Hating My Comic

[moon_custafer]

Figure I should work things out here before I write Paul at futurismic.com; I don’t want him to think this is because of the negative feedback I’ve been getting from his readers – I think I’ve hit the “when you start to hate your novel” stage mentioned in a recent Futurismic article. In part one, I always had a clear story spine to follow – part two I feel like I’m treading water, with no sense of where to take things, and I’m annoying myself as well as alienating the site’s audience.

Any advice on how to wrap things up and get off the stage without tripping over the furnishings would be appreciated; bearing in mind that at the very least I need to give Sid more to do and bring Patrick back into the story; confront the Captain about the hidden recorders; and follow up on the hints that there’s a bigger bad than Marj’s stalker.

Comments

[leave-harmony.livejournal.com]

I wish I could help. :(
I think the last time I actually did any writing was the weird AU wrestling fanfic....that I actually managed to milk a 98% mark out of....in a highscool english class. Which oddly I also ended up hating, and rushed the ending just so I wouldn't have to ever look at it again.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Yeah – the frustrating thing is that I wrapped up the first set of plot threads a few months back, and I guess I didn’t give myself a long enough hiatus to think of a new storyline, because now I’m having to painfully push the story along week by week – it’s not pulling me the way it did when I started. I'm hoping that talking about the characters will prime the pump...

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

How I understand your pain! In terms of the pushing-stuff-along, at any rate...

Unfortunately, all I can tell you is that I'm still quite engaged. Maybe you should sit down with someone and "tell out" the story from the beginning, making notes when they ask you to explain various things--that helped me a lot down at Readercon, when I was trying to rough out the structure for A Tree of Bones. Get it outside your head, so you can look at it/treat it like an exterior object, and the seams may start to become considerably more obvious.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Thanks.