Where Am I Going Again?

First off, in real life, fenchurche came through town after leaving DragonCon and we had a late lunch together. Squee! It was great to finally meet her and she's every bit as nice in person as she's always been online.

In fandom-life, I confessed yesterday that I'm not as far along in my Seasonal Spuffy story as I had planned to be by this date. It seems that I have yet again hit that 2/3rds point in a story where I find myself looking back, looking forward, scratching my head, and wondering "Where was I going again?" It feels like the main thrust of the story should be more... erm... thrusty. I have all these things going on, but the center of the story is too soft and amorphous. It needs focus and trimming. It needs a more direct purpose and I'm missing it... somewhere. If I knew where, it wouldn't be so amorphous, would it?

I'm going to continue trying to plow through and hope that on second draft I can distill the essence of the story (whatever that may be)in a more clean format, but right now I feel like I don't have a firm grasp on the emotions and the story that I want to tell.

Ughhh.

Where Am I Going Again?

First off, in real life, fenchurche came through town after leaving DragonCon and we had a late lunch together. Squee! It was great to finally meet her and she's every bit as nice in person as she's always been online.

In fandom-life, I confessed yesterday that I'm not as far along in my Seasonal Spuffy story as I had planned to be by this date. It seems that I have yet again hit that 2/3rds point in a story where I find myself looking back, looking forward, scratching my head, and wondering "Where was I going again?" It feels like the main thrust of the story should be more... erm... thrusty. I have all these things going on, but the center of the story is too soft and amorphous. It needs focus and trimming. It needs a more direct purpose and I'm missing it... somewhere. If I knew where, it wouldn't be so amorphous, would it?

I'm going to continue trying to plow through and hope that on second draft I can distill the essence of the story (whatever that may be)in a more clean format, but right now I feel like I don't have a firm grasp on the emotions and the story that I want to tell.

Ughhh.

Where Am I Going Again?

First off, in real life, fenchurche came through town after leaving DragonCon and we had a late lunch together. Squee! It was great to finally meet her and she's every bit as nice in person as she's always been online.

In fandom-life, I confessed yesterday that I'm not as far along in my Seasonal Spuffy story as I had planned to be by this date. It seems that I have yet again hit that 2/3rds point in a story where I find myself looking back, looking forward, scratching my head, and wondering "Where was I going again?" It feels like the main thrust of the story should be more... erm... thrusty. I have all these things going on, but the center of the story is too soft and amorphous. It needs focus and trimming. It needs a more direct purpose and I'm missing it... somewhere. If I knew where, it wouldn't be so amorphous, would it?

I'm going to continue trying to plow through and hope that on second draft I can distill the essence of the story (whatever that may be)in a more clean format, but right now I feel like I don't have a firm grasp on the emotions and the story that I want to tell.

Ughhh.