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What's my problem THIS time?
As many of you know, I take December off from writing. After the thrill-a-minute pace of NaNoWriMo, I like to "relax" and deal with the holidays, letting my stories stew in their juices for a bit before digging in to the second draft. Upon rereading On Writing, I've learned that Stephen King also thinks this is a good idea. Cool enough, right? Wrong. It's almost January, which means time to start writing again. I am dreading it. Wanna know why?
Here's the problem, I have two novels which are roughly 3/4 of the way done, and I have no fucking idea how to finish either one of them.
Novel one: I know what I want to ultimately happen, but I don't know why that ending is good, or particularly truthful. Truthfulness is especially important in this novel because there's murder and monsters and evil super villains and stuff. The characters are compelling, and there's even a bit of sex in it even though I hate writing sex scenes. I really like the characters, even though I don't know where some of them will end up. I think my super villain might get exploded or something cool like that.
Novel two has plenty of murder and something like sex and lots of cool, authentic character development, but I have no clue how I want it to end. It needs some kind of shocking or ironic twist, or something really unexpected to happen, because right now it's fairly predictable. I love my serial killer though he is a wankering dickhead.
I'm going to end up pulling both of these novels apart and starting again. They are both strong starts and totally worth salvaging, but I'm not feeling particularly inspired by either of them. Then it becomes a question of writing when I don't want to and just hoping the muse comes a knocking, or putting it off and starting what will surely become yet another unfinished project. Then again, anything would be better than a rehash of that awful Cat's Apprentice. I hate that book more every time I look at it, and in less than a year it's going to be published. I don't know what the hell I was thinking...
Here's the problem, I have two novels which are roughly 3/4 of the way done, and I have no fucking idea how to finish either one of them.
Novel one: I know what I want to ultimately happen, but I don't know why that ending is good, or particularly truthful. Truthfulness is especially important in this novel because there's murder and monsters and evil super villains and stuff. The characters are compelling, and there's even a bit of sex in it even though I hate writing sex scenes. I really like the characters, even though I don't know where some of them will end up. I think my super villain might get exploded or something cool like that.
Novel two has plenty of murder and something like sex and lots of cool, authentic character development, but I have no clue how I want it to end. It needs some kind of shocking or ironic twist, or something really unexpected to happen, because right now it's fairly predictable. I love my serial killer though he is a wankering dickhead.
I'm going to end up pulling both of these novels apart and starting again. They are both strong starts and totally worth salvaging, but I'm not feeling particularly inspired by either of them. Then it becomes a question of writing when I don't want to and just hoping the muse comes a knocking, or putting it off and starting what will surely become yet another unfinished project. Then again, anything would be better than a rehash of that awful Cat's Apprentice. I hate that book more every time I look at it, and in less than a year it's going to be published. I don't know what the hell I was thinking...
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Good luck with your horror novel!