There have been other times recently when I felt like, yes, things were in motion. The story was being told. Pages were adding up. Stuff was happening.
Each time, the energy sooner or later wandered off, twiddling its thumbs with boredom.
One of the last things that Monique said to me was, "You have to let it do what it wants to do. That's the only way it can come to life."
This has always meant that, whatever I thought the plan was, I'm going to have to let it slip its leash and then just trundle along after it, cleaning up as I go. This means, for a writer, that every time any character does something that wasn't in the script, the entire script that came before needs to be tweaked to make it fit.Foreshadowing as afterthought. Buildup as cleanup.
The reward, however, is a story that's actually alive. And in the last few days, Aias has continually done things that I absolutely did not expect. So the cleaning up has been extensive, but totally worth it.
Each time, the energy sooner or later wandered off, twiddling its thumbs with boredom.
One of the last things that Monique said to me was, "You have to let it do what it wants to do. That's the only way it can come to life."
This has always meant that, whatever I thought the plan was, I'm going to have to let it slip its leash and then just trundle along after it, cleaning up as I go. This means, for a writer, that every time any character does something that wasn't in the script, the entire script that came before needs to be tweaked to make it fit.Foreshadowing as afterthought. Buildup as cleanup.
The reward, however, is a story that's actually alive. And in the last few days, Aias has continually done things that I absolutely did not expect. So the cleaning up has been extensive, but totally worth it.
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