My debut novel POISON is a young adult dystopian.
It involves quite a lot of action of epic proportions and took me a
number of years to write and rewrite and then edit. The second novel in
the series is mostly written and just needs a
touch up before it goes to a professional editor. I worked on book
three for Camp NaNoWriMo and am having the hardest time advancing the
plot. Due to all the earlier epicness in the first two books, I feel
like whatever happens in book three needs to be bigger
and badder. I’ve already pulled out the big guns for the previous books
and am left with what I can only describe as plot exhaustion. So much
has happened to the main character that it’s a wonder she’s still
functioning. With each new chapter I have to try
and find ways to increase the tension but everything that could happen
has happened and now I’m delving into territory that is just plain
unbelievable in order to keep from stalling. So this month I’m having a
hard time completing the novel and it makes me
regret not having a more solid outline when I began writing.
I guess if I get nothing else from
this experience I will have learned that I should pace my novels better
so that I have something left for the grand finale! What about you guys?
What’s making you insecure this month?
