You know better

I have been working on my novel for this month... It is going okay. I feel like I am riding on a rollerskating in the middle of the night and it's going so fast I can't see the track in front of my. The tracks behind me are barely a memory. The safety straps are broken and I am clinging onto a harness, dangling an unknown height above the ground.

It's the most exhilarating and terrifying experience of my life.

The story knows best, I keep telling myself that, but if feels like I am being jerked around by a chain and not making any progress. I had the whole story plotted out and then when I was writing last night, more or less on script, my main characters father goes and starts telling her things she wasn't supposed to find out until the end of the novel... after starting the conversation I can't well go back and change it, not only would that kill my word count, but the authenticity, the feel of the, story can't be ignored. And the conversation felt right. It's like my sixth sense was screaming "This needs to happen and it is happen, so sit down and right the rest of the freaking scene!"

My sixth sense is not very nice.

It is totally ignoring the fact that if I reveal the important information now I will have no cool plot twist at the end of novel. But this is were I need to remind myself that the novel knows best. I have written most of this book by the seat of my pants and whatever happens at the end has already been decided, I just don't know it yet. All will be revealed in good time, I just need to let my sub conscious off the leash and go for it. It is the scariest feeling ever. And it is the most intoxicating.

Trick to writing

I have come to the conclusion, with lots of help, that there are two main things to writing as a profession. The first is to never tell the twist. As a matter of fact avoid talking about your story as much as is physically possible, and no matter what do not give away the twist at the ending! DO NOT DO IT! It will kill the book faster than normal life would.

And I have forgotten what the second tip was... between me starting this post and sitting down to finish it I lost my idea... damn.

Oh, yes. I remember now. The second trick to writing is to write. It is amazing how many people want to be writers who don't do that. They say they want to write, that they have tons of plot ideas, but then they don't ever sit down and pound out the words. Writing is serious work and should be treated with respect, the same respect as other jobs, if you don't do it everyday it will bitch slap you.

That is all I have to say on writing. Don't tell and do it everyday.

The chaos has commenced

This is probably the last sane post for the rest of the blog. I was seriously considering just not posting what I write everyday. Since none of it it will be edited and all of it pretty much sucks. Take that as a warning.