Why is a labyrinth shaped like a brain?

[michael1812]

Don't you just hate it when you write yourself into a corner? Evolution makes the story better, thinking, challenging, finding solutions to problems you never know you had. It's how I invented a lot of cool stuff in the past and how the story goes into unexpected wonderful directions.

But sometimes you just look at your past self and say:  "You

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[nebari_rebel]

Wow, I could have written this post. "Idiot and whore for reviews" sums it up, but yeah, everything you said.

You don't even want to know the plot permutations and head-banging I've gone through with Into White. I had to LOL when you thought Stark popping up was improbable, even if he were in the neighborhood, since my original plan was for them to stumble upon Crais. Chapter 2 took a lifetime to get out because I realized the contrived folly of it all and had to scramble to come up with something better. Now I have a plot that I think is far superior and I am really pleased with it and have loved all my musings and wanderings and yet the mechanics are foiling me at every turn. I don't want to write technical, plot unfoldy bits! I just want to write angsty mood pieces where characters think about something that's already happened! I feel like I'm writing stage directions when I advance the action and worry it sounds stupid and "overthinking" is an understatement

[michael1812]

I know I can do this. I've made it past so many hurdles, beaten past so many walls and managed to solve my problems every step of the way, but every new stumbling block always feels like the last and most challenging yet. Every single time

[michael1812]

Still not a clue though. LOL

[nebari_rebel]

I've been staring a blank page (and to be fair, acquainting myself with tumblr, which is apparently just the internet vomiting all over itself) for a couple hours now. I have some rambling sort of plotty thoughts but nothing good, and I just keep wanting to write some dark fic or mindless smut. Maybe mindless dark smut.

Your DW icons are terrific LOL

I shall read The Storyteller when it is finished - I withhold my feedback for your own good ;)

Thank you past self!

[michael1812]

Then suddenly it clicked. As if I had been planning this from the beginning. I love it when that happens.
All of the elements came together in my mind, everything falling into place, like a perfect neat puzzle.

The only thing remaining is: I just have to write it.

Damn.