Playing around
| Okay so I should be writing on Broken Cowboy cause I think I am on a roll but alas I have coem to a "what the hell do I do now?" moment. The hero and heroine are playing house becasue ex-hubby is in town and thinks he can just take back the wife and son he wants and get rid of the son he doens't. thing is wifey doesn't want him, but doesn't want to push him to where he never has anything to do with his son, while keeping in mind that the son that isn't biologically his still needs a father figure. But something magnificent needs to happen here. Something that makes heroine come to the conclusion that sometimes people aren't meant to be parents and be okay with the fact that she loves her boys and they don't need any old male as a father figure, but somebody who is a good role model and father figure (a stand up guy). If I could just write it. I guess I just don't want it to come out sounding cliched or overdone like so many other stories. I want it to be original. The ex-hubby wasn't abusive, he was merely an azz who ran off with his secretary then was later dumped cause she found Pablo the pool man more interesting than a staunchy suit. |
posted by Paula at 10:25 AM
Comments on "Playing around"
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Chimera said ... (12:27 PM) :
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Unknown said ... (2:21 PM) :
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Amie Stuart said ... (3:38 PM) :
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Anonymous said ... (5:08 PM) :
post a commentWriter's block. Happens to all of us.
Try this: Write it anyway. Just get the scenario down "on paper" and then move on to the next part of the story. The cliched stuff will re-write itself in your mind while you're working on something else, and then you can go back and fix it.
Or: Do it "duck soup style" -- my personal favorite. Leave it alone, jump ahead to the next part of the story and write that, and the details of what you left out will usually write themselves into the plot without your thinking about them. Then you can go back and fix it.
One of the advantages of word processing on a computer, as opposed to typewriters, is that editing and re-writing are sooooo much easier.
Here are some options:
ex is openly rude to the brother, making the son the one to take the stand. (my vote - he's a smart kid, and it's what she would do)
son comes home alone - um, he's 10! Dad was ignoring me so I caught a ride with YYYY. It's hours before the ex calls in a panic.
ex makes a crack about the leg and boy feels the need to stand up to him. Except two years ago when things went down the kid wasn't nearly so mouthy and ex blows up
I think ex needs to do something inappropriate, but not abusive. AND having the boy be the one to evict ex from their lives isn't Chandra choosing one man over the other, still giving you tension for the story
I'm with Jenna......even though I don't know anymore about your story than what you posted here--it sounds good ;-)
And Chimera's right. I've been known to turn an upcoming problem over to my subconscious and say "fix it". Since this is where you are now, maybe jumping ahead is the way to go?
thanks for the examples and suggestions. I was already jumping ahead to another scene so maybe my sub-conscious will stew about the need to evict ex permanently. It will come to me it always does just sometimes it takes longer than i would like. Maybe the time alone for Thanksgiving will boost the creative juices.