Mar
1

New Projects and Such

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*yawns*. Holy crap, I’m tired, Batman. But I’m somewhat back on track with my WiP. I pretty much took the day off from writing yesterday, enjoyed hanging out with the family and really didn’t think much about it. Well, I had my notebook and at one point I was jotting down potential ways of working it, but that’s about it. I may have figured it out so I don’t think I’ll have to toss out *too* much of what I had written this past week. In the meantime, I decided it might not be a bad idea to have a smaller side project to play with when I get stuck like this. A one-shot, if you will. Hopefully horribly smutty with an uncomplicated plot. Or at least uncomplicated compared to the one I’m currently entrenched in. So I pulled out my trusty Mindola cards this afternoon and plotted(!) out a… Read more
Feb
28

Mini Plot Rant

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Ha ha ha – figures – I write about plotting vs pantstering and my muse comes back and decides to bite me in the ass. I’ve been cruising along ok until now and the plot has taken a twist that I didn’t expect. The scene I’m writing now was supposed to be a minor plot point – only it’s completely taken over the chapter – which is ok, but not really what I had in mind. I’ve got characters coming in from all over the place, many of which are not being very consistent to how they were in earlier chapters. So then I have to wonder, am I trying to force this thing to happen and the characters are fighting me on it? Or is it that *I’m* the one fighting it? Either way, it sucks. I only wrote 334 words last night before I gave up in disgust.… Read more