Hello, faithful followers. An update. What have I written since my last offering? Nothin’, zip, notadamnthing… S’okay. I’m back at it tomorrow. As I’ve mentioned before, this is a half-way point. A deviance in plot, any deviance at all from the initial plan, is a speed bump the size of Mt. McKinley at this stage. It’s a serious derailment. However, it is not fatal, or a novel killer. It could be, but in this case it is not. However, churning through things after such a decision is difficult. One reason is you can’t stop thinking of what you have to change in what you’ve already written. You have to go back and pull it out. It’s like weeding Creeping Charlie or clover out of your lawn, you spend all day chasing runners. Then, you have take what’s been laid out in your head for oh-so-many-months and discard it. Not an easy thing. Then you sit and question whether or not throwing it out is a good thing. I will confess, I did it, but I’m still not sure it was the correct move.
As it is, I’ll churn on as if it’s a done deal. If it doesn’t feel right, I can always slide it back in again… HEY! That’s half the fun! Whatever I do, and whichever way this story goes, I’ve no choice but to let it drag me where it will.
As the last entry stands, I’m not real happy with it. It can sit, however, until I come around again for the first big edit. I’m grinding my teeth over what I left out– the “farm first aid” Will left behind, and getting off track with his miserable scratches, but I can recover that with that aforementioned edit. (An aside: At this point, a part of me is screaming to STOP with adding more chapters, go back and edit what I’ve got, and will therefore have a clearer view of the finish. That POV has a LOT of merit. At this point, I’m going to tell that voice in the back of my head to shut-up for now, and see how loud it might get in the next month. Could happen.)
Soooooo…. As of tomorrow morning, I will move on. Thanks to those who’ve hung around to this point.