HELP! End of transmission… Well not quite but it is definitely not as easy as I thought. I recently had an epiphany and threw out my old novel idea. I discovered a new one that has really intrigued me and I thought that writing it in a month would be a breeze.
After all, I finally have a fully realized beginning and end so I am way ahead of the curve, right…Right? Wrong! I am running into a problem with the part between the beginning and end where little things like story and plot usually appear. I cant get a handle on how much needs to happen before the huge confrontation, how many subplots to weave into it, etc.
The people I dragged into this contest with me have had some great ideas and I am going to change my writing style, which simply terrifies me. I am a planner, so when I set down to write it is always with a clear goal in mind and I think that is why I hit a wall. Instead of a goal, I am going to write a stream of consciousness through the middle of the book. It might be interesting to discover a book instead of clinically mapping it out. I am going to turn off my internal editor, which is the hardest part for me to do. I am just going to type and see where it takes me. A lot of it will be garbage and I know that but when I go through my first edit I can excavate the small pieces of value and polish and mold them into my story. I am going to rip the backspace and delete keys off my keyboard now but I will let you know how it goes.
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