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Tue, Mar. 20th, 2018 09:58 pm
It's amazing* how quickly writing happens when I have a solid plan and outline and when I know what's happening. Chapter in a week, woo! I have less of a chapter-by-chapter outline now and more of just a lump of plot points, arranged in such a way that would be nice if they happen that way. Now that I have a laptop with a battery that charges again, I'd love to do the oh-so-cliché coffee shop writing thing some day. I feel like it'd have to be either a really crappy, wintry day where you curl up in the corner of the bench seat, or a really gorgeous day to sit outside with an iced coffee. At this stage it'll proooobably be more the crappy weather day. It's very suddenly autumn now, cool nights and nice-to-meh days. But I'm getting sidetracked.
Whenever I come back to writing after a massive, usually involuntary break, I feel like I'm giving my old friends a big hug. I've missed these people so much! It's been 11 months since I wrote anything, but the last time I wrote Nol was in October 2015, and he wasn't even the POV character for that chapter. Previous Nol chapter was a few weeks before that. That is a LONG time between drinks. Don't lose the knack for him, though. He's still in my head as one of the three strongest voices. God I love 'im :< I hope things work out for him somehow, I really do. He needs a hug. Maybe I should make Assili hug him in the next chapter. That'd really confuse him.
I theoretically have about nine chapters left, and there are nine months left in the year. Never that simple, of course, but wouldn't it be nice? If no other characters throw spanners in the works and make me replot this thing again. I swear this is why Gold has been taking so long. The other two books didn't require such heavy replotting halfway through. There were some minor adjustments, but no bombshells I didn't see coming from the beginning. I keep saying it, but I can't wait until I've finished and can start on the rewrite. SO MUCH will suddenly make sense. I'll be able to cut swathes of useless threads away that end up going nowhere or contradicting things. Slip in foreshadowing and details about upcoming people and things and events. Make things make sense as they happen. Everything feels like such a clusterfuck right now--I started this current iteration in 2007 after three false starts, and if I knew how this thing was going to end I probably would've restarted a dozen more times before now, too. But I need to get to the end before I know what it is.
Am I weird for not knowing how it ends? I have ideas and theories, I know a few things that aregoing likely to come into play, but I mean geeze, the plot of Gold has changed so drastically since I first wrote the outline that I'm loathe to plan anything so far down the track as the end. When I get started on Steel, then I'll know where the end is. I just want Gold DONE so I can finally get to it. This is the year. I'll make damn sure of it.
* it's not
Whenever I come back to writing after a massive, usually involuntary break, I feel like I'm giving my old friends a big hug. I've missed these people so much! It's been 11 months since I wrote anything, but the last time I wrote Nol was in October 2015, and he wasn't even the POV character for that chapter. Previous Nol chapter was a few weeks before that. That is a LONG time between drinks. Don't lose the knack for him, though. He's still in my head as one of the three strongest voices. God I love 'im :< I hope things work out for him somehow, I really do. He needs a hug. Maybe I should make Assili hug him in the next chapter. That'd really confuse him.
I theoretically have about nine chapters left, and there are nine months left in the year. Never that simple, of course, but wouldn't it be nice? If no other characters throw spanners in the works and make me replot this thing again. I swear this is why Gold has been taking so long. The other two books didn't require such heavy replotting halfway through. There were some minor adjustments, but no bombshells I didn't see coming from the beginning. I keep saying it, but I can't wait until I've finished and can start on the rewrite. SO MUCH will suddenly make sense. I'll be able to cut swathes of useless threads away that end up going nowhere or contradicting things. Slip in foreshadowing and details about upcoming people and things and events. Make things make sense as they happen. Everything feels like such a clusterfuck right now--I started this current iteration in 2007 after three false starts, and if I knew how this thing was going to end I probably would've restarted a dozen more times before now, too. But I need to get to the end before I know what it is.
Am I weird for not knowing how it ends? I have ideas and theories, I know a few things that are
* it's not