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 [...]
Chapter four was being so difficult, I skipped ahead to what would happen immediately after I got through the hospital bit. Oddly enough, considering I only vaguely knew where I was going after the hospital bit, it worked. Now I’m back to chapter four and filling in the transition. It reminds me of that scene in Dead Poets’ Society (won’t quote since I only ever saw the movie in the theater)–in essence, stand on the desk to get a different [...]