Slowly going forward · 8:12pm Jun 9th, 2013
Progress with Chapter 2 of Snowbound is slow going, but I'll get there in the end.
I'm not actually surprised at the slow progress. I have a complete outline for the story, but I'm at a character building phase where Dash and Edward is just... Talking.
The problem is, there's no real goal for the talking, other than filling up space/time. I want to keep a little of it, to show the progress of time and how emotions develop, but it's tricky. Too much and the pacing will be seriously hurt, but too little and it comes off as shallow.
One thing I always try to keep in mind when I'm dealing with conversations, is to imagine what goal each character have with it. But as I wrote, this time it's tricky.
But, I'm going to use my brute force attack against the problem. That is: Write the first thing that comes to mind until I'm through, and then clean up later on.
Either way, until next time!
