Apparently, heading back to a 9-5 job has turned me into a bastard.
As I have said in previous posts, writing time is really nothing more than a dream these days. I have put down about 4,000 words in the last week, divided between two projects. But, as I work my days away, all of my works in progress are parading around in my head, pretty distractions that help speed the day along.
Today, while sitting in my cube and doing some research for my first assignment, The Masks of Our Fathers took the reigns. This book is a pretty dark little venture into isolation and ghosts that practically haunt themselves. It is morose from the first paragraph and I have written and re-written it so that there is a sense of unease throughout the entire thing (currently 28,079 words). This novel is my first real attempt at a “page-turner”…one of those you don’t want to put down because a) you absolutely have to see what happens next or b) you’re afraid that if you don’t read to the resolution, you open yourself up to the horrors on the page, their terrors still unknown.
Anyway, our main character goes through quite a bit. Already, I pity the guy. But there has been this illusive plot hole that I have not been able to pin down that was keeping him in the “safe” zone. I pieced that little bit of plot together today and now our MC is basically screwed. To be quite honest, I’m not sure that my well of darkness goes that deep. I’m sort of disappointed in myself that I’d stoop so low.
But we shall see. As soon as I post this, I am going to pick that story back up. And just to give you an indication as to where we are…well, at 28,000 words, the MC is bound to something, bleeding pretty badly and is very much aware of the man with his insides spilling out on the floor next to him. And then of course, there is the fact that the trees of the forest are screaming at him through the walls of his cabin…
And there I go, almost giving too much away…
Any other literary masochists out there?
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