I need to streamline the process, but I have suddenly turned into a night person. I think best after the hour of 10 p.m. Maybe because the room is dark and it feels like I'm in a little cubicle, just me and my thoughts.
The outline is not as near as where I wish it was, but I'm getting there. Sometimes the content I have planned is so heavy that I have to literally step back and catch my breath; something that only Steinbeck and the Bible have done to me. It seems to me like when I read East of Eden or The Winter of Our Discontent, when I had to stop and process what had just happened.
I have started outlining the third and final part of the book, and it's so far the hardest. At least now I have an ending, which makes it easier to work backwards and retrace Carlos' steps.
Since the third part is about how the family has assimilated, the major conflict is no longer external. This part deals with the mixed feelings in the family, those who don't want to ever go back anymore and those who have everything back there still. This side of the conflict might be better seen through the characters eyes, so we see the pull and tug from both sides of the conflict and keeping the family together on him as the family leader. I might do something different and have this in another style of writing altogether. . . but I don't know yet.
We will see how this goes.
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