85-page working draft<\/a> —<\/p>\n— but then you hit page 79 of your proper<\/i> draft, you know you’ve another twenty or thirty pages to go, and all the voices you’ve been ignoring since page 47 just stop<\/b> all of a sudden because –<\/p>\n
a. admit it – you’re lost<\/b>, and
\n b. you’re not adding value.<\/p>\n
Now, there’s lost as in I was wondering how I was going to reach the second act out but my fingers seem to know the way<\/i> and then there’s I’m making my characters walk and talk shit<\/u><\/i>.<\/p>\n
And as for adding value, there’s My characters are walking and talking shit but there’s something useful<\/u> happening here<\/i>, and then there’s This. Is. Going. Nowhere.<\/i><\/p>\n
The word sanguine<\/i> comes to mind – until i see that it actually means cheerfully optimistic<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Melancholic<\/i> is more accurate, I suppose, but it just sounds so… down<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Hang on, my first instinct was right: sanguine, adj – eager to shed blood (archaic)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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