I decided that this weekend, I was going to push the story forward. I have had my characters stranded on the brink of a moment of truth for about a month now. I deicded to take a break from my pattern of enriching the back-story and just push the characters further up the timeline.
I am happy to be able to report that for the most part, it has been successfull. I wrote about ten pages of the fateful parking lot scene, when all the major characters are on stage at the same time.
I did it mostly in long hand, to keep me from erasing large blocks of text. That is a way that I have discovered that I blocked myself. I write, then I highlight text and delete it. When I write longhand, I don't do that. If I don't like it, I may start on a clean page, but when I calm down, I still have access to whatever I had written originally.
I need to go back and improve the scene I wrote, but I am not sure if I should save that for later. The improvement needed is that I need to make the scene more atmospheric. As it is now, it's like the characters are talking and acting without any encumberence from the face that there are in a public place in the middle of nowhere. I need to flesh that out. However, I think I am going to keep pushing forward. It's hard from me to figure out when I am hiding from the story and when I am improving it.
Also, FYI, I posted a short chapter of the story on my other blog
And, Ron, posted a video of me reading on facebook.
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