Patience, Grasshopper

Toni and I have both hit moments of panic this week. We’re not sure how the story works. We don’t have the acts figured out. My antagonist disappears at the midpoint. How does person X know this about person Y? WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN AT THE END??????


Another good thing about collaboration: as long as everybody doesn’t panic at once, there’s always somebody there to talk you down. The big reminder here is that since both Toni and I are rabid rewriters, we just need to get this stuff down on the page. We’ve done an amazing amount of work in six weeks in the discovery alone, and the pages we’re writing are rough but they’re good. They’ll rewrite just fine. As for the rest of the book, we’ll find out a lot of that stuff as we write it. The first draft is discovery, too.


So it’s Take A Deep Breath time. Of course we don’t know exactly how the rest of the book is going to go. We’ll get there. Here, have a cookie.


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Krissie and Toni are arriving at Squalor on the Lake tomorrow, so there may be some blog silence while we whoop it up work on the book. But we will not be panicking. We will be at one with the universe of the book, or at least the parts of it we’re pretty sure about. Everything will fine.


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Published on November 06, 2014 07:23
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