ok... now to talk about why I'm here.
Plotting trouble. It's so hard to make a decision when both are great.
Do I go this way or would that way be better? My sister is new mom and does not have time or enough interest. I would love to find a writer buddy but how do you find someone you trust?
(I shared my idea once with someone online and whaddaya know... boy, that idea sounds a little familiar, why doesn't it. So yeah, you can't trust writers. They might not mean to steal your stuff. and it's what you do with the idea that matters but still. I like my idea. It's a cool idea. Yes, ideas are a dime a dozen, but it's my idea. I'd like to use it first, thank you very much.)
And so anyway... who can I talk to about my idea? Not here. Not with any specifics obviously.
But anyway, maybe I can start doing the thinking and just cancel out the specifics before I click 'publish'.
So okay, I've got two stories that I'm combining but it calls for me to pick some things over other things. I have to eliminate stuff that might be good but not as good as this other thing. And it has to hold together. I have a tendency to ignore plot holes that would drive me insane as a reader because the idea is just too cool to not keep.
Please just one story without enormous plot holes.
Most of the outline is done but I'm combining with a different story idea that will improve things.
But I need to figure out what to give up, what to pull in, how best to combine. How to get rid of plot holes that are there that I tend to somehow not see until sister points out and I always think, 'oh, i guess that was noticeable.' dang it, each time i think, I will not ignore plot holes but in practice I think, no one will ever notice that.
and then other times I'm like but what if she's just not reading close enough. like that was right there in the text. So do I have to spell it out, really? or is she just not a close enough reader? that's not realistic to think someone will read close enough. Ugh, it's a pet peeve when everything is spelled out. But apparently you lose most people if you don't spell it out.So that's why they do it.
