All this story sludge is getting in the way of the main event.
Exactly. I would have started hacking away at GOF, cutting out 9/10ths of the stuff about house elf liberation and trimming away some of the fat around the meaty parts of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. (You don't even want to know what OotP would have looked like if I'd been able to get my hands on an early draft.)
It's lovely that she's building a world from the ground up, but when all is said and done you can't lose sight of the main goal of the story. And some of her detours have left her perilously close to doing so at times.
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Date: 2005-11-15 07:32 pm (UTC)Exactly. I would have started hacking away at GOF, cutting out 9/10ths of the stuff about house elf liberation and trimming away some of the fat around the meaty parts of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. (You don't even want to know what OotP would have looked like if I'd been able to get my hands on an early draft.)
It's lovely that she's building a world from the ground up, but when all is said and done you can't lose sight of the main goal of the story. And some of her detours have left her perilously close to doing so at times.