Quarantine Project Day 35
Meetings set me back for Day 35 but I still managed to find some time for writing, probably because I've hit the acceleration point in the plot. (Don't google it, I just made it up, so I'll try to define it.)
That is to say, you assemble a cast of characters and push them up a hill until their aggregate weight demands that they roll down the other side of the hill. There is a human trajectory to a series of interactions, and if you've done a reasonable job the answers to what they will or won't do start to provide themselves. That's not the same as knowing the ending. It's just that possibilities for different endings begin to thin out. If a character has behaved in a certain way throughout a novel, you as a writer cannot ask her (or persuade your readers to accept) that she is going to do something that confounds the trajectory. Your characters no longer have free will.
So I've hit that acceleration point, and the words are coming easier. Finding an effective resolution is another issue.
On a busy day I'll happily take a 1154 word-count
(For yesterday's blog in the Quarantine Project click on "achives")
