Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Cats Puppies and Persistence
Draft Number 6,732 (a very slight exaggeration, I assure you) of the Dark Elf synopsis is going pretty well. But now I'm at the ending part where I've slashed everything I already wrote 6,731 different ways before in favor of ... uh. That's the problem. I hate endings. Which puts me in mind of my puppy, the little cutie, who insists time after time in bouncing over to greet the mean orange cat. Her name is Miss Violet. All 5 times the puppy has bounced over to say hello to Missy Vee, he gets swiped across the nose. And yet, he persist in this apparent delusion that THIS time for SURE, she will decide she likes him. The synopsis is Missy Vee, the mean orange cat. I am the bouncing puppy convinced that at LAST I will have an ending for the stupid synopsis. Why, oh, why, can I not just write: I guarantee this book will end right about here, and that all will come right on the last page. Hankies for everyone.
Every damn time, those endings hurt.
Every damn time, those endings hurt.
posted by Carolyn @ 3/07/2006 10:00:00 PM Permalink
Comments:
You're generous with your synopses. Me? I just want to give the characters, the first three chapters (which I probably have written), maybe a few other little facts, and then say: "And then some stuff happens until the book ends with a dramatic climax and a happily ever after for the hero and heroine. The End."
IOW, I feel your pain on the synopsis.
Patti
IOW, I feel your pain on the synopsis.
Patti
Why oh why do both those endings remind me of Yadda, Yadda, Yadda?
Carolyn that poor puppy. You have a regular Garfield and Odie on your hands.
Although, your story of the great Ms. Vee got me thinking....isn't it funny how most of life is that way. We bound towards something, get swiped up-besides the nose and then boom we bound towards it again.(Almost all fiction seems to play out this way also.)
Sometimes you're the puppy sometimes you're Ms. Vee *grin*.
Good luck with draft # 6733...& here's hoping you'll become Ms. Vee with that ever allusive ending.
;-)
Mel
Carolyn that poor puppy. You have a regular Garfield and Odie on your hands.
Although, your story of the great Ms. Vee got me thinking....isn't it funny how most of life is that way. We bound towards something, get swiped up-besides the nose and then boom we bound towards it again.(Almost all fiction seems to play out this way also.)
Sometimes you're the puppy sometimes you're Ms. Vee *grin*.
Good luck with draft # 6733...& here's hoping you'll become Ms. Vee with that ever allusive ending.
;-)
Mel
Argh! I'm wrestling with it. But I think I worked it out at the gym. Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone in this misery...
Post a Comment
