I have the story (mostly) fixed now, but I couldn't believe how I let it explode. Hindsight: I lost all feeling for what the characters would do. I was stuck, but determined to finish it up, and so I ended up writing every cliche I could think about instead of backing away. The whole problem was born of some hysteria, really, and I hate that.
It's got a vampire in it and so the inclination is to go capital EVIL, but that's not the story at all. He's as lost as the heroes of the story, and to write him in the penultimate scene purely as a villain was so wrong. So basically it was me not being true to the characters and especially to their depth. I'm still uncomfortable with myself about it, but not sure it won't happen again.
In some respect, I'd say your experience has quite a lot to do with what I'm talking about. The characters weren't going off on their own, but I wasn't following up what I started for them. Not tracing the logical evolution of them based on what I had laid out so far.
Also I was thinking I needed a bigger ending, maybe something bloody, but in the end that's exactly what I didn't need. Which is harder to write for me.
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Date: 2010-05-04 12:19 pm (UTC)It's got a vampire in it and so the inclination is to go capital EVIL, but that's not the story at all. He's as lost as the heroes of the story, and to write him in the penultimate scene purely as a villain was so wrong.
So basically it was me not being true to the characters and especially to their depth. I'm still uncomfortable with myself about it, but not sure it won't happen again.
In some respect, I'd say your experience has quite a lot to do with what I'm talking about. The characters weren't going off on their own, but I wasn't following up what I started for them. Not tracing the logical evolution of them based on what I had laid out so far.
Also I was thinking I needed a bigger ending, maybe something bloody, but in the end that's exactly what I didn't need. Which is harder to write for me.