Stretching

Random quote of the day:


"The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing."

—Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki








And now, here's your moment of zen:


( Illustrated version. )

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

The current structure of my novel

You may remember a recent post in which I stated that the structure of my novel had begun to resemble a water tower with a big glob of denouement on top of spindly legs. I forced myself to outline all the stuff that needed to be crammed in at the end and come up with a sequence of events that seemed less bulbous. I've been chipping away at it ever since, doing the grown up thing, just grinding it out until I can type The End. This is not the fun part of writing, this is just what you have to do sometimes. It's been a slow, painful process, somewhat resembling this:

Yanno, closing in on the end of my sixth completed novel (sloooooooooowly) I can truly say that every novel is a royal pain in its own way. Whether you outline or not, whether you saturate yourself with research or not, whether you get to know your characters well enough to forge their signatures—or not—it's still going to give you a royal pain somewhere along the line. You think you're starting to get the hang of it after a few of them, and some things are easier, but inevitably, every damned time, you're forced to learn something new.

Or, not you, yanno, necessarily. Maybe that's just me.

I wish it was more like this:

But, alas.

Here's another one, just because it's so frickin' cuuuuuuuuuute.

I WANT ONE

NOW.

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