Johnny Can't Read and Johnny Can't Write

[naomi_jay]

I've come to a sticky plot point in SILVER KISS and realised I need to rewrite a big chunk of two chapters to get myself unstuck. Since I've got the day off work tomorrow (to wait for the new bed, yay!) I'm going to work on it then. I know what I want to do, I just don't know where in the chapter I'm going to do it. I like the current version of the chapter - Ayla's been beaten up pretty badly and one of her alphas is blackmailing her. The trouble is, the blackmail material isn't particularly strong. It's not exactly the sword of Damocles over Ayla's head, more like the butter knife of ... I don't know ... Cassandra (seriously, Cassandra? You could have tried harder to warn Agamemnon about the whole axe-murdering wife thing).

Anyway. I need something more powerful, and I've got it. But I don't know if it will still be powerful just dropped into the existing scene. I think it needs it's own scene. And the more I try to figure out where chronologically that scene should be, the more frustrated I get that I didn't just write it in the first time around. So I'm quitting for the night and watching Almost Famous instead.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is that the three-hour Almost Famous I watched the other night on TV? Every scene had an extra bit I didn't remember! Although the radio interview with the stoned host should SO have made the final cut.

Good luck figuring out the scene.

[etaknosnhoj.livejournal.com]

Okay, that wasn't s'posed to be anonymous, I just forgot to login. My bad!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Lol, no worries. I shamefully confess that that was the first time I've seen Almost Famous, so I've no idea. But it did seem to go on for hours after I felt it should have ended, so...