Sometimes I’m amazed at what the Plot Daemon has been up to behind my back.\u00a0 I was not feeling well for several days after the trip, and couldn’t get more than a hundred words or so out at a time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Far below my daily goals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (I was waking up unsure where I was–mostly thinking I was on the train, but once still in a hotel–and the writing itself was peculiar.\u00a0 I knew certain scenes would be difficult, but usually those difficult scenes come embedded in their full context.\u00a0 This time…not so much.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But underneath\/behind all that, the Plot Daemon was busy.<\/p>\n
So this morning the plot-string I’m on, that had been knotted up badly, allowed me to follow it through the tangle.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a mistake in another thread several chapters back that’s going to have to be fixed in revision…but then TWO threads will be out of the tangle.<\/p>\n
And now I can see, looking back all the way to the original trilogy, where the first clues are.\u00a0 DANG.\u00a0 I have one smart Plot Daemon.\u00a0 (Yes.\u00a0 And you should quit trying to argue with me and just write!<\/em> Because when you try to force things, you make mistakes.<\/em>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I do.<\/p>\n Book III is coming into shape.\u00a0\u00a0 Some things about it are very dark, and not all the POVs are in the right place yet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I still don’t know if one character will be alive or not at the end of the book.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Just write the damn book!<\/em>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know if we’ll have good news or bad on three other fronts by then.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And as I wrote this, a small plot-bomb just exploded in my brain…so I guess I better shut up and write.\u00a0 (I keep telling you!!!<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes I’m amazed at what the Plot Daemon has been up to behind my back.\u00a0 I was not feeling well for several days after the trip, and couldn’t get more than a hundred words or so out at a time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Far below my daily goals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (I was waking up unsure where I was–mostly thinking I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[106,62,20,107],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-craft-of-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}