Deleted Scenes
I just posed another deleted scene on the new Excisions page: the original Rojer introduction chapter.
The scene is not my best work, which is why it was cut, but I learned a LOT from the experience, mainly about how it’s sometimes necessary to demand more of yourself than others do. I think budding writers might find the introduction and “why it was cut” sections of the new post interesting.
I don’t know if anyone really cares about these deleted scenes but me, but I’m having a blast writing about them. The Painted Man/Warded Man was a labor of love, and I learn a lot by looking back and reflecting on the mistakes I made along the way and how (for better or worse) I corrected them. I only have a handful of friends who are writers, and I really enjoy talking about the craft side of the process, even if I’m only talking to myself in some ways. I expect this is pretty dry stuff for a lot of people.
I haven’t figured out how to enable comments on the Excisions page yet, and the reader Forum we’re planning for the site is in its code infancy, but if anyone is interested and wants to talk a little shop about any of the deleted scenes, we can do it in the comment thread to this post. There’s a couple of really good scenes coming, along with a lot of little dots and dashes that I either learned something from or think are worth a glance.
Hmm the Rojer link isn’t working for me, all I get is a few lines of HTML.
Hrm. The link works for me. What browser are you using? Can you get to it by just using this URL?
https://www.petervbrett.com/excisions/original-rojer-intro/
Ugh. I see what you mean. If you are in Firefox, it loads fine, but in IE, it’s a big code mess.
I’ll try and fix it today.
Okay, I figured it out. I had typed the introduction in MSWord, and then pasted it into the page, which introduced a ton of extra (and unnecessary) code that Firefox understood but IE didn’t. I cut all the additional code, and it seems to work in both browsers now. Lesson learned about cutting and pasting. Convert to plain text first.
Wow, I’m actually quite impressed with myself for fixing that without having to cry for help…
Lol, sorry to cause you so much trouble, but thanks 🙂
I do remember liking the cut version, but I’m not sure I ever got to read the final printed scene. I’ll have to check it out again and see for certain which I like “better.”
I like the Excisions section a lot. Great idea.
I remember having a long discussion with you after you read the revised version where you said I had ruined the “bohemian lifestyle” Rojer had before, whatever that means.
I don’t remember that, so maybe i was drunk.