Characters with no good reason to do the horizontal mambo. :hump: *sigh*

It does….uh…put a kink in things to say the least–or no kink, as the case may be.

I also have this problem with endings. I’ve got 80 pages of the first novella and 75 of the second so I’m on the home stretch but I still have one novella to write and of course those elusive endings! I know myself well enough to know that there’s a real good chance those endings will come after I write that third novella, so I’m totally not sweating it. And after talking to Raine last night and Lynn yesterday afternoon, I know how the third novella will go, so I should be able to whip it right out *cough* (BTW Lynn we’re going with the shop-o-holic angle LOL).

Anyway I still have to go back and rip that first novella apart. Why? Well besides the fact I can’t get my characters to CONVINCINGLY fall into bed (Convincingly being the key word because if I can’t convince myself they have a reason to get naked, I can’t convince a reader either. ), I realized something.

See lemme backtrack. I got stuck early on (like page three) and decided to write the first novella in third person from His and Hers POV’s, which I rarely do, but I realized a few days ago that his POV didn’t really add anything, there’s no huge character growth and there’s no way to solve his problems in a novella format. If they’d been a single title, I’d keep it and just keep on going but as it is, I’m gonna have to scrap his POV and probably flip it back to first person. *stabs self in eye*

So what does this all boil down to? Knowing yourself as a writer. I know my weaknesses (endings), I TRUST my gut and I’ve learned to listen to said gut and not waste time gnashing my teeth going “woe is me,” because I’m stuck on something.

So, what do you know about yourself as a writer? What’s your weak spot? That thing you might not confess to anyone outside of your critique group? And do you listen to that little voice or no?