I wonder if the person who came up with the term fractured personality was, or knew, a writer. An intuitive writer, which apparently is what I am. I certainly feel fractured today!
I’m giving up for the night, in the middle of chapter 16. I’m having a *bleep* of a time keeping my characters straight as I re-write. It doesn’t help that I’ve changed Mark’s last name, and changed Snipe’s name twice. That, and the part I’m working on I apparently haven’t touched since I wrote it. I forget I’m editing my own work and keep getting wrapped up in the story. It is good, but it could be better.
I started a discussion on one of the message boards a while back, by claiming that my characters write my stories. To me it’s true. To some, that’s a copout. I’ll have to remember that, when Kat starts talking in the back of my head again, and I’m getting frustrated because she’s 4 or 5 books away. Some poor slobs stumble on without those voices…
I’m kidding. Everyone has their own way of writing. Those who plan and outline probably feel sorry for me, because I don’t know where I’m going. And I know, from reading Orca Chow’s posts, that there are some very talented people who work that way! I’m just glad I don’t. This room would be very lonely without Eve pacing behind me, cussing me out for getting it wrong.
As I put it on the boards, I’ll take the magic. I like believing in elves. Even when writing sci-fi.