I’m in the densest, most tense part of the novel. This is the terrain that sent me into a dark place last summer. It’s the reason I have committed this first quarter of the year to my mental, physical, and emotional health. I am grateful to say that all I’ve invested in that has paid off already. I feel amazing, like a different person. I’m so much more emotionally stable. It’s mostly from dietary changes and supplements to help bring my system back into balance. And therapy.
I want to look at the arc of the relationship and get some ideas about why and how it goes from a ripe beautiful fruit full of potential to a rotten, distasteful thing.
This section requires major work - blending or eliminating scenes and making sure the relationship and character arcs make sense. As I read through, abundant comments from my editor show me this will require deeper thought. This section has a bunch of mini-scenes. If it were a movie, it would be a montage, a series of short scenes without dialogue. But I can’t do that in a novel. I need to consolidate and jettison some scenes.
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