I’ve powered through the rewrites; 2,500 words to go before I’m back to 24k. It feels great. I know the story is going in the right direction now, and all the characters are behaving beautifully. That makes writing a pleasure instead of a chore. I should learn to trust my senses, instead of barrelling on when I feel something is wrong. I would have saved myself a lot of rewriting. Oh well!
I wrote the end of a chapter last night where MC1 made a sensible decision and walked away from a potentially fatal situation. But it’s been running through my foggy, sluggish mind all night, and I think I may have to reverse that decision, and send him in regardless.
I don’t know what will happen. It may derail my plot significantly. But on reflection I just can’t play it safe here. I have to let him have his head, regardless of the consequences. I don’t know what the outcome will be.
But then that’s half the fun. See, Joe? I have found the joy again. Or maybe I just write better when medicated. Either way, when the small man goes to bed and the kitchen is tidied, I practically run to the table with my cuppa and a bikkie, ready and willing to write.
10 Comments
June 20, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Good job! So proud!
June 21, 2009 at 12:57 am
I agree with letting the characters make their own decisions (sometimes), even if it derails your plans for them. I’m sure it will work out.
June 21, 2009 at 5:43 am
Do what it wants.
I’m so proud of you. :-)))))
(and sending you lots of get better vibes),
your miserable Antibiotics Anonymous co-member
June 22, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Your Aussie slang is ridiculous. “cuppa” = cup of tea, I believe, and “bikkie” = biscuit, which means cookie, which does not go with tea at all. I find your entire culture silly and in need of energetic editing.
June 22, 2009 at 9:42 pm
*Tsk* There’s always some critic out there who has issues with your worldbuilding…
June 25, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Tea is a weak drink that simply cannot support the rigorous demands of washing cookie/biscuit crumbs out of one’s mouth. It is a scientific fact.
More importantly, if you call cookies “biscuits” then what do you call proper biscuits?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit#Biscuits_in_North_American_usage
June 25, 2009 at 9:04 pm
That’s not a biscuit, darling, that’s a scone.
And you say WE’RE weird. Can’t even get your baked goods straight. Those things you call muffins? They’re cupcakes. Muffins are flat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin
June 25, 2009 at 9:19 pm
My theory is most baked goods were renamed in a fit of pique after the Revolution. Probably the same time when it was decided that coffee would be the national beverage (blyuck!).
And scones are too sweet to be proper biscuits. That based on the plain baking mix sold by World Market. (I will concede to the possibility of added sugar since the rest of the world in convinced Americans are all sugar addicts already.)
Since I never could get the dough to drop off the spoon right, I usually bake them in my cupcake pan, which I’m finding way too funny in light of this thread. The package instructions for loaf baking never worked for me either–the center never cooked. Cupcake-shaped scones typically came out well.
June 26, 2009 at 3:25 am
Our biscuits are certainly not your scones! I have eaten scones, and they are no biscuits! Biscuits are hardy yet fluffy, buttery and crispy and flakey, and stand proudly next to fried chicken. Biscuits require shortening!
Scones are thick and chewy and sweet and wrongwrongwrong. Which is why we keep ours in Europe.
Muffins are not cupcakes. Muffins are not sweet and delicious, they are hardy couriers of butter and jam and other fruity things. Cupcakes are sweet and moist and necessarily chocolate (in my house). And according to Wikipedia, only YOUR muffins are flat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin
Huzzah! Take that!
June 23, 2009 at 1:24 am
It takes a while to figure out when something isn’t working and you should stop and have a rethink compared to resistance monster got scared and throws a block in your way you need to hack through.
But I’m all for letting the characters have their way. At least when it doesn’t work, I have someone else to blame. :D