1 post tagged “process”

I'm at 17,720 as of this moment.  Behind, but not a bad place to be. 

I've gotten to the point where I'm about as far as I can go with my set of characters as they are now, knowing who they are and what they know thus far.  There is much revision work to do, but I need to explore the why's behind my shapeshifter, who is at this point a means to an end, the alchemist who is hardly a thought and how they fit together, because they do.  The map is all part of it and the witch is fitting herself in only where she needs to.  I feel like I have too many characters, but I don't want to explore them too deeply; I don't want there to be neat little answers to all questions.  I admit that I have one stupidly flat character and don't know how to fix her - especially since she is the reason behind some of the mundane events that lead to extraordinary things happening to the MC.

Tomorrow I need to start on the part of the journey that happens before all the characters get together and what happens after the MC has her big life altering event.  She still has a journey to make to find her child, discover the reason her home is slipping out of time, oh and figure out either why she has been turned into an old woman or how to turn herself back.  In there somewhere I have to decide what the shapeshifter's ultimate role is and what the MC has to come home to.  See, I'm still figuring things out.

Using this blog to write out these little summeries and what ifs is feeling very helpful.  It's almost decompressing after sitting to write.  Now if only I could figure out how to get my brain to utilize the space for thinking ahead...