things I’d hate not to write
The ending of Newil is approaching. There are several problems with that.
1. My Muse is now really, really easy sidetracked. Yeah, you. Look at me, babe, not at that next project you want to be starting.
2. I have no idea what sort of ending do I have (although just yesterday I added one of those “obvious” pieces of information that I hadn’t bothered to explain to my characters). That’s a problem also because the ending needs to be on the grimmy side. (Yes, I am absolutely certain that is the correct way of forming adjective from “grim”, since “grimy” isn’t what I’m looking for. Me, the English guru.) And it being on the grimmy side means I will try to find a cop-out of “all ends well and everybody lives” as much as I can, even though it’s so wrong on the promise level.
3. The end of November is approaching, and I need to have at least some of the vacation.
So my solution is to have a little writing experiment.
Namely, I marked down all the scenes that I want to write, and that I have sort of promised to write.
Like “x meets y” and “z tries to eliminate x” etc..
They are in no special order. I will try not to kill any x’es before y’s meet them, but whatever; these scenes will have to be shuffled around anyway since there will be no particular order in them. I’ll just write whichever looks best to me at the point.
That should give me the necessary 13 K words, and some shape of the possible endings. And a lot of headache in the edits, too.
