I’m nearly finished with Wolf now. Something I wrote yesterday bugged me, it felt not quite right. So I gave up and slept on it. This morning I know what’s wrong and what to do to fix it. It’s better on many levels, for reasons I can’t explain without giving away the story, but it’s always nice to identify what doesn’t work and what would.
This is one reason why reading is so useful to writers. Whenever I read something that doesn’t work for me, I pay attention. What didn’t work, and why? What would have worked instead? I probably get more from reading a book that doesn’t work for me than one that does work, although I do the same with those. Why did it work so well? What was particularly well done? How did the writer do it? I’ve always loved reading, but now I read on multiple levels and I get so much more out of it. For instance, I’m still reading Three Men In A Boat and there’s a thing the author does repeatedly that shouldn’t work, but it does. It fascinates me.
Anyway, I’m solid on my ending for Wolf. I need to fix yesterday’s scene with the improved version of events, get my ending scene done, and then go back through and do cleanup, flesh out anything that needs fleshing out, clarification, etc. And then it’ll be time to write The Blurb.
The Blurb would make a good horror movies for writers, wouldn’t it? Much more terrifying than a blob of jello.
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