Book III is once more regarding me with indifference.\u00a0\u00a0 Book III doesn’t care that\u00a0 Book I was getting its launch, and Book II needed\u00a0 its editorial revisions completed…books, once out of the gate, are selfish to the nth degree and care only about themselves.\u00a0 They want the writer’s full attention, thank you.\u00a0 So I’m setting serious daily goals for it, and dragging it along, one difficult sentence after another.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the part of writing that is Not Fun–something that every writer faces sooner or later, and often repeatedly.<\/p>\n
Eventually (and boy, do I hope it’s soon!!!) Book III will sigh, shrug its shoulders, say “Oh, well…” and get on with its job of pouring story into my head, instead of me having to dig around in the mud trying to find the trickle of story-water that should be filling the well.<\/p>\n
Part of what’s going on is that while I wasn’t first-drafting in Book III, the critical\/editorial brain went over what had been written and started trying to plan.\u00a0\u00a0 How much Story would Book III cover?\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, look, this bit needs to be fixed, because it’s impossible.\u00a0\u00a0 What if this happens and so-and-so reacts like this–would he or she?\u00a0 And maybe it needs to be aimed this direction?<\/p>\n
All of which annoys the Plot Daemon no end, but is hard to shut up when I’m not actually writing on the book.\u00a0 The Plot Daemon, in revenge, is perfectly willing to let me write pages and pages that later will prove to be useless, rather than turn the Story spigot back on.<\/p>\n
I think I’ll go pick some salad greens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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