Losing the plot

[louiselux]

Arrgh, my story!

I do not know what is happening next in it, and it's extremely vexing and frightening. I just have to keep on going through this difficult part and hope it comes out right. I just rewrote a huge chunk of it today and don't want to have to backtrack again. I have all these words and I just need to jiggle them around till they make sense. Possibly I should go and do my ironing and not worry about it anymore tonight. *takes a deep breath*

Recently, I was telling emungerethat I never thought about transitions in stories and that they seemed to happen easily. Predictably, transitions are now laughing in my face and refusing to cooperate. How many times can I have a character fall asleep and wake up as a way to move the story forward? So far it's happened about four times. Gahh. Transition-fu, I do not have it.

Comments

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I hate it when that happens. The one I just recently finished, I ended up having to hack off the entire first scene and had a mild panic attack - thankfully, it all usually gets somewhere :)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Yes! It's scary to hack up a story, but usually it comes right and parts do get recyled. I do feel like I'm shaking the words around in a big bag at the moment.