Results of Ruminations

It's been too long. Last time I wrote was back on the 3rd of March, apparently. I've had....things in between then and now that prevented me getting here. Next week, being Conference Saturday and all, probably means another unexpected and unwanted sabbatical. Oh, well. Perhaps I'll get a day during Spring Break when I drop the kids off at Grandma's and I come and write. It could happen. I'm in an interesting predicament that I'm not familiar with. Under normal circumstances, I have a vague idea of what I want the final scene to be like in my story. I can then gently nude the tale toward that ending, working toward this last moment. I did that with The Terra Campaign: Impetus, Words of the Silenced, and  Tales from the Flame,  all of which had endings that I cooked up long before I put them on paper. In the case of Tales , the ending was ambiguous and unfulfilled--much like the story as a whole. Impetus  had a happy ending, while Words  was sad but not i...

I wrote unexpectedly efficiently today. Due to scheduling issues, I got started later than is normal by nearly an hour. Yet here it is, 5 o'clock, and I'm writing my blog after updating my TimeGlider  and mulling over the pacing of the story. I was expecting to be hammering away for another hour, yet I'm getting the distinct feeling that I should stop....and that I should keep going. It's kind of rough, to be honest. I don't know if I really want to go on, mostly because I postponed the consequences of what I wrote about last time (a character getting stabbed) by shifting to a different character for this chapter. But I can't keep the reader in too much suspense--if I don't shift back and deal with the stabbing, then it's going to feel like I'm just toying with the readers, and that's lame. I don't want that to happen. Of course, I could go and write a flashback...but I'm not certain that I want to do that right now, since the scene tha...