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

[devikun.livejournal.com]

I'm fully struggling with this myself atm! And in such a small piece, it shouldn't be a problem but it is!

Usually I use thoughts to bridge gaps - the character is thinking something at the end of one section, and in the next is continuing the internal 'conversation' or sees something in current circumstances which link directly into the previous thought or action. But geh! Not this time! That approach is not working at all!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ohh, that's a nice technique. *hoards it*

Sometimes having no transition can work too, if you somehow tie it in later to the previous threads. Like, jumping to something apparently completely unrelated.

Hmm, inneresting.