Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tension is good. Cliches bad. Did I just sound like Tarzan?

5:12 PM  
Blogger TheWriteGirl said...

I write on a mac. What software are you using?

11:29 AM  

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