3 questions from *PBW
Who are you?
A writer.
What do you want?
To finish this book.
What’s the worst thing I can do to you?
Take away my internet connection. Oh. You want serious, huh? Okay - Make me plot.
Okay, seriously, thanks to PBW and Katie and Pat, I think I might actually be able to polish off this book. Don’t get me wrong — I’m not changing my ways and actually PLOTTING entire books or anything. And sitting down and having a planning session with Pat and Katie after answering the three questions for my characters didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know somewhere deep in my own mind. But it refocused me since knowing it deep in my own mind was not helping me AT ALL. And Pat is a genius at figuring out plot stuff. I just babbled for a while and she would just give me a paragraph back, all focused and perfect and exactly what I was trying to say.
It’s so nice to be understood. And then she thought up some stuff I didn’t — ways I could actually deal with the hero and heroine and the sub-plots and villain and still make this whole thing a trilogy.
And thanks to her and Katie I have a black moment to work consciously toward. It gave me an order. I feel free. I feel like I could actually write this book in order. Or not. But it wouldn’t matter because I know where the pieces will fit.
I know the black moment. For me this is huge. I never know the black moment this far ahead of time.
Dear Editor:
I know the Black Moment. Trust me, it’s fabulous. I am stoked about it. I’m still up for that whole, sell on the partial, idea too. Let’s do lunch. I have three questions I’d like to ask you.
Steph T.
January 17th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
rah rah, you can do it, put a little power to it, GOOOOOOO Steph!
January 17th, 2005 at 4:44 pm
Go Steph, Go Steph , Go Steph!!
I sympathize, I hate ploting too, so I’m glad to hear this feels good to you. Go with it!
January 17th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
You can do it, Steph! Whoo-hoo!
Now, if I can just bring you over to my dark side, the one where you write the synopsis before you write the book . . .
Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
January 17th, 2005 at 5:27 pm
Thanks for the cheers!!!
Linda - don’t push it because I THINK I just hyperventilated. Seriously. I’m gonna find you another quiz to take just for that one.
January 17th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
**waves her holy water and slowly backs away from Linda**
LOL@lets do lunch.
January 18th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Go Steph! You can do it.
And I shudder at the thought of writing the Syn period, but I know it must be done. But I am learning to plot the book before I write it!