Saturday, February 4, 2012

Signs you have the stakes right

While making your morning pot of coffee, you think about the ultimate choice your MC will have to make, and you feel sick to your stomach because you have no idea which one to make her choose.

I mean. I know what she's going to do. (I am the writer after all)

But, please God, never give me that choice.  I think I'd just defect from life.



Disclaimer: I don't actually know that this a sign I have the stakes right, but it sure feels like it.

From Hawks Nest, West Virginia

2 comments:

  1. leegomezFebruary 4, 2012 at 10:11 AM

    I think it's definitely a good sign.

    In my current wip, I've pretty much tortured my two MCs. I'd hate to try and make any decision they have to, given their options. There's no 'good' choice available. Only bad and bad, but one of those bads is more 'right', if that make sense. Not nice of me, lol.

    But I have a feeling it's all going to work out ;). I bet yours will too. How's BMC coming?

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  2. Sarah LemonFebruary 5, 2012 at 9:38 AM

    It's going good. Challenging. Slow. But good. :) It's what I'm working on right now, and it's exciting because I think it's the first thing I've ever written where every word bears weight, where each scene means something on every level, where the plot is actually good (I'm bad at plots). But it's been tough to push myself that far sometimes.

    I know exactly what you mean about no good choice, lol. Honestly, even though I know what she's going to do, I feel really guilty about it. Because even though it's the right choice, it could be argued that it's wrong. Ugh. Yeah. :)

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