I'm 5 pages away from 60 consecutive pages!
Which is the magic page number required for my thesis.
And somewhere it's utterly annoying that I have 150 pages of the entire book and only now have 60 consecutive pages in the beginning. I had the ending and any number of key scenes anywhere and everywhere, prologue, epilogue, what have you.
I think I have decided to have what is my final heroes-return-and-there-is-great-celebration scene be not in this book, but in the last one. Something happens to the antagonist (he gets a better name, for starters) in the end, but he can't die, because Prea still doesn't have her powers back at the end of this book.
My problem here is - and I wish I had A here to bounce ideas off of and talk me though it - that I started with a certain theme in the first book and I can't yet quite see my way clear through the second one. Prea has lost her powers. So why, how? Because of BadGuy leeching them away? Because he still has them in his new state? Or because - truer to the theme of the first book - there's some emotional hoopla she has to go through? Or both?
The emotional thing works well in the first one on many levels. It's appropriate, fitting and not corny at all, I think, and important too. I just have to find a way to work it into the second one. And really, I shouldn't be worried about Eclipse at this point, because I'm not even done with Sun Rising. But I feel I need to keep it in some part of my mind because I want the stories to have the same feel and resonance to them.
But now I need to step away from the laptop, have some dinner and come back to writing, hopefully refreshed if not inspired.
And somewhere it's utterly annoying that I have 150 pages of the entire book and only now have 60 consecutive pages in the beginning. I had the ending and any number of key scenes anywhere and everywhere, prologue, epilogue, what have you.
I think I have decided to have what is my final heroes-return-and-there-is-great-celebration scene be not in this book, but in the last one. Something happens to the antagonist (he gets a better name, for starters) in the end, but he can't die, because Prea still doesn't have her powers back at the end of this book.
My problem here is - and I wish I had A here to bounce ideas off of and talk me though it - that I started with a certain theme in the first book and I can't yet quite see my way clear through the second one. Prea has lost her powers. So why, how? Because of BadGuy leeching them away? Because he still has them in his new state? Or because - truer to the theme of the first book - there's some emotional hoopla she has to go through? Or both?
The emotional thing works well in the first one on many levels. It's appropriate, fitting and not corny at all, I think, and important too. I just have to find a way to work it into the second one. And really, I shouldn't be worried about Eclipse at this point, because I'm not even done with Sun Rising. But I feel I need to keep it in some part of my mind because I want the stories to have the same feel and resonance to them.
But now I need to step away from the laptop, have some dinner and come back to writing, hopefully refreshed if not inspired.