping up elements that she felt were weak in the story, and\/or replacing important plot points that originally involved other family members &#8212; whom I&#8217;m relegating to a much lesser role in the tale.<\/p>\n<p>After that is tweaking a couple of scenes and cutting one with Steve and Gary out of the story completely.\u00a0 As much as I loved the interaction in that scene, Lynn&#8217;s right that there are just too many characters to handle.<\/p>\n<p>I was\u00a0getting that feeling in SOTM, too.\u00a0 Part of what&#8217;s got me moving again is that I was in just the right place to put a lot of characters in that story sort of behind the curtain for a while, letting me focus a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>But, back to Secret.\u00a0 I think that I only have one new scene that I&#8217;ll need to add after this one, mainly for character development of my female lead.\u00a0 Everything else will involve tweaking existing scenes.\u00a0 Not sure that I&#8217;ll have it done in ten days for the opening of the contest, but I&#8217;m fairly confident that it will be finished in time to enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just about done with the next new scene in Secret.\u00a0 This one serves several purposes.\u00a0 First, it deals with Lynn feeling a bit cheated about setting up a date in a lot of detail, and then cutting away from it to afterward in the next scene.\u00a0 It also puts a little more Earth Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}