NO SNIPPET FOR YOU.

You can not has. Sorry.

But I have finally bulled my way through this scene and even managed to incorporate it into the main body of the book, which is now on version 5.0. And I think it's better for the (slight) character growth, and the dramatic tension did get ratcheted up quite a bit when not!Pepper didn't have the ammunition of "she's alive," even though he didn't believe her in the previous incarnation anyway.

Okay, so, do writers that outline end up with the same problems that I'm having with this thing, or is this unique to "pantsing" it? Not that I think I'm going to change my writing style, because this has worked for me pretty well, but damn if it's not a long and sometimes ugly process. I had a real moment of terror when the handsome and talented howardtayler told me that, if not!Harry didn't know he couldn't live without not!Harmony by this point, that my whole plot was broken rather than just that bit, but I'm pretty sure I worked it out anyway. And I'm not sure that Howard would have thought that had he had all the facts at his disposal rather than just me moaning about how my climax was broken, which sounds dirty even on the BYU campus.

Anyway. It's not broken anymore. Not!Harry is still sort of broken, but not as broken as he was, maybe, and, hey, we've only known the guy for, like, a week. So, yeah. Now I just need to tweak the pie scene, I think, and have another look at the boardroom scene. Then I can ship it off to the lovely and effulgent janchristensen for a look-see and see what she thinks of it.

And anyone else I sent it to who hasn't chimed in yet, I'm pretty eager to see what y'all think of it too. Seriously.

NO SNIPPET FOR YOU.

You can not has. Sorry.

But I have finally bulled my way through this scene and even managed to incorporate it into the main body of the book, which is now on version 5.0. And I think it's better for the (slight) character growth, and the dramatic tension did get ratcheted up quite a bit when not!Pepper didn't have the ammunition of "she's alive," even though he didn't believe her in the previous incarnation anyway.

Okay, so, do writers that outline end up with the same problems that I'm having with this thing, or is this unique to "pantsing" it? Not that I think I'm going to change my writing style, because this has worked for me pretty well, but damn if it's not a long and sometimes ugly process. I had a real moment of terror when the handsome and talented howardtayler told me that, if not!Harry didn't know he couldn't live without not!Harmony by this point, that my whole plot was broken rather than just that bit, but I'm pretty sure I worked it out anyway. And I'm not sure that Howard would have thought that had he had all the facts at his disposal rather than just me moaning about how my climax was broken, which sounds dirty even on the BYU campus.

Anyway. It's not broken anymore. Not!Harry is still sort of broken, but not as broken as he was, maybe, and, hey, we've only known the guy for, like, a week. So, yeah. Now I just need to tweak the pie scene, I think, and have another look at the boardroom scene. Then I can ship it off to the lovely and effulgent janchristensen for a look-see and see what she thinks of it.

And anyone else I sent it to who hasn't chimed in yet, I'm pretty eager to see what y'all think of it too. Seriously.