Jan 8, 2025
In the middle of the third chapter of this novel I suddenly realized I needed Lily to be narrating in first person! and now I'm changing EVERYTHING I have written so far! wahooooo.
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In the middle of the third chapter of this novel I suddenly realized I needed Lily to be narrating in first person! and now I'm changing EVERYTHING I have written so far! wahooooo.
Lily's life is getting turned upside down and the only thing she can worry about is whether life is inside or outside in that metaphor (is everything falling up to a cieling or into the sky? these are the important questions! to Lily)
why won't the transition between these two scenes just write itself
Trying to get the inciting incident of this story to happen should not be this hard.
I know what it is and I know what needs to happen before then. So why is all the other stuff taking SO LONG (literally am only on the second chapter)
Realest thing I ever wrote Lily doing is stressing over how to write an email. An email to someone she doesn't even need to like her!
She's literally going "I need to completely burn the bridge back to this club and the teacher who leads it... how do I do so in a respectful and socially appropriate manner?"
It will never not be funny that I made Lily Hayes Catholic for one reason only. No, that reason is not because it's relevant to the story at all or even comes up more than once. It's so this scene could happen at the climax:
Selena: Don't you think Aiden should be with another church-going woman? Like me?
Lily: I'm literally Catholic!
Selena: Exactly! He deserves so much better!
(As a Catholic who used to be Protestant I consider myself the best person to make this joke. I can't help but make fun of my own religion every now and then)
It's brrrr out there!
Our 10th day of Christmas is working out to be a cold one! View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Re-Farmer (@the.refarmer) As I write this, we are back down to -22C/-8F, with the same wind chill of -33C/-27F that I was walking in, earlier today. It could be worse. We could be Regina! They are at -31C/-24F, before wind chill! We are currently under ongoing extreme cold warnings but,…