Warp Factory – nearly there

Well, there has been an unprecedented few bouts of writing in the past few days, helped ably by new tunes from Down (Down III – Over The Under) and Oceansize (Frames). Thanks guys.

Funny but I have been stuck in the same place for ages (years!!). In the past I have picked up this story, dropped it, passed it onto a buddy to read, took stock of his notes (he loved it but couldn’t see where to go with it), mulled some more, decided to ditch it, re-read it, decided to try again and somehow in the last few days the act of sitting down and refusing to do anything else until I’ve got my head straight appears to have born fruit.

The big problem for all that length of time centered around the fact I simply had no idea where the story wanted to go. I knew the ending, roughly (ok, VERY roughly) but as with most things with my writing it was how I get from what appears to be a simple route from A to B without tripping over all the complications that involved such a journey. Simply put what I thought was A to B was in fact A to Z. As writing goes I’m a poor navigator.

When I started this story I pretty much went by ear and followed my writing nose – all well and good but if you are going to write something complicated that particular route really does fuck you up in time.

So anyway, I’m loving it. Cogs are turning into place, planets are aligning and it’s all making sense. I have a killer ending to replace my initial killer – although this throws up more complications. But hey, my stories are like minefields. I’m used to this.

I have the last quarter to write (all hand-written, natch) BUT I think there’ll be another quarter. The ending is in sight, but there might be a few more steps involved in getting there…