predicament

Well, I’ve run into an interesting predicament, a frustrating one that has me pulling at my own hair. I’ll keep this brief, because as you’ll see, I’ve got some work to do. I’m at the tail end of writing the first draft of my second novel, and I’ve hit a road block. I only have a page and a half of notes left to implement, for reference my “outline” is about 20 pages long, so really I am so close to done. 


I’ve reached the end of the story, where one might find a villain monologue, and my characters don’t know as much as I thought they knew. It’s a strange thing, I’ve never written a thing with so much mystery involved, the balance of revealing and keeping said mysteries hidden is a tough one. Apparently I erred on the side of keeping too much to myself because now my characters don’t even really know why they should be outraged. 


It is not unsalvageable, only in need of some fine tuning. I’d find it exciting, as the prospect of finishing was making me a tab blue, but I am on a self imposed deadline once again. Because like I have said a time or two before, if I don’t give myself a deadline occasionally I will never finish a project a day in my life. Really it’s the nature of an artistic endeavour, it could always be made better, but eventually it has to be good enough. 


So the plan is, finishes writing it regardless, and hope along the way, in the last few chapters, the solution will strike me. Perhaps like a lightning bolt. Really the villain has spent very little time on page owning his villainous ways. I know why he’s a bad guy, he surly knows, but my characters, hero's if you will, don’t really know all that much. So I’ve got to do some shifting around, leave a few more bread crumbs and hope for the best. 


Really it’s quite the irritating predicament. I’d like very much to stick my head in the sand for a week or two while I stew over it. But I’ve only got so much time, only so many years to live, so we solider on, even in the storm. 


Thanks for attending my rambling, and I’ll see you the same place next week, where hopefully divine inspiration has struck and solved all my problems. Until next time. 

*tips cowboy hat to you* 

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