Theo Jansen Strandbeest
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There comes a stage in writing a novel when you need to revisit the whole thing, starting at the beginning and working your way right through to the end, looking for inconsistencies, contradictions, lumps, bumps and loose threads. Novels are complicated beasts full of interwoven filaments that can easily break or tangle or just trail off randomly. It doesn't take much to make something that complex not run smoothly. Grind to a halt. Maybe even fall flat on its face ...
Which is what we hope for our novels too, right?
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Ha! - Yes!
And I just love those strandbeests.
Complicated beasts indeed. Novels, that is. For me, the hardest stage is the third draft. (I usually write 4.)That's when I know the whole story, but when I also see annoying inconsistencies, gaps in logic, paragraphs in the wrong place.... everything I missed in the earlier drafts, when all I was interested in was just getting something down on paper. Straightening everything out is WORK!
Thank you for revealing their name. The Strandbeests are such wonderful structures.
Is it walking or teetering?
Nevertheless the structures do keep going, and with a grace about them too, so good wishes anyone keeping their Wordbeest tettering along today.
Wonderful, Joan. Makes me feel somewhat ashamed of werriting about novel structure!
What amazing sculptures! I am trying to sort out a novel structure and feel rather overwhelmed, so I must remember that I have made stories move along before, and I can again!
Thanks everybody, and may all your structures walk on the wind!
Magical.
These are wonderful, Joan! Thank you!
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