Wednesday 22 February 2012

Vague Outline Syndrome

I've been struck trying to write the same chapter for about a week now. Maybe even longer.

The reason? I am suffering from a peculiar affliction known as Vague Outline Syndrome. It happens when you're writing and the entire chapter summary is as follows:


Tilly is enraged that he would show her such things – didn’t he listen to her at all about her family being cited? She can’t risk it. She storms away.
Tania is sympathetic, but concedes that this is over their heads. He should probably try to forget about this before it gets him in to a lot of trouble.

I could barely manage to wring 1000 words out of it.

I strongly suspect that I've glossed over the entire passage so as to get to the action in Chapter 11. But at least I've moved on. Take that, vague outline! I did what you said.

Now, onward. Someone yell at me until this chapter is done.