Loose threads and missing patterns
Well, I'm sitting at the kitchen bar for my pre-day-job morning writing session. I just refilled the birdfeeder outside our front window where a fat #&$ squirrel ate all of the food I put out for the precious little birds. I think I'll either get a squirrel baffle or coat the top of the feeder with cooking oil. ; ) Suggestions are welcome.
In the hour and 15 minutes I have until I have to leave for work, I'm going to try to make sense of the loose strings in my manuscript and find the missing pattern. As is always the case when I get to the middle of the book, I find there's quicksand and lots of it. I've got more than a few loose plot strings, and I know there's a pattern in there somewhere (ie, the solution that's gonna get my butt out of the quicksand), but at the moment I can't see it. But as with all my previous books, the answer is right there in front of me in plain sight. And to find it I just have to open my eyes to a new/different view of my book. Meaning look (and think) outside of the box.
Hmmm, come to think of it, the answer to my plot problem (and quite a few of life's problems) can be found when you look at the problem from a different angle and think outside the box. ; )
Going to write now,
Lisa
In the hour and 15 minutes I have until I have to leave for work, I'm going to try to make sense of the loose strings in my manuscript and find the missing pattern. As is always the case when I get to the middle of the book, I find there's quicksand and lots of it. I've got more than a few loose plot strings, and I know there's a pattern in there somewhere (ie, the solution that's gonna get my butt out of the quicksand), but at the moment I can't see it. But as with all my previous books, the answer is right there in front of me in plain sight. And to find it I just have to open my eyes to a new/different view of my book. Meaning look (and think) outside of the box.
Hmmm, come to think of it, the answer to my plot problem (and quite a few of life's problems) can be found when you look at the problem from a different angle and think outside the box. ; )
Going to write now,
Lisa
posted by Lisa Shearin at
7:18 AM
3 Comments:
When all the plot strings come together, you get to have one of those "yessss I'm a genius!" moments, too :-) I hope your morning writing time is productive!
Rather a long time ago, you posted a youtube video about the worst agent/editor in the world. Some guy who kept saying things like "Sarah, but NOT sarah." What was it? I want to watch it again, I remember that it was hilarious.
I hope I have that "genius" moment soon. ; )
Perfect timing on the YouTube request! Since I'm slammed at work and at home writing, that'll be a quick blog topic for me to dig up. I'll post it on tomorrow's blog.
Thanks!! :-)
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