too much, too soon
Do you know when you write a scene in your WIP and it’s just perfect, until you realize that maybe your hero revealed too much, too soon and that it would be better for the plot overall if that piece of information remain secret for the time being. And then you think, well, easy enough, I’ll just take out that crucial piece of info and then everything will be fine, and you do that except it’s not fine, because everything you wrote about in that scene and the scene before doesn’t work anymore after you take out that crucial piece of information. The witty banter, the growing trust, it’s just wrong now, and probably a smidge too early in the book for it anyway.
But you say, f*** it, and you keep it the way it is because you love the way it’s turning out, except that, now that you’ve had that brainstorm it’s not going to seem right until you fix it. And you wonder why in the hell your hero couldn’t have just told you he didn’t want that piece of information revealed when you revealed it. And, now that you go back and look at it, you realize that if you go back and fix everything you’ll save yourself that whole, they’re being too nice to each other too early, problem that tends to happen when you don’t plot. And then you wonder if plotters have this problem too, and you curse them bitterly anyway, because you know they’ll forgive you.
And then you stare at the two long-assed chapters, even though all you want to do is push forward but they’ve got to be fixed now or you’ll risk ruining everything you write later, since this is the jenga balancing act and if you make a misstep, the whole thing crashes down.
Did that ever happen to you?
Steph T.
October 18th, 2005 at 3:47 am
Not that exactly, but, uhmm sort of.
October 18th, 2005 at 7:39 am
Yes. Exactly. You read my mind.
I’m trying to just forge ahead,usually I go back and do a quick edit at the halfway mark to set myself up for the rest of the story, but not this time. And Oh. My. Gawd. It’s like having an itch you can’t scratch combined with chinese water torture.
So umm, yeah, I know where you’re coming from.
M
October 18th, 2005 at 10:59 am
Sorta……..yeah but it was only like a six or seven page deviation *ducking*
October 18th, 2005 at 11:46 am
There, there, dear, don’t get yourself in a tizzy…
Here…a couple of smoothies will fix everything…
October 18th, 2005 at 11:58 am
LOL @ Raine and the smoothies.
October 18th, 2005 at 12:06 pm
LOL Sasha - I’m lising it, aren’t I?
Oh, good DM - I’m always SO happy when someone else is suffering right along with me - and I mean that in the best, I wish we didn’t have to sufffer way. Here’s to writing our way out of misery.
Cece - I’d kill for 6-7 pages, so yes, ducking is a very good idea right now.:lol:
*contemplates sending veggie patty MRE smoothie to Raine*
October 18th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
:???:I’ve written, what I considered to be a good scene, too early in the story. It’s frustrating when that happens
October 18th, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Who me . . .nope.:smoke: Eh-uh. Never.
Well . . . OK, sometimes. 
OK, more than sometimes. All the time. There are you happy now.:lol:
October 18th, 2005 at 6:27 pm
Yes, actually. I wrote an entire book with no solid romantic conflict. Oops.
October 18th, 2005 at 8:28 pm
er nope. I tend to plo — er, outline…
October 19th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
It is, Bonnie. Because as much as you try and move it somplace else, it never works. I’ll just chalk it up to yet another learning experience.
Teresa - I’m always incredibly happy when one of my writing buddies shares my misery!!:thumbsup: Gah - sucks, doesn’t it?
LOL Michelle - I’ve done that too!
*makes a note that Jaq is one of those damn plotters to mutter about*
October 19th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
I do this all the time… I just can’t help it really. I am such a messy writer.