I love it when the pieces fall into place.

[Bartholomew]

I am working on a mid-level outline, getting ready to prepare a second draft of my novel, Spider Slayer (AKA, Mana Engine). This logic problem solved itself in my spread-sheet. I've ressurected a character I had discarded, and now he's the perfect bridge for a hole I had in the plot.

I love writing.

[Sophia]

:)

I love how so many writers have these breakthroughs with their writing, and then pretty much all of them end it with saying, "I love writing". Good for you, Bartholomew.

[Phaeal]

This is why I love speedwriting outlines. Somehow the manic heedlessness always jars something loose. ;)

[Bartholomew]

I suspect my cough syrup may have had something to do with it.

[IdiotsRUs]

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

PS: I had a similar experience when my doc put me on a legal version of amphetamine. Can't think why. :D

[third person]

I've the urge to go aardvark hunting.

[Maxinquaye]

http://www.suni-ridge.org.za/images/aardvark.jpg

Why would anyone want to hunt that thing?

[IdiotsRUs]

We could go Hunting The Snark instead?

[BrooklynLee]

The best feeling.

[Cliff Face]

Legal amphetamines huh?

*gets out pen and notebook* Go on...

[Sevilla]

Cough syrup? Hmm.. I actually have a cough... maybe it will work for me, too :D

[Trauntj]

I had a sense of this where I recently filled out enough information for my first WIP outline for a full plot to come together so I can finally start writing. It amazed me because it didn't seem like something I would imagine myself, it seems like something I'd find in a bookstore that someone else wrote and wishing I could come up with. That alone makes me want to finally begin writing it.

[shaldna]

http://www.suni-ridge.org.za/images/aardvark.jpg

Why would anyone want to hunt that thing?


I hear they're tasty

[kaitie]

I love that, too. Isn't it amazing how that sorta thing happens? It seems like the solutions end up fixing so many things at once. I've had a couple of plot issues in my current story, and each time the solutions have ended up making the story even better. I just love it. :D

[MMWyrm]

That's why writing is magic. :)

It truly is the best feeling in the world when things just pop into your head that solves all your plot problems. Like plot-hole patch and the steamroller of creativity. (Now I've gone too far.)

[kaitie]

What always amazes me is how well those fixes work. Usually when I'm stumped on something, I'm looking for anything that can patch up the hole and not make it too weak in the process. Then the patch ends up being something that not only fixes the hole, but reinforces the entire structure. It's just so cool.

[josephwise]

That's why I love the query-writing process, too. If the story doesn't make simple sense there, you know there's something you need to fix in the actual novel. It helps to focus the Overall.

[Snowstorm]

I love how the littlest tidbit fills a plot hole and causes a major plot shift somewhere else in the novel that vastly spikes the tension somewhere else in the novel. Woo hoo!