Showing posts with label plot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plot. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2011

Move Me

Patience is a virtue
I don't have

Give me a plot that moves
A conversation that brings up something new
Or lose me

Make characters change
The world
Themselves
The inner workings of my brain
Or I'll move on

Grow
Or help me grow
Beyond the confines I am used to
Or I will finish up your book
(If I finish it at all)
And sigh
Well
That was
Okay
But
Nothing
Really
Happened.

Friday, November 5, 2010

A Little Update

I didn't make my word count yesterday, though I did manage enough to change the day from red to yellow (you can see it in the calendar today). I'm pretty happy, still, for I wrote until my eyes were crossing last night, just to get something in, and I'm in a pretty exciting place in the novel--not sure which way it's going to go.

Unfortunately, given my tendency to be plot driven, I'm going to spend the next few days mapping out an outline of sorts, just to make sure I know the overall sweep of the novel I'm trying to write in a month. I hate it when nothing happens, when characters sit around and talk (or in my case, since it's about a mermaid, swim around and talk), so I have some planning to do.

I wish you luck on all that you are working on. Use your weekend wisely! (I intend to.)