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 go out shopping again the next day.
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 out various approaches.Â
I made good progress this weekend, pushing through the point in the story where I need to shift from how things start to how they will no continue. I like it. I’m happy. The characters are all miserable, but my three main POVers are all together in the same room at last and the part where I reunite two of the characters (a reunion that’s been giving me fits because it is very delicate and important for the rest of the book) fell into place at last, and it hits exactly the notes I need and want it to hit.
And so, chapter four ends with the word “treason.”