Yeah, I've been away, and I miss communing with this anonymous blog. Spent yesterday on the couch watching one after the other of Star Gate SG:1 season 9, which is much better than I expected. Amanda Tapping is pregnant enough they put her in XXLarge fatigues, which is hilarious, and the new guy is Ben Browder, who is a nice substitute for Richard Dean Anderson, and even the Ever Boring Jaffa didn't grate much on my nerves.
My laptop is being restructured, and there's no way I was going to sit upright in front of the desktop, so basically I *thought* about the story, and came up with something much better than the ending I had originally done. For one thing, my events are occuring at a much slower rate than the original outline would allow. That's okay with zombies, though, right? It can be a What Happens For The First Few Hours, or go on for weeks like Dawn of the Dead.
Also, my original ending was lame. *g*
The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.
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Good to have you back!
Thinking is good, but even some pencil work is better than thinking alone (she says, holding the ruler in her hand and waving it menacingly).
It's not unusual for the actual story to vary greatly from the projected pace of the outline. Sometimes it even goes faster (i.e. "ten years passed"). But trying out the arc and the ending before the actual writing should be helping expose the weaknesses -- that's what it's for.
Yes ma'am, she says, hanging her head in shame. I should have gotten out my nifty keen bowling pencil.
I think the outline and the actual story don't mesh was that I wrote the outline thinking I've be writing "short" like I always used to - before this newfound mass of words that keep flowing out.
Duh. Can you tell I'm too busy to even type understandable sentences? Sheesh.
S'all right. We all have that at least some of the time.
Keep those bowling pencils at hand!
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