Music-less music montage...
Nov. 12th, 2008 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritis done.
It's amazing that something that takes three and a half minutes in CSI:NY takes up nearly 2000 words in a novel setting.
Figuring out just how my vampire virus works is next on the agenda. In a discussion with my Writing Buddy, we postulated that it might oxidize DNA somehow, but I don't know. It's gotta be blood-borne for the plot, obviously, although how my lady vamp caught it in the first place is up for grabs as well.
So, yeah, y'all. I'm 56,500 words into this thing and have no earthly idea how one of my major plot points actually works.
Someone please reassure me that this happens to other novelists. Characters take over who weren't supposed to, the handwavium gets thin, the endgame isn't making itself known, and it switches genres 2/3 of the way through?
This happens to other writers, right?
Right?
It's amazing that something that takes three and a half minutes in CSI:NY takes up nearly 2000 words in a novel setting.
Figuring out just how my vampire virus works is next on the agenda. In a discussion with my Writing Buddy, we postulated that it might oxidize DNA somehow, but I don't know. It's gotta be blood-borne for the plot, obviously, although how my lady vamp caught it in the first place is up for grabs as well.
So, yeah, y'all. I'm 56,500 words into this thing and have no earthly idea how one of my major plot points actually works.
Someone please reassure me that this happens to other novelists. Characters take over who weren't supposed to, the handwavium gets thin, the endgame isn't making itself known, and it switches genres 2/3 of the way through?
This happens to other writers, right?
Right?
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Date: 2008-11-13 07:20 am (UTC)Characters are notoriously fickle. Leading characters fade into the background, and minor characters keep butting in where they weren't planned for or wanted.
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Date: 2008-11-13 07:48 pm (UTC)And now I'm trying to figure out if he's even going to survive this, or if it would hurt him even more if not!Harmony was to die instead--which it would; I'm sure the man would rather walk through a rain of acidic fire than watch her die, especially if she does it by jumping in front of a bullet meant for him. Which brings me to "Dude, I can totally see him going full-time Wolf if that happens to her and just staying up in the hills by his wild lone forever."
My brain is MEAN.