Anyway I’m going to be spending quite a bit of time on the train on Monday travelling to and from London so hopefully if the train isn’t completely rammed (I’m nothing if not an optimist) I’ll be taking along a fully charged notebook to lay down a few more words and move things along.
This week is going to be a good week for Exiles I’m finally at the point where I’m ready to write one of the two remaining key battle scenes. It’s been a really frustrating time since going back to the day job as I’ve had a pretty good idea for a while now about how I want to shape the final third of the novel, with some plot lines more fully developed than others. The challenge is not to rush through the linking passages, in the limited time I have available for writing righting now, and just focus on the bits screaming to get out of my head onto the page. Especially as my style is to write in a linear fashion from beginning to end and allow the story and characters to evolve as events unfold. To borrow a phrase from the military ‘No plot outline survives contact with the page’.
Anyway I’m going to be spending quite a bit of time on the train on Monday travelling to and from London so hopefully if the train isn’t completely rammed (I’m nothing if not an optimist) I’ll be taking along a fully charged notebook to lay down a few more words and move things along.
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