As I've mentioned before, I've been working on a sequel to my Civil War horror novel A Fine Likeness. I took a hiatus from writing it for a while because I was a stuck. I had written the first 60% or so, knew the ending, but didn't have the bit in between.
That's strange for me. Usually I have the whole story arc in my head from the start and the writing process is just filling in the details. This time, the penultimate section really had be stuck and I took a break to do various other projects, including a spinoff short story that will be published later this month.
Now I'm back to writing the novel. I still don't know quite how I'm going to get to where I'm going, but each scene has been coming to me in chunks of about 1,000 words or so. It's also becoming apparant that this novel will be longer than I anticipated. Oh well. A story has to be as long as it takes to tell. It's good to be working on this again!
Now if I could only think of a title. . .
Keep on Writing!! Glad to hear you are back to your novel.
ReplyDeleteSlow progress is still progress! Sorry, I'm not much help on titles.
ReplyDeleteGood luck! This happened to me with the last manuscript I read, but I think it ended up stronger for it, like a way for my mind to slow down and process new bits of inspiration.
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