The story has grown wings. Or maybe arms and legs. Something. It's taken on a bit of a life of its own, and like a toddler who wants to explore everything and poke his head into every corner of every wall of every room, my story's misbehaving and I'm finding myself all over the place trying to find some iota of control.
There's a good chance that I'm going to have to cut out a huge chunk of what I've written thus far. There's a good chance that a sub-plot might become the main plot. There's a good chance that characters who were secondary may not be secondary at all.
But true to my initial goal, I'm going to continue writing. I'm not going to try and force the story one way when it may be better going in a different direction. I'm just going to keep going until I hit 80,000, and then I'll sit back and see what's the strongest thread and where I should take it.
Right now, I have threads. But I don't have the perspective. I don't have the complete whole.
What I might do, however, is before I get to work on this again after my holiday, is make a flowchart regarding the plot. See the various options available and how things could go. Streamline it a little without completely reigning it in.
Interesting, interesting.
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