Archives: January 2008

Bumbling along

I’m finessing the beginning of La Cause.  I had an idea on the treadmill and began to hear narration in Sophie’s voice which I believe is the first time that’s happened with La Cause.  I wish I had a more traditional approach to plotting. I often feel like my plotting resembles a day of shopping–so much trying on and trying on until one finds the perfect outfit.  The metaphor extends: Or doesn’t find the perfect outfit and one has to [...]

Breaking Silence

I’ve been blogging away on non-writing things over at BlogNoir, but poor little Complete Fabrications has been neglected for almost two months!  I haven’t had too much to report. Transitions do really cause me lots of problems no matter how well I plot out things in advance or outline.  I get down to the big change from one part of the story to the next, and I always have to work my way through it carefully, trying on and tossing [...]