Blocked
I have many friends who write novels. I’ve never written one. I’ve started several, but never come close to completing a draft. Today it feels like I’m just not cut out for novel writing. I have a cool character and a cool main idea and a cool setting. I even have some ideas about the main conflict. But when I sat down to write an outline so that I could start drafting it went something like this:
Chapter 1 Cool Character!
Chapter 2 Cool Character arrives in Cool Setting!
Chapter 3 Cool Character meets ancillary Characters!
Chapter 4 – 13 Um… some stuff happens, not sure what, but I have vague ideas.
Chapter 14 Climactic chapter that I’m sure will be Cool! …if only I can figure out what it is for certain.
Chapter 15 Epilogue in which I tie off all those loose ends… once I know what they are.
I wanted to write this now. I wanted to create a book for Link the way I made one for Gleek. But I’m afraid that the ideas won’t connect properly until long after Link ceases to need it.
Sigh. I should probably go back to turning blog entries into essays. At least there my brain seems wired correctly to make useful connections between seemingly unrelated events.