I'm discovering that, even though this Political Science class is time consuming what with all the mind-numbingly boring reading about primary election statistics, I'm actually getting more work done on the book! I've got a few minutes after work and before class, then a few minutes sitting in the classroom waiting to start, then an intermission - it's a 2 hour and 15 min class TWICE a week - and I just scribble. The next day I type it up and of course add to it without effort.
Last night I blocked out the rest of chapter eight, came up with a cool idea for chapter nine, and THEN figured out how to get a gun for Kelsey and I think it's going to be a big laugh moment in the book. Disgusting, but funny. *g*
I haven't told Kate this yet, but I've completely left the outline and am just going with wherever the characters take me - mostly, not entirely. I know I still want them to meet Reverend Spevak, but I'm not going to describe his backstory, how he survives the comet (but, in a nutshell, he's doing a PR visit to a hospital, sees the same thing on tv that Parker sees, locks his goons out in the hallway and steals oxygen from a senior citizen), but he's not a nice guy and he's going to test Parker and Kelsey's trust in each other.
I made sure to read Kate's chapter six this morning and was completely mezmerized. Really good stuff, and I'm enjoying it enormously.
The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.
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LOL -- so you left the outline! Not criminal, after all. You seem to have a good enough sense of the trajectory to stay on track. If you feel off-track ever, sit down with the outline and revise it. That may well help -- with luck, you won't need to do that because the story is so alive.
Thanks for the kind comments -- they are the drops of water in this desert work we do.
The story is "so alive", eh? Good review for a zombie novel, can I quote it on the dust jacket? *laugh*
I know that one of the problems I have with characterization is that they tend to be as passionless as me, and too logical - like they're a writer with all kinds of time to figure out what to do rather than real people trapped in a desperate situation. So, I ended up veering away from the script to try and avoid that Spock-ness.
I'm glad that's working. *g*
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