Status Update

[ThisAdamGuy]

Most books: (slides easily and smoothly into the big climactic battle like a mud wrestler on a slip'n slide)

Henry Rider 3:

Me:

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Yeah, I'm stalled on one (that I will need to unstall soon - like in about ten days) myself...

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

Yeah, I'm stalled on one (that I will need to unstall soon - like in about ten days) myself...

There's one chapter that's absolutely killing me. I need to drop, like, three different kinds of exposition, each one leading into the next, and then end the chapter with everybody beating each other's faces in. That's not the problem. The problem is making it all feel natural.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

My problem is I know how to do one v. one or one v. many fights (I think), but, so far, I've been "lucky" in that my "many v. many" fights have been in first person stories so I only need to worry about what that one character experiences and how the fight fared for the others when it's over. This is a third person omniscient story with seven vs. twelve, with the twelve having a better position and two exceptional members while the seven have four exceptional members including the MC ... and all have firearms. A bar brawl without guns was rough enough to get through but this is a freakin' shootout...

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I managed to finish writing the final battle today. Its not the best thing I've ever written, which I know shouldn't be the attitude I take for the book's big climactic finale, but if I'm being honest this entire book is kind of a mess. An entertaining mess, hopefully, but not one that's ever going to fit together smoothly. Its more like...it fits together like it just went through a car crusher. And car crushers are cool, right?

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

DONE! 93,000 words long, and DONE!

...now to start editing it.