Write-a-thon, Day 3: Choking at the climax
Project: "The Monster Option"
Word Count: 517 new words / 4,459 words total
Those who are watching my word count closely may notice a strange discrepancy in my numbers tonight. That's because I tore out a whole scene and rewrote it, pointing the story in a slightly new direction. As often seems to happen when I write, the writing goes along pretty smoothly until I have to write the climactic scene and then . . . something happens to trip me up. I won't say that I choke (despite the title of this post), but I suddenly get nervous about the direction the story has taken and worry that it's too obvious or too facile--and that's what I'm dealing with right now. Is my character's choice the obvious one? If I throw in this last complication, is it too unlikely, too incredible? And this worry slows me down.
So that's what I'm dealing with right now: Will this ending work? If so how? And if not, how can I fix it? Maybe this is my editorial head getting in the way of my writing head. I'm not sure. I do know that I just have to keep pushing on. I'll find my way to it.
Writing is hard.
Word Count: 517 new words / 4,459 words total
Those who are watching my word count closely may notice a strange discrepancy in my numbers tonight. That's because I tore out a whole scene and rewrote it, pointing the story in a slightly new direction. As often seems to happen when I write, the writing goes along pretty smoothly until I have to write the climactic scene and then . . . something happens to trip me up. I won't say that I choke (despite the title of this post), but I suddenly get nervous about the direction the story has taken and worry that it's too obvious or too facile--and that's what I'm dealing with right now. Is my character's choice the obvious one? If I throw in this last complication, is it too unlikely, too incredible? And this worry slows me down.
So that's what I'm dealing with right now: Will this ending work? If so how? And if not, how can I fix it? Maybe this is my editorial head getting in the way of my writing head. I'm not sure. I do know that I just have to keep pushing on. I'll find my way to it.
Writing is hard.