Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Not TSTL, more like TSfP

What is TSfP you ask? Well, in much haggling over the issues I thought were my heroine developing a bad case of TSTL that I didn’t see coming. I discovered that it wasn’t my heroine, I was getting really disappointed in her you know. It was ME. That’s right folks, the blame was mine. I’m sure DH is staggering in shock somewhere now that I’ve admitted fault. ;) I made blunders in the plot outline. Part of the whole ‘pantser’ problem that can arise. Too Stupid for Plotting, that’s me. Or at least my problem. So I plan to spend the next free hour I can reworking the timing of events in the first half of my story. I’m not going to dig in right now and rewrite all of it. Most of what I have is fine for the first draft, just needs to be placed in a different order to make the major conflicts make better sense. Sometimes in getting from A to Z you skip several letters in the excitement of the story. Turns out that I just had a few out of order as well.

Have you gotten through a third to a half of your story and realize you royally screwed something up?

2 comments:

Leah Braemel said...

Have you gotten through a third to a half of your story and realize you royally screwed something up?

*snort*

Yeah. The first third. And the second third. You should see the original draft(s) of Personal Protection. It was a completely different story. Um, stories.

Dani said...

*smiles*

Good to know that those more talented than me do it too!