Well still moving along, which is great…

The chapter I’m writing now is a bit info-dumpy with a lot to reveal (always gets that way towards the end, doesn’t it? Ugh!) But I found a way to make it slightly more interesting than mere explanatory wrap ups.

It was by accident that I did. My previous chapters were dialogue heavy, so I decided to shut my characters up and write this one without. I knew what I wanted to write, but had no idea how it was going to pan out. I just started writing and ended up going with loads of one-line shockers to keep the suspense.

And ah, it was fun! Those of you (un)fortunate enough to have been subjected to my stories must know: I love one-liners. I love them as much as I loathe chunky paragraphs. I love building paragraphs to some indubitable climactic point only to trample it with terrible one-line contradictions. Perhaps this chapter has too much of that, but meh. My project. I’m entitled to a bit of amusement.

In the midst of all this, I also discovered unexpected ‘answers’ to my subplot issues which was yay! But that also means I have to edit some bits I’ve written now. *Write notes*

Thought of the day — Do you have some style/technique you adore so much, that you keep going back to, even sometimes subconsciously? If you do, have you tried to expand, exploit, experiment, excavate, ex-whatever this style for curiosity sake? What did you find?

And those of you who have written novels before, have you been at that point when things suddenly fall into place out of nowhere? I outline my projects from start to finish, so I am rarely ever surprised. This time I was, though, and I found I quite liked how my puzzle pieces settle into a picture I had not drawn.

Lovely, when things don’t go as planned.

Anyway, I just realised these posts feed to Facebook as well. Ah, I apologise to those who do not wish to read my ramblings. Please ignore me. For those who do, good to have you! *hugs*

More on project Faziel…

I found a relatively stable path to get to the end, a bit swollen with more subplots I wish I’d space and time to mull over, but I know I won’t so I may have to think about cutting out earlier subplots that are not linked to the main one.

Having found that path, I realise that it means I’ve no way to save one of my favourite characters from demise. It is, to my surprise, a rather distressing thought for I’ve become attached and know very well how the incident will change the dynamic of the tale. Believe it or not, this project started off a light one–I did plan it as a YA novel, meant to exercise my world-building skills and odd humour only a bunch of you may appreciate :p –but as I venture further on, it’s really turning more and more grim, forcing me to look at issues that may be lathered with adult-themes. We’ll see. I am not really sure yet where the project will fit. I will just soldier on and hope I may find others who can appreciate and enjoy it as much as I have.

Thoughts for the day– is it not odd how attached you may become to your characters? I spent hours thinking of ways to save this one and knew that I couldn’t. It almost felt like I must needs sever my limb. I wonder if it might be easier to think of them as movie stars, cast on these roles they’ve played so well in, they wear them like second skin. I may recast them in other tales. I don’t know. I don’t see their faces, but feel their personalities come to life.

I am sure this makes me overly sentimental and perhaps also means I need a life :p

My husband thinks so.

So, I have not posted here for a while. I’m sorry just that I don’t really know what to post.

What’s been happening? Well, I’ve been writing my novel, currently up to chapter *uhm* fifty two. I’m still enjoying it, a little too much I think, but this is the first time I actually love all the characters including the baddies, so I’m going to try to finish it. I think I’m up to 104K words now – is that too long? I’m not sure. I have been trying not to edit too much until I get to the end.

The frustrating thing is, I can see the end, but I am having trouble to get there. I tried three different roads now and they end up at a cliff edge. Bwaaa… Don’t you just hate it when that happens? For those of you who have written novels, I don’t know how you do it. If you do, please tell me. I always have trouble getting the end written  in a satisfactory manner, albeit I am quite happy with how I ended ‘Cursed’ – that is my first one which I am yet to edit to perfection – but I cheated there because I stopped abruptly and explained the twist in an Epilogue.

Another cliff edge.

Perhaps if I know enough cheats…

I have decided to motivate myself to get this one finished – let’s call it Project ‘Faziel’ – so I will start talking about it, and hope that I get more inspiration talking about it. Feel free to share experiences with your projects, how do you get motivated? how do you write the ending? are you happy with it? do you think it’s so difficult because you don’t want to part with your characters? do you think it’s difficult because you’ve had too many plots and subplots to wrap up? how do you choose which ones to wrap up, which ones to keep for a sequel?

But ugh, I hate sequels, so I always try my best to wrap everything up.

Apologies if this bores you to death, but some blogs do, so suck it up