A bedeviled week

[pjthompson]

I missed two of my weekday writing sessions, plus I didn't get any writing done over the weekend. Fortunately, on the days when I actually did write, I had better-than-average sessions, so the word count isn't as pitiful as it might have been.

I was also convinced most of the week that I was writing the current chapter from the wrong POV, but as I closed in on the end of it, I finally saw why it needed to be from that POV and it smoothed out nicely. Funny how that happens. It does me absolutely no good to ask myself, as They recommend, "Who has the most at stake in this scene?" to determine who's telling the tale. Once my instincts decide on a POV, that's pretty much it and I've got to live with it. Every rare now and then I'll switch the tale-teller in rewrites, but usually, not so much. Because most of those times, the instincts seem to have it write. Or right.

Or I could be delusional. Funny how that happens.


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Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Weird, how that can happen. Good show!

[pjthompson]

Thanks. I know better than to argue with the gut, but in this case I'd lost track of whether it was the gut or the head that had made that POV decision.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

The 'Most at Stake' thing doesn't always work for me, either. Sometimes the characters and guts tell you to go a different way, and you can't ignore them both.

[pjthompson]

I think the things They tell you are a rule of thumb, anyway. If you can't decide on a POV, then you can ask yourself who has the most at stake and go from there. But if your gut has already made the decision, it's probably best to go with that.