"And bring that talking donkey."
Sep. 4th, 2007 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jere7myOn the one hand, the iced mocha I got at Athan's last night was bigger than I'm used to, which meant the caffeine kept me buzzing and tossing and turning until 5AM or so.
On the other, some major structural elements from the second half of the book slotted neatly into place while I was failing to sleep—that's how he'll get in there, and that's what motivates this other fellow, and that's the traitor. Oho! Big ?'s in my outline are now !'s. Even better, I now know what the satiric religious play-within-a-novel is, and exactly what the outrageous bathroom humor punch lines will be. That should be absurdly fun to write.
Its been a long time since the story was alive in my head—all summer, really. I've heard it said that first-time novelists hit a wall around page 100, and breaking through that wall is the biggest barrier to finishing. I don't want to jinx anything, but it feels like I've broken through. (It feels really, really good.)
On the other, some major structural elements from the second half of the book slotted neatly into place while I was failing to sleep—that's how he'll get in there, and that's what motivates this other fellow, and that's the traitor. Oho! Big ?'s in my outline are now !'s. Even better, I now know what the satiric religious play-within-a-novel is, and exactly what the outrageous bathroom humor punch lines will be. That should be absurdly fun to write.
Its been a long time since the story was alive in my head—all summer, really. I've heard it said that first-time novelists hit a wall around page 100, and breaking through that wall is the biggest barrier to finishing. I don't want to jinx anything, but it feels like I've broken through. (It feels really, really good.)
