On Many Subjects

I wrote only 1200 words this morning, but it is the climax of the story and so very important. It is time to add in the plot twist... the one people aren't expecting.

Over the weekend, I started the ending, but it wasn't working the way I had thought it should. I woke up at about 3:30 this morning and started thinking about what should happen at the end of the story, got up at 5:00 because I realized that sleep wasn't going to happen, and deleted almost 2000 words of dreck. Well, I don't actually delete anything, I move it to another file because occasionally, I can go back and grab peices of conversations or descriptions.

That doesn't happen too often becasuse I tend to write in a linear fashion. Chronologically. From the first day to the last. But, just in case, I don't delete.

What I am writing now, is the first, very rough and very unpolished draft. It is more like a very detailed outline because when I start the process of editing, the piece swells in size to nearly twice what it started out.

Editing is the fun part.

Right now, I have a reader... a woman who reads the story as I write it and acts as a cheerleader, of sorts. We talk about things going on in the story and I always listen to her suggestions. For me this is necessary because I get so wrapped up in the story and the characters that I loose perspective.