It's time for another Insecure Writer's Support Group blog posting. IWSG was created by the awesome ninja captain Alex J. Cavanaugh, and you can find a list of all the other members of the group here.
The Insecure Writers Support Group (IWSG), started by ninja captain Alex J. Cavenaugh, is a monthly opportunity to share our writing fears or solutions and to offer encouragement to the other participants. (Co-hosts this month are: Krista McLaughlin, Kim Van Sickler, Heather Gardner, and Hart Johnson.) ...just picked this up from
Decision-making isn’t a problem for me, but sticking to a decision sometimes is.
Last November, for NaNoWriMo,
I decided to switch horses and write about a new protagonist. The fifty
thousand words required to be “A Winner” flowed onto the page at regular
intervals. Then I had second thoughts about abandoning my original protagonist
and her storyline.
It took several months to
work through my indecision (okay, decision-making sometimes is an issue for
me!) I finally came to the conclusion that I wanted to continue the story line
of my original protagonist. I set up my own nanowrimo for thirty days between
June and July. I am now over thirty thousand words into this novel. I’ve had to
make at least a hundred decisions already concerning plot, characters, and
setting.
Each day more decisions are
required, but I have my fingers crossed that the major decision to write the
novel I’m working on now is my final decision.
Are most of your decisions
flat-out carved in stone, or are you often swayed to change your mind?
