Welcome to my perfumed garden

This is no bunny, this is a full grown rabbit with big bitey teeth.

It's a complicated plot. I'm ignoring it for now in hopes it'll right itself because I have to get something done today.

Plonk and olives will defo be needed come six o clock believe me but it's OK, I has them ready and those vivbes feel very nice; all tingly, like sitting in a bath with a bath bomb.

I've been writing a chapter and putting off tackling the plot because I get confused and tearful every time I think about it. (heh) Ah... Look outside, all snowy and the skies full of more. Why am I sitting inside, torturing myself?

Ooh. More is falling. I'm still hoping for some proper stuff like what I've seen o the telly. meantime, back to work...

I'm all tied up in a plot that won't cooperate and I want to rend it limb from limb.

Realising, smashing my lappy will do nothing to help, will, indeed, hinder an already sorry situation, I'm still writing it chapter by chapter and hoping the plot will fall into line without further intervention. Time will tell. :o)

Wrestling manfully with a fully-greased up, 22 stone plot that's bigger and stronger than you by far is no fun at all I can tell you.

It's so damn complicated! I need to have a good look at it, whup its ass into line but... that's like, work, you know? That's no fun at all. :o)

Oh, I'm OK hon, I usually just write my way out of it. I'll keep on banging out chapers till it sets itself right.

Thanks for your lovely words.

Heh. Well I've fixed one bit. Once I stopped panicking and attacked it with a calm mind. (yeah. right. *g*)

The other - will right itself given time, I've no doubt. I'm taking it chapter by chapter. I'll get there. I'm British. Pluck, vim and chin-up are my middle names. :;whistles in a cheery, Dunkirk fashion::

heh.

::quiet, wounded voice:: Thank you

I actually think I'm the exact opposite to you. Writing to me, is the easy part. Once I'm writing it all just flows and it's a fine and lovely thing. :o) Sorting out the details, the who does what and where is hard and hateful to me. In fic, when I'm writing soley for my own amusement, I rarely plot at all, I start with an idea, work out a vague direction to go in and then just head off on the journey. I have never known the ending of any of my fics before I started them. The only one that's been plotted in advance is the current fic, Blue - simply because it was getting so long and there were so many potential directions for it to take, I just had to sit down and decide where I intended to take it and work it out, chapter by chapter - I really had to impose self-discipline there or it really would never have ended (though it's STILL altering in the writing. I've already changed the identity of the murder victim because when I was writing, something unexpected happened).

Unusually, I knew the ending of Blue before I began because it came out of 2 plot bunnies I'd been nurturing for a couple of years. I had a firm, visual image of the start, at the Academy, and the end or rather, the last couple of chapters and where J&B will be at that point, but everything between those 2 points was a mystery.

The novel is different because it's very long and terribly complex. I've had to plot it quite carefully (although it's already changed and still changing as I write - even the basic premise has now been altered because of what came out of the writing).

I am taking care to keep it more or less on the path, but I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks and I'm still altering and fine tuning my plot as I go. It seems to be the way I write and I've no desire to fight that, really.

So for me, the plot is an elastic thing that I sometimes work on and sometimes don't, knowing it will always change during the writing process. Plot is always second to writing for me because I know, if I keep on writing, the plot will work itself out whereas, if I start with a detailed plot, I know it's going to go out the window inside 3 chapters, making it all a bit of a waste of time. :o)