drachenmina

The more I write, the less I understand people who say things like they spent a year thinking about a novel, and then they just had to write it down. One of the biggest problems I have with longer stories (anything over 15k) is keeping it all in my (apparently rather disappointingly-sized) brain at once. Still haven't come up with a satisfactory solution to this.

Yes, I've had stories that seemed to write themselves, but they were very particular about waiting for me to sit down at the keyboard before they started, and I couldn't have told you beforehand very much at all about how they would go.

Have started writing the end of Camwolf, which has been very useful in letting me know what has to happen in the middle.

17k.

11k. And I baked a cake.

Hm. Well, this morning I was dispirited, but I have spent the day getting to know Julian a bit better and I think I'm starting to understand him. All I needed was to get him to talk!

One thing I am not so sure about is introducing a 2nd POV character, which is Julian's BFF Tiff. This means inevitably giving her a rather bigger role than I had planned. I really don't want to use Julian's POV, but we weren't seeing enough of him with just Nick's POV.

7k now, but there is at least one scene which will have to be cut or at least radically rehashed.