One of my traits as a writer is that I find it very hard to write in a non-linear fashion. I much prefer to start at the beginning of the story and write each chapter and scene in order. This is good on the scale of the whole story, since it means I can serially release chapters. On the level of chapters, though, it’s rather annoying, because it means that when a scene isn’t coming together, it can stall all progress for days, weeks, or even months.
The only thing that’ s worse than this is when I force my way through such a scene, come back to it the next night, and realize that what I wrote was such utter crud that it’s nearly unsalvageable.
Which is what just happened with the third scene of the final chapter of One Hundred Days. Bleh. The worst part is that it’s a simple scene – essentially the good guys launching an attack on the bad guys’ base and the guards at the entrance holding them off long enough for the rest of the bad guys to join the fight – but I just can’t get it to come together in any way that’s interesting to read and flows well.
So I figured I would whine about it here. Because that’s what blogs are for, right?
