The story I was starting on...
Apr. 5th, 2009 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarI mentioned having started on a novella or longer short story maybe a year ago or so. Never got very far, I think I might have had a page or two written before I put it on hold.
My main problem has been figuring out a cause for the main conflict in the story, and I've had a few ideas, some of which were downright dumb, one of which I'd have no idea how to write about it, and the best idea...well, I couldn't figure out how to make it happen without it becoming dumb. So I put it on hold and have been pondering it since then.
This weekend I wanted to try to get back to it, try to figure out a cause for the problem. Yesterday, I had a phone appointment with the therapist, and this came up briefly towards the end and he mentioned that it was interesting that I couldn't come up with a cause for the problem in the story, and the various issues that I've been talking about in most of my appointments also seem to just come and go from nowhere, also without a cause that I can figure out. (He also noted that that was likely reading too much into things, but that it made for an interesting comment.)
I decided that if I didn't think of something soon, I would just start writing again and see what happened, maybe an idea would present itself.
Well I hadn't started writing, but this morning on the bus, I was studying CVE stuff, when an epilogue for the story popped into my head...and from the epilogue, came a cause that I don't think is at all dumb or too complicated to write. I think it will make the story a bit more "supernatural" than I had planned...but I like it and I think I can do it without it being cheesy.
This makes me happy, I've been wanting to write this for a while now.
My main problem has been figuring out a cause for the main conflict in the story, and I've had a few ideas, some of which were downright dumb, one of which I'd have no idea how to write about it, and the best idea...well, I couldn't figure out how to make it happen without it becoming dumb. So I put it on hold and have been pondering it since then.
This weekend I wanted to try to get back to it, try to figure out a cause for the problem. Yesterday, I had a phone appointment with the therapist, and this came up briefly towards the end and he mentioned that it was interesting that I couldn't come up with a cause for the problem in the story, and the various issues that I've been talking about in most of my appointments also seem to just come and go from nowhere, also without a cause that I can figure out. (He also noted that that was likely reading too much into things, but that it made for an interesting comment.)
I decided that if I didn't think of something soon, I would just start writing again and see what happened, maybe an idea would present itself.
Well I hadn't started writing, but this morning on the bus, I was studying CVE stuff, when an epilogue for the story popped into my head...and from the epilogue, came a cause that I don't think is at all dumb or too complicated to write. I think it will make the story a bit more "supernatural" than I had planned...but I like it and I think I can do it without it being cheesy.
This makes me happy, I've been wanting to write this for a while now.
