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Plot Conundrum
Apr. 15th, 2007 03:27 pmI'm still having trouble writing, so rather than indulging in another session of incoherent sobbing, let me think out loud for a moment.
I have two possible courses of action that will affect three different plot threads, and I really need to stop delaying the moment I choose one. (The fourth plot thread continues to meander around on the other side of the desert without reference to any of the rest.) Reaching the half-way point of a 50K story having only just finished the character and problem introductions was not so bad; reaching the half way point of a 75K story still without having really moved on from there is not so good. Don't worry: they're proper, plotty character introductions, where Important Stuff Happens and People Try To Reach Their Overall Goals, not finishing five character biographies of enormousness and then pondering the start of the actual story. Introductions probably isn't the right word, but I'm having trouble describing the feeling of From Now On (Or More Likely About Ten Thousand Words Ago) It Must Engage A Higher Gear.
In any case, I think this is the root of the problems I've been having, so it's time for me to make a choice.
( Plotty Alphabet Puzzle Within )
Which makes things rather obvious, all in all. The only reasons I'm avoiding possibility number two are that I don't know how to make it happen, and the reasons against possibility number one are much more deeply story related. Possibility two it is, then. Best thing about writing, really: although I've been writing this story in order to date, I don't actually need to keep doing so, as long as I'm sure where I'm taking it is the right direction.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for helping me out on that one.
Edit: I did mention that, right? I'm at the half way point? I've actually just passed 40,000 words pretty much exactly one day ahead of schedule. Whoooooo! *showers self in confetti*
I have two possible courses of action that will affect three different plot threads, and I really need to stop delaying the moment I choose one. (The fourth plot thread continues to meander around on the other side of the desert without reference to any of the rest.) Reaching the half-way point of a 50K story having only just finished the character and problem introductions was not so bad; reaching the half way point of a 75K story still without having really moved on from there is not so good. Don't worry: they're proper, plotty character introductions, where Important Stuff Happens and People Try To Reach Their Overall Goals, not finishing five character biographies of enormousness and then pondering the start of the actual story. Introductions probably isn't the right word, but I'm having trouble describing the feeling of From Now On (Or More Likely About Ten Thousand Words Ago) It Must Engage A Higher Gear.
In any case, I think this is the root of the problems I've been having, so it's time for me to make a choice.
( Plotty Alphabet Puzzle Within )
Which makes things rather obvious, all in all. The only reasons I'm avoiding possibility number two are that I don't know how to make it happen, and the reasons against possibility number one are much more deeply story related. Possibility two it is, then. Best thing about writing, really: although I've been writing this story in order to date, I don't actually need to keep doing so, as long as I'm sure where I'm taking it is the right direction.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for helping me out on that one.
Edit: I did mention that, right? I'm at the half way point? I've actually just passed 40,000 words pretty much exactly one day ahead of schedule. Whoooooo! *showers self in confetti*
