Writing Discussion 3

[kriadydragon]

Another two-fer.

How to survive a plateau ie where you cannot seem to move ahead
and think maybe it was a mistake.

and

What to do when you have a beginning and an end, and nothing really interesting as a middle.

Comments

[tridget.livejournal.com]

"What to do when you have a beginning and an end, and nothing really interesting as a middle?"

Good question - because I have several of those on my hard drive. I never write in sequence so usually the beginning and ending are done. The story derails somewhere in the middle. It is not a plot issue because the plot connects well. It is just that some middle section turns out to be much less interesting on paper than I had envisioned and not in keeping with the rest of the story.

I have this story that I wrote recently and then scrapped due to part 3 of 4 being kind of rough. I still like the story though. Its kind of sweet and whimsical. Parts 1, 2 and 4 worked out just the way I had hoped. Each section is about 2000 words, so the missing section is really not that much to be tackled. Hmmm. Only 2000. Maybe I should get back to that one.