16Aug/08
Working on the first workshop assignment
I've written over 500 words on the first workshop assignment (the target word count), and I like where it's going, but it needs a lot of work. I've managed to come up with a scene in which setting is important, but I'm having trouble getting all the scene description worked into the, admittedly slow, action.
Part of the problem is that I've got "tell a story" working against "write a scene that demonstrates that you can write setting description." This setting description may be adequate for the scene, but it's not adequate for the assignment. Which may mean I picked the wrong scene, but I'm going to keep working with it... it may not have enough setting description.