Moving on

Sometimes you have to look at your work and realize that you have to move on from it. I'm not giving up on the novel, but on the scene I've been worrying over. The thing is, I haven't been able to get that scene the way I want it. Christine's boss is introduced, and then... I have to have him act mean. But my heart isn't in that right now.

So instead of letting this one scene - something that won't be more than two paragraphs long - I'm letting it sit right now. It's the best thing to do for it. There are so many other parts on which I need to work that I can afford to let this go. I cannot, however, forget about it. Not that I"m going to forget it. I hope I'm not, anyway.

But you get the idea.

Thinking Outside the Box

All right, I know it's a cliche, but I'd rather let out all the cliches here than in the novel itself, so deal with it.

Also, I'm writing on a Mac, and fo some reason, there are only two buttons, spell check and insert a freakin' picture.

Basically I'm writing this to say two things:

First, I've found a way around the problem I was having last time. Instead of figuring out if I want Christine's boss to be passive aggressive or just plain aggressive, I've decided to put things off for a bit, and just have him be plain insulting at first. I'll deal with the question of aggression later. This serves two purposes. The first is that I can build a little tension (that's the plan, and no, it's no perfect) with the character. So he didn't blow up right now. Fine. Each encounter can get a little worse. The second is it gives me time to refine who and what he is. Now, I could just hold off on the scene, and I may just do that, but either way I'm simply delaying the job.

Second, there actually hasn't been a lot of activity on the novel lately because of the film script on which I'm working. Not much has moved ahead (if you want details, go read the damn blog!), but suffice it to say that I've been giving it my attention more than I have to "Godsend." Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll be able to devote more time to "Godsend," as it is near and dear to my heart.

Damn cliches.