6 Andor

In the sixth episode, I get excited about how good the tv show Andor is and dig into what makes it work so very well.

I tried a new editing effect called “truncate silence” because someone is a thoughtful pauser, but it ended up cutting the quieter ends off some words. I apologize! It also means everything runs a lot faster and is all quite! exciting!

This is a tv show in which every event is tied inextricably to the next event. It’s so brilliant that it makes me want to go lie down and despair of writing anything that tight and good.

However, I’m about 55,000 words into this novel draft by now, bonkers to say that, and a frantic shadow of my former self. Writing, man.

So I’m wrestling with timelines and the amazing cascade of events that Andor pulls off and trying to figure out whether I can do that too, given that I’m running three different timelines. Oh my head. It’ll all be fine in the end. Drafts are drafts.

Sacred cheese of life!