After roughly a week of not touching my book because I\u2019ve been too busy with other concerns, I\u2019m pleased with the scene that I just composed. Rather than advance the narrative from where I stopped, I instead got inspired to go back to insert one of the passages that I\u2019d planned to add during revision. I\u2019m happy with the sequence because it adds significantly more characterization to two characters and allowed me to insert two instances of significant foreshadowing: lines that I think are subtle enough to not stand out upon first reading but will be evident and significant upon a second read-through. I\u2019ve been a bit stuck on advancing the narrative for a week, though. I\u2019m at the beginning of a fight scene. I have individual elements of the battle in mind, but I don\u2019t have a good, visual sense of the connective transitions between moments. To provide analogy, I know that the fight will include an uppercut, a choke hold, and a suplex, but I don\u2019t know exactly how the characters will get from one move to the next. If I was composing a conventional fight, I could rely on impressionism and focus on kinetic tone rather than physical details. But this is an anime-style battle with extensive supernatural powers, and I think that such a scene requires a more detailed, visual description to be effective. Now, I\u2019m not trying to literally detail out every punch and kick, but I do want to create a strong, clear literal narration. So I\u2019ve largely been letting the manuscript sit idle while I allow scenarios to percolate in my mind in hopes that sudden inspiration will strike me. Such inspiration did occur to me, but it was about the passage I formerly mentioned, not about the fight scene that I\u2019m hoping to finish writing. I was actually nearly inspired by the very nicely choreographed duel between Leonmichelli and Nanami in Dog Days\u2019 episode 10, which I watched recently, but despite nice, creative ideas in that anime fight, the characters\u2019 characteristics and abilities are too unlike the characters and scenario I\u2019m writing for the anime to provide anything substantially useful to my composition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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