4/26/11

What Happened Last Thursday

What happened last Thursday:
  • Page 72/72 - Why did that character ever have an alias? I want to change that...
  • Page 68 - If I fix this discovery of the alias, I have to figure out why she didn't meet him while she was at his house.
  • Page 35: Why didn't she meet him while she was at his house? Why didn't she suspect something?
  • Page 25: Wait, if he was married to her, then she was their daughter, and Jake knew...
  • Page 15: Jake knew? Jake didn't know. Jake didn't know what? No, no, no, no...
I think...My plot imploded.

All weekend, my family has had to put with with this --->


Say hello to the stereotypical, clawing her hair out, emo, angsty, depressed, the-flow-of-my-plot-defines-my-well-being...writer.

I really do have random pieces of notebook paper scattered across my bedroom office. As well as several printed plotting failures outlines. My outline count has gone from two to six in the past few days.

I've got a bad feeling about this...

Help? Any help at all?

3 comments:

Anne Gallagher said...

I don't think I can offer any help but I can tell you, I'm right there with you. I feel your pain.

Chin up, hands on the keyboard, persevere. It's all we CAN do.

And don't worry. It will only get better.

Matthew MacNish said...

I've got no advice except to say that critique partners can help a lot. Sometimes you get so close to your own work that you can't see the words for the pages for the chapters.

Matthew MacNish said...

Also, I hope I've said this before, but if not: any house full of Star Wars and Tolkien is a castle as far as I'm concerned.