Connective tissue
Been feeling a little lost lately, so the writing has been… iffy.
It’s kind of like I have all the big scenes in the book worked out, and now I have to go and just write all of the connective tissue between them. Except, I don’t want to dismiss this stuff as mere connective tissue. So, my challenge as of late is to take a necessary chapter to get from point A (which is already written) to point B (which is already written) and somehow bring something that elevates the text past its purpose.
It is taking a mere sentence fragment or sentence from the short story and trying to build it into its own relevant world. The good news is I only have about 7-8 more of these chapter to write and then I will be done with the first to acts of the book. I’ve already written the end of Act Two, where things start heating up, etc., but I really haven’t thought about what would happen next. I want to nail everything up until that point first.
So that’s what I’ve been doing lately. Writing a lot more nonsense than usual, just to see what works, what doesn’t, and just explore the scenes in different ways. But it is taking far more work than the scenes that have clear direction and purpose.
Jeff
