bookkeeping

[truepenny]

725 words yesterday. Falling short of my quota.

But it got me out of that abhorrent scene wherein I have been stuck since mid-October. And I strewed my bits of paper* across the floor and figured out what has to happen next. Sort of.

If I can get through this extremely dense tangle of plot, I can start to move into the endgame, where my problems will at least be different. But this tangle of plot is proving to be like bindweed crossed with a hydra. The more I struggle, the more it ensnares me, and the more heads it seems to have.

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* This book has gotten so complicated that I can't keep all of it in my head at once. So I have a stash of bits of paper with important plot points and thematic things written on them and periodically I lay them out and figure out which bits fit with which other bits and how that actually translates into what I'm writing. I'd like to have a better system, but mostly I'm just grateful I have a workable one. Even if it does make my feelings of resemblance to Mr Earbrass particularly strong.

Comments

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Yay for unstuck.

Even if it does make my feelings of resemblance to Mr Earbrass particularly strong. I'm still waiting for my characters to accost me on the stairs. Or to shove me down a flight, more likely.

[larryhammer]

I haven't had characters manifest at the top of stairs, but I have seen them in passing in the street. Though always disappointingly minor characters, never major players.

---L.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

725 is still pretty darned decent.