AUGH

Bartholomew · Oct 16, 2006

I was writing this morning--and in my flurry (I was on a roll) I accidentally skipped an important scene where a certain character reappears. Well, this wouldn't be a problem... except he was intergal to the next scene (which I skipped to) and I, not immediately detecting this problem, wrote him out of the scene.

And now I have to scratch out seventeen pages so I can rewrite it. Again. AUGH!!!

KTC · Oct 16, 2006

I do that too. I hate it when that happens. AUGH is right!

TwentyFour · Oct 16, 2006

You can't go back and edit him in?

AdamH · Oct 16, 2006

I'm guilty of this too. No worries. Just go back and add the character back in. Like what Jo said, "you can't go back and edit him in?"

If you need to rewrite it, so be it. Just chalk it up to experience and carry on.

PeeDee · Oct 16, 2006

I did this with the main character of my last novel. I got to the scenes where he was supposed to appear, I forgot to make him APPEAR, and I just kept going.

I decided that obviously he wasn't that interesting, so I left the main character out and kept on writing the disposable character I'd started with. He turned out better than anyone else would have.

AUGH

Bartholomew

Comic guy

KTC

Stand in the Place Where You Live

TwentyFour

practical experience, FTW

AdamH

Pumped Up Kicks

PeeDee

Where's my tea, please...?