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snurri ([personal profile] snurri) wrote2010-07-14 08:24 am
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How's the Writing Going?

The novel was moving along swimmingly for a couple of months, there. Then I got stuck. At first I thought it was because I couldn't decide what to do with the Mississippi River, but it's really this scene with the guns, here. Right now I've got eight characters in a room waiting for me to decide what happens next. They are asking me things like, "Are you sure I need to get shot?" and "Doesn't all this tension seem a bit manufactured?" and "Do we need to keep pointing these things at each other while you figure this out?"

So there's your update.

[identity profile] snurri.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally read that as "giant sea otter." Now I'm a teensy bit disappointed.

I want the peril, I do! It just gets cranked up to a certain point, and the spring gets stuck. Sigh.

[identity profile] jess-ka.livejournal.com 2010-07-14 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Giant sea otter! It will play with us to death! I like it. Maybe I'll have one of those, too...