ksmith | Wednesday

After plowing through 4 chapters this weekend, I hit the brick wall of "the chapter that needs to be rewrit whole." Then I thought about it and thought about it, and I think I can pull in some stuff from the old draft. Still going to need a lot of tweaking, but it will save some time. And a scene I had wanted to add the first time through that didn't fit, will fit in now.

That being said, I still need to create the first scene, which is a decisive argument. I've discussed writing arguments before. They're hard, because arguing characters need to break the rules of argument in that they're going for the jugular/fighting dirty while at the same time not repeating themselves, sputtering, and engaging in all those other verbal hangups that occur when strong emotions are involved.

This is a major argument. What remains afterward is irretrieveably broken. Timing, words, order of escalation--all matter a lot. And I thought it would be loud, but I don't think it will be. It's loud at the start, but then things go quiet. Because it's all been said before, and the parties involved finally realize that it would be a waste to say it again.