Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Protag has it way too easy... :(

I love Holly’s courses “How to revise your novel”/”How to think sideways”.  

My big complaint is I paid for the course but I still have to wait for them to be delivered: 1 lesson per week.  What a big gip.  I want them NOW, damn it.  I don’t get why they can’t just be unlocked... seriously.[!!]..

The courses are great.  I actually get more out of the revision course.  But then it might be because I've already done so much of the writing portion of the novel that I'm just not able to use that stuff yet.  Whereas the revision course is all about 'what to do with what you've got, now you've got it..."

I wish I was done writing.  

Antagonists are figured out finally.  I was able to use HTTS method for that.  Lesson 5 dots and lines.  My "me" doesn't get why it worked but it did... :)

So now I am dealing with all these handouts laid at my protag's doorstep in the next 2 scenes.  Not good. I don't want to write any of that stuff cause then I'll just have to edit out and replace later.

It's stalling the process so I need to figure it out.
Although it's nice.  my word count hasn't changed much [73,715] but ->story progress  over the past several months?  I'm still really happy with it.

antagonist: figured out
scenes to the end: sketched out

and HTRYN to make it matter to the reader once I'm done.  Reading the lessons (but not able to do any of it yet) has made me really hopeful.  Wonder if that will last once i'm actually trying to do it... can't wait.

Yah, so as i was saying, plotting problems... it's standing between me and moving my story forward.  :-(

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