Your kindness re the Academy thingy stuns and humbles me. I need to fix the problems with the last bit then I'll start tackling Jim, but he's such a tricky cove to write, it may take a while.
Hey, no need to blush. Just calling it as I see it and having fun :-) And I can totally understand how Jim might be trickier to write. In a way his motivation/emotions and actions are more controversial wrt themselves. But I'm sure you'll get it done and I'm guessing that tinkering with the last bit should get you in the groove :-)
I'm really relieved about the novel because I was this close to scrapping it - it just wasn't happening - and (telling you this because know you like to talk about writing (o:) it all turned out to be a POV problem; I thought I could do the whole book through one pair of eyes - I couldn't. I've switched it to 3 POVs and it's all just fallen into place.
*g* One of the biggest reasons of why I keep going on and on about POV (since I figured out what it was) is that I think it's one of the biggest keys if not *the* key to telling the story. If it doesn't fit, you just can't tell the story that's in your head. Period. The most schizophrenic thing about it is that you have this idea/feeling/whatever about the story in your head, have it all planned and everything, the characters are working and properly motivated, and still it can take ages to figure out from which POV you're actually seeing it all. Which, of course, you've just experienced. So again Yay! on getting over this obstacle. I'm hopeful that you won't be running into any more :-)
Re: Ah sheesh - ::blushing wildly::...
Hey, no need to blush. Just calling it as I see it and having fun :-) And I can totally understand how Jim might be trickier to write. In a way his motivation/emotions and actions are more controversial wrt themselves. But I'm sure you'll get it done and I'm guessing that tinkering with the last bit should get you in the groove :-)
I'm really relieved about the novel because I was this close to scrapping it - it just wasn't happening - and (telling you this because know you like to talk about writing (o:) it all turned out to be a POV problem; I thought I could do the whole book through one pair of eyes - I couldn't. I've switched it to 3 POVs and it's all just fallen into place.
*g* One of the biggest reasons of why I keep going on and on about POV (since I figured out what it was) is that I think it's one of the biggest keys if not *the* key to telling the story. If it doesn't fit, you just can't tell the story that's in your head. Period. The most schizophrenic thing about it is that you have this idea/feeling/whatever about the story in your head, have it all planned and everything, the characters are working and properly motivated, and still it can take ages to figure out from which POV you're actually seeing it all. Which, of course, you've just experienced. So again Yay! on getting over this obstacle. I'm hopeful that you won't be running into any more :-)