Rewriting randomocity

So, I'm about halfway through my first pass through the first draft of The Sorcerer's Daughter.


I actually enjoyed rereading it, even though, as a first draft, there are a lot of things that actually don't make any sense because I changed my mind about some plot points along the way. That's one of the things I'm fixing through this pass.


There are a couple of things I need to add to it, a couple of beats I need to add. Maybe one or two that need to be deleted or at least moved around. On the whole, though, I think it tells the story I want to tell.


In other words, so far, so good. Still got a lot of work to do on it, but it's coming together.


Now that I'm at this point I feel like I can allow myself to entertain other projects, so I've been revisiting my idea for a TV series. I still don't want to give away too many details, except to say that it involves a series of stories and novels written by a science fiction icon that debuted in the 1950s. I've got some technical details I need to research, and I may as well go ahead and do that now. Normally, research is something I do later, after a first draft is completed--I try to tell the story first, and worry about the details later. However, in this case, since an important plot point revolves around some science that I'm sort of foggy on, I'll need to have a better understanding of it before I even get started.


Bummer. But I will have learned something. That's never a bad thing.


I'll probably spend some time putting together some stuff for that, too, over the next little while, just to give myself something to occupy my mind when I'm not obsessing over the novel. I've even sketched a  few ideas I had for certain characters who would appear in the thing, along with a motif that will become critical down the road.


So, that's my weekend--rewriting, researching, relaxing. My three "Rs".