Remember, I’m still new to this writing thing. So sometimes I am reinventing the wheel or discovering a known thing (to the wizened writer). Every once in a while, I come to a fork in the road of the plot. I am a discovery writer, so as I am writing the story, I am making it up as I go. I have a mental road map about the direction the story will go. A rough idea about how it will end. I surprise even myself sometimes at how it is turning out, a new character I add to fill a gap might end up being integral to the plot as a whole and one I had not conceived of when I started writing.
So as it turns out, I again, have to come to a decision about what some characters are going to do. It’s not an issue with writer’s block, though I think it’s related a cousin, or uncle to writer’s block maybe. This has happened about 3 times in this story “Emergence Ascended,” and a few times in “Emergence Collective,” but the emergence collective one stumped me for a few months LOL. I write as I go, but I also think about the story as a whole when I am not writing (am I still a discovery writer?) In particular when an important scene (like the middle of the 3rd act). Someone I love has to die. Which of the bad guys deserve redemption? Am I supposed to pick up the dry cleaning? ( sorry that’s how my brain works and why it takes so long to write) I have a general idea how this book ends. but there are some situations that are almost interchangeable but will slightly alter my original idea (not that that is a bad thing) but which option will make the best, most satisfying end?
I had been quite productive in the last few weeks, I can feel the end coming and that has inspired me and that inspiration turned into an urgency. thing were smooth and flowing (I get that weird flow state when I write sometimes) well until now. I will reflect on who is going to die, who is worthy.
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Hand-prints of Darkness 
I am exactly like you. Only I have no idea what the end is. I wrote half a book a while back and my crew were at a country club watching polo and along came this man from nowhere with a worn brown leather briefcase and an off choice outfit and he had to fit in. I had to go all the way back to the beginning to make a place for him. But what fun he was. Finding out what was in his briefcase, why at a country club. I killed off a character because I didn’t know what else he had to do in the story. So I completely get your method. I wrote two memoir books: completed, but fiction has not had one book length story done. Short stories are okay but a novel takes some doing. My first book was stolen by someone and the only reason I discovered it was I told someone a bit about my childhood and she said but I just read all that in this book! So I got the book and checked. Sure as cookies. Only he turned it into fiction and slanted it opposite to my actual African experience so … I’m a bit freaked out that anyone could do that. And he won a booker prize for it! So now I am writing fiction. I’ve just spent a whole day on the job which was great fun. Not sure how it’s going to go. Set in 2028. I don’t even read sci-fi books. Anyhooo, giving it a shot. Might ask advice later if the writing bug doesn’t desert me before I am done. Best wishes for your book. It’s fun creating characters and situations.
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I hope you keep at it, The thing I like about fiction is that you cant do anything wrong LOL, if you have a wacky idea, then let it out. I would be happy to help out, and offer what advice I can. I am a big scifi nerd so feel free to ask about that. Than k you very much for your comment!
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