This latest story continues to be a grind. I think it may be getting there, after a change of title, complete restructure and a shifting of the narrative from past tense to present. I cut the original text back to under 2000 words in the end, then brought it back up to 4000 or so, then took out more.
The second cutting of the text was different, though - I ruthlessly cut out every extraneous sentence and clause to distill the thing down to raw spirit. It currently sits around 3300 words. In many cases this involved replacing a paragraph with a single sentence. There is a lot more to do to get it to a complete first draft, though.
The part of my mind that is disinterested and analytic is observing how the initial idea that spurred the story has become background rather than the main action. A lot of the stuff that I have cut was exposition, and what I'm trying to do is leave that to hint and inference and write something else.
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