Yesterday's writing...

Yesterday morning, I figured out that I had a scene that needed to be chopped, rearranged, and basically re-written. Not from scratch, but it definitely needed ingredients added and then a Blender Treatment. Stuff happened in the completely wrong order and the psychology was not as complicated as I wanted it to be.

So, rather than working on the New Scene (which is going to be its Own Brand of Fun), I edited the old one. And now it makes actual sense. Of course, whether it's actually going to stay in the story at all is an open question at this point, because there's a lot in there that's going to be cut. But I really like the bit of character illumination that goes on here, and the fact that this is the first time where Ange isn't basically taking over and saying "sex me now," but it's more mutual, is important. Because Ben's just lost another piece of himself.

And now I need to buckle down and finish the New Scene. Which should give me the rest of the words I need for the week, Muses willing. And then I need to figure out how in the hell this isn't a deus ex machina and what the Cost is going to be--and how it's going to bite him on the ass at a critical moment.

Because that's how I roll.

Oh god I so do not have the chops to pull this off.

Yesterday's writing...

Yesterday morning, I figured out that I had a scene that needed to be chopped, rearranged, and basically re-written. Not from scratch, but it definitely needed ingredients added and then a Blender Treatment. Stuff happened in the completely wrong order and the psychology was not as complicated as I wanted it to be.

So, rather than working on the New Scene (which is going to be its Own Brand of Fun), I edited the old one. And now it makes actual sense. Of course, whether it's actually going to stay in the story at all is an open question at this point, because there's a lot in there that's going to be cut. But I really like the bit of character illumination that goes on here, and the fact that this is the first time where Ange isn't basically taking over and saying "sex me now," but it's more mutual, is important. Because Ben's just lost another piece of himself.

And now I need to buckle down and finish the New Scene. Which should give me the rest of the words I need for the week, Muses willing. And then I need to figure out how in the hell this isn't a deus ex machina and what the Cost is going to be--and how it's going to bite him on the ass at a critical moment.

Because that's how I roll.

Oh god I so do not have the chops to pull this off.