Tue, 21 Dec 2004
Scritch, scritch
I hate it when this happens. Another six thousand words
in, and I'm comfortably passed 101,000 words. So I take time out
from writing for a day while I hone the outline of the climactic
sequence (and do the seasonal humongous supermarket shopping
run). And what happens? I dead-end on the very last scene.
I've got the setup sorted, and the character development, and the
build-up to a climax, and I even know what the characters have to
achieve in order to send off for plot closure and an epic ending
... except the last scene stubbornly refuses to come into focus.
Except that it ought to backreference the Milgram
obedience-to-authority experiments and/or "The Prisoner" and/or a
game of Russian Roulette, and it needs to be shocking.
Huh. Back to the drawing board.
(Meanwhile, elsewhere in webbyland, Ken MacLeod is saying
nice things about me, and specifically about Accelerando,
and attributing mythical qualities of hyperefficiency to me.
If only it was as easy as it looks from the outside.)
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