Sometimes I write the first couple of paragraphs to a story and think, "This sounds REALLY good...now if only I could end it here before I keep going and ruin it."
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Sometimes I write the first couple of paragraphs to a story and think, "This sounds REALLY good...now if only I could end it here before I keep going and ruin it."
Sometimes I write the first couple of paragraphs to a story and think, "This sounds REALLY good...now if only I could end it here before I keep going and ruin it."
I just reached the last line of my 200-pages A5 notepad. That's some sort of milestone, right?
Yes. Exactly the same one. Pukka-Pad, A5, lined notebook. 200 pages, four of which I've already covered in chicken-scratches!Yes, and it's the best thing about writing longhand.
Do you have another notebook exactly the same lined up?
Received critique that my villain is amazing but my hero isn't as well developed. So eventually decided to add a son to the story, to play on the hero's emotions and develop him. I'm quite excited to write that in.
The ongoing problem. I could - and do - follow my guys around putting their interesting lives on paper (or computer screen), but I cannot sort out what needs to be there and what doesn't. I never know where to go next, so I get stuck, over and over and over again.
I'mprocrastithinking carefully about how many VP characters I can use before I push things too far. I've got two main VP characters and four subsidiary VP characters who are important to the action. (One of those is killed in the first 1,500 words.)
Hmm...I'll have toprocrasthink a bit more.