Haven’t quite figured out what this location looks like or what’s there yet. Well, I know what’s there just not where
does this make sense?
If I don’t have a plot point fitting exactly, I don’t really worry about it, because beats are supposed to be flexible. Most people forget that for some reason. But, as someone who is naturally weak at the beginnings, i just see midpoint and ending with far more clarity. It’s just whatever you are attuned to, I guess. I know lots of people can start stories far better than I do, and I am really envious of it, lol
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Yeah, I know they are meant to be flexible but sometimes they’re hard for me to follow and fit in. It’s like I’ve followed it up to point X, and then Y comes but Y doesn’t work, and Z is okay. I have to modify Y then to be a linking point between X and Z in a way that works for the story, and not exactly the plot beats but still makes sense. It takes a bit of effort.
I would like to be better at middles, and at finishing it. 
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it’s the conflict I think. If the initial conflict is good in the sense that it has the potential to keep growing, the plot builds up easily through the middle and to the end and its resolution. But if it resolves to easily, it either stalls or you have to shove in a new conflict, and it never works as well as one progressing one…
anyway, that’s what distracted me this morning from editing. I went to cut my currently blooming peonies:
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Completely. Time to draw a map? It don’t have to be pretty.
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Something I’ve noticed is that the mental image I have of placement is often a mirror image of what is more natural to most people. And it’s hard to define that.
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Yeah, that’s true. I have a story that’s good to go in terms of plot etc, but idk if it’s as good as the David one for the Wattys.
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I like how you define it in terms of character.
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Yeah, I do that. I find it easier to go like oh the David story than remember the name for some reason, lol. Even though I know the name.
I have another idea, from a while back and it’s about a dude called Julio who talks to ghosts and helps them pass on to the next life. His friends think he’s nuts but then he kinda falls for one and wants to keep them by his side for as long as possible.
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I think, you need to write more. You have all these ideas you keep talking about, but, like, if you want a full story, you just have to girdle up and deliver it. It might not be perfect in the middle, but you can fix it later as well.
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Yeah true I definitely need to write more but which one to enter into the Wattys and write for NaNoWriMo? The simple one, David or an older idea?
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David. It simply has 50K in it and it goes father than all the stories you’ve talked about in terms of so what?
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Yeah but the problem is working out the middle.
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Then work out the middle. Look, I hate beginnings with passion, but I fight!
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I want something easy 
I’m a cop out
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I dunno I just want it get to the 50k words/
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You can. And if it’s just word count, like I said, the quality of the middle doesn’t matter for now. Like, I’m writing the teen preg drivel with the same goal to fill the pages to have a Radish exclusive and see if there’s anyone there reading anything.
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I’ll write David but just not enter it into the Wattys and will go and finish something else.
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Then do that? Watty is too short deadline anyway and anything you start now is eligible for like 2 years
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The other story I started
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