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So last night I kept thinking of this really bizarre commercial I see sometimes lately when I'm watching Gotham. These people are sitting around drinking what I think is a Mountain Dew-produced energy drink. Either that or it's some other form of super-charged Mountain Dew soda. But it hypes them up so much that absolutely bizarre things seem to happen, like the scuba-diving figure in an aquarium starts moving and the deer's head on the wall says "Hi!" It ends with all of them dancing around, including the deer's head, which has somehow acquired the rest of the deer.
Honestly, if I thought a soda or an energy drink was going to hype me up so much that I'd start thinking inanimate objects were dancing around and talking to me, I doubt I'd want to touch it with a ten-foot pole.
Had another insomnia day. Had very little sleep and woke up thinking of ways I might be able to get my novel to actually move a little faster. So I worked on that until I got sleepy, but then I still couldn't go to sleep again. Auuuurgggh.
I did manage to outline several chapters and figure out how the thing should end, wrapping up some loose ends while leaving other things open-ended enough that the other installments could be written if the first one is successful. And I seem to have finished chapter 1, or will if I can get the last ending dialogue to come out right.
It seems pathetic that finishing only the first chapter can seem like such a triumph. But after several bad starts and complete rewrites and overhauls of the plot, not to mention probably about three or four years wrestling with the current plot, finishing a chapter is a triumph indeed.
I've also introed the Christopher Cary-inspired character from that dream I had months ago and his friend, who resembles Ralph Manza in The Cat From Outer Space but talks more like Walter Burke. I feel sad because in the dream his friend died, and I didn't want to do that in the novel, but as soon as I started writing his dialogue, I felt like it was likely that he would end up dying. I'd still rather he didn't, though.
For a novel, unlike fanfiction, real deaths are going to need to happen and not just Disney deaths. It's definitely going to be difficult choosing characters to not survive the storyline. I really really want Chrissy's friend to pull through, so hopefully I won't keep feeling like he has to die the more I write for him.
Honestly, if I thought a soda or an energy drink was going to hype me up so much that I'd start thinking inanimate objects were dancing around and talking to me, I doubt I'd want to touch it with a ten-foot pole.
Had another insomnia day. Had very little sleep and woke up thinking of ways I might be able to get my novel to actually move a little faster. So I worked on that until I got sleepy, but then I still couldn't go to sleep again. Auuuurgggh.
I did manage to outline several chapters and figure out how the thing should end, wrapping up some loose ends while leaving other things open-ended enough that the other installments could be written if the first one is successful. And I seem to have finished chapter 1, or will if I can get the last ending dialogue to come out right.
It seems pathetic that finishing only the first chapter can seem like such a triumph. But after several bad starts and complete rewrites and overhauls of the plot, not to mention probably about three or four years wrestling with the current plot, finishing a chapter is a triumph indeed.
I've also introed the Christopher Cary-inspired character from that dream I had months ago and his friend, who resembles Ralph Manza in The Cat From Outer Space but talks more like Walter Burke. I feel sad because in the dream his friend died, and I didn't want to do that in the novel, but as soon as I started writing his dialogue, I felt like it was likely that he would end up dying. I'd still rather he didn't, though.
For a novel, unlike fanfiction, real deaths are going to need to happen and not just Disney deaths. It's definitely going to be difficult choosing characters to not survive the storyline. I really really want Chrissy's friend to pull through, so hopefully I won't keep feeling like he has to die the more I write for him.
