cornerofmadness

The spontaneous discovery of scenes, does this happen to you? I know we've all been face with the OMG Deadline, I have nothing race around the inside of your mind where you get your muse in a strangehold and squeeze words out of her. How about the opposite end, where the characters pop into your head and just volunteer information. I'm sure we've all been there before.

Last night it happened just as I was drifting off to sleep, and luckily I still remembered it in the morning. I've been wondering how/why the characters in my upcoming nano novel were going to get from point A to point B. They do have cars and I sort of know why. Drake is going home to his parents and the closest Living Goddess is in that town. He needs to protect her. That was easy enough but tech level is about 1925 and driving there wasn't going to be easy/even possible. That's when Sverre pipes up with 'I've never been on a train.'

Problem solved. It allows me a short scene to move them onto the next part of the arc and open up the rest of the chapter for the villian of the piece. so far nothing has gone as planned and we probably need to see that and see why this isn't immediately going to civil war.

You have to love little ah-ha moments like that in your writing.

Yearly word count -

69769 / 125000 words. 56% done!

FMA Bigbang -

4652 / 15000 words. 31% done!

Vacation in Victoria - untouched. whimpers