Paring Plot Points

Wow. What a year this has been. I resolve to not judge myself for all the time gone by, but to pick up and continue on with a promise to continue, and continue continuing until I accomplish this great task of creating a novel. And there it is.

So, finding my way back to Ireland proved easy in my mind and effortless in my heart. And now a remarkably important section has been wonderfully edited and whittled down to a genius point. I have spent the last few months tossing around the particulars of one character's past, and it came into a clear neat little package this morning!!

I am so very relieved and excited to move on from this section and return to the main thread of the plot. Because while I was trying to figure it out, I found I wasn't able to devote time or attention to any other part of the plot. It was as if I had to spend my energy focusing on this part before I could move on to anything else. I've never experienced anything like it before, but as long as it keeps the story's inertia moving, I'll be able to adapt if it happens again. And now it's done!

It was crazy! It seemed like the whole time I thought it needed to be this long-winded explanation of soooo much and every particular had to be developed and put out there, but when it all came down to it, it was quite the opposite. All this time and brainstorming spent on every different aspect of this particular time in this specific character's life, pages and pages of notes and pages and pages of text, all of it to be succinctly pared into one. single. page. One single scene was all I needed to do the job. I know more will be revealed later, but that's where I was getting lost. I was trying to cram it all in at once. And it had been all wrong. And now, one page did it perfectly.

I do know and am grateful for all the pages of notes and text, however, because I also realize that is where the ability to work the magic of showing the reader characters, instead of telling the reader about characters was able to rise. I feel excited and accomplished about this development today! This was a lot of work and now I can move on! Just thought I'd drop a note here about it. Sending love to all!!

Thank you :) and

cheers