Process - Take It In Context

I finished up what I hope will be the last explicit scene in this novel. I had not ever really intended there to be any such thing at all but when it came right down to telling the story, it seemed more effective to go ahead with it.

The last one was the toughest because it sets the protagonist up for a serious fall and I wanted it to be at least somewhat plausible. It's okay for her to look a little stupid (she ends up feeling that way herself) but anything more than that erodes at any sympathy we might have for her as readers. Finding that balance took a fair amount of effort which will require additional effort later if I ever try to do anything with what I've written besides put it on a shelf somewhere. And therein may be the silver lining for writing something that's probably so bad it'll never be seen anywhere else.

In any case, so now I have a fair amount of writing that looks like I'm trying to be a romance novelist/soft port queen at this point and I'm finding myself somewhat embarrassed about that and a bit uncertain about what to do about it. The conclusion that I've come to is that perhaps the best thing to do is to wait to show any of those parts until I have more of the rest of it done so that they can be viewed in context with the overall story. It does mean more of a delay before I post any of what I've written (I did locate the diskette drive so have a reliable method of file transfer available to me now) but I think that's fair under the circumstances.


Daily Total - ~ 1,500
Running Total - ~ 12,963
Average WPD - 1,440