Weighed in the balance and found wanting
Apr. 16th, 2006 02:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbWhat it means to me to be awake and writing at not-quite 0300 on a Sunday morning.
Right. Writing. I've reached a point in the story - maybe 30,000 words, maybe 40K, I don't know, I'm writing out by hand - anyway, I've reached a point at which my brain is trying to convince me is Nearly! Finished!
Except it's not. I mean, I've got the two main characters to the city I've been pointing them towards for I-don't-know-how-many words. They don't know who their allies are, the last guy who tried to help them contracted a bad case of the Dead, and certain unknown persons also want them dead, or (one of them, at least) married off to a slimeball, not controlling her own inheritance. Also, there is a dragon in here somewhere. It's been a bad dragon until lately: it's only just started to give me hints as to What The Hell it's doing in my novel. No, dragons weren't part of the Plan. Then again, the Plan wasn't really a Plan, as such. Just... guidelines.
Here, pretty dragon. Come to writer. Writer will feed you nice, juicy characters; sure, fine, coming right up. All you have to do is give me a little more to go on...
Dragons. Worse than cats.
Okay, I know I'm not Nearly! Finished! At best I'm 1/3! Finished! (which doesn't feel nearly so good), and I'm starting to wonder whether I need a third main-ish POV character (or fourth, 'cause I killed off the only bloke who had a real speaking part) to help me keep all these wandering plots straight.
For now, I plough on. Page 79! Is half written! Tomorrow sees page 80 meet its fate, and they go ashore in The City, to meet...
...um...
::looks around for spare characters::
:;dusts characters left at page 20 off::
... to meet Old Friends and New Enemies!
Right. Enough of this waffle. Sleep time for me.
Right. Writing. I've reached a point in the story - maybe 30,000 words, maybe 40K, I don't know, I'm writing out by hand - anyway, I've reached a point at which my brain is trying to convince me is Nearly! Finished!
Except it's not. I mean, I've got the two main characters to the city I've been pointing them towards for I-don't-know-how-many words. They don't know who their allies are, the last guy who tried to help them contracted a bad case of the Dead, and certain unknown persons also want them dead, or (one of them, at least) married off to a slimeball, not controlling her own inheritance. Also, there is a dragon in here somewhere. It's been a bad dragon until lately: it's only just started to give me hints as to What The Hell it's doing in my novel. No, dragons weren't part of the Plan. Then again, the Plan wasn't really a Plan, as such. Just... guidelines.
Here, pretty dragon. Come to writer. Writer will feed you nice, juicy characters; sure, fine, coming right up. All you have to do is give me a little more to go on...
Dragons. Worse than cats.
Okay, I know I'm not Nearly! Finished! At best I'm 1/3! Finished! (which doesn't feel nearly so good), and I'm starting to wonder whether I need a third main-ish POV character (or fourth, 'cause I killed off the only bloke who had a real speaking part) to help me keep all these wandering plots straight.
For now, I plough on. Page 79! Is half written! Tomorrow sees page 80 meet its fate, and they go ashore in The City, to meet...
...um...
::looks around for spare characters::
:;dusts characters left at page 20 off::
... to meet Old Friends and New Enemies!
Right. Enough of this waffle. Sleep time for me.
