As writers, we all start off with a pile of these..
Some like to start here...
Some here...
And some start here...
There are days when your puzzle looks like this...
Even though you know it should look like this...
But sooner or later, you're about to do this...
And take a step back and look at the whole picture...
which might look like this...
or this...
or maybe this....
But somehow...
My puzzles always end up looking something like this.
I think you've summed it up. Although sometimes I think the puzzle is a mishmash of several different puzzles and you don't know which pieces go to which one.
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Elspeth - What a wonderful analogy you draw between a work of writing and a puzzle. It's so true, too, that sometimes we have to step back and look at the whole sheep - er - puzzle ;-). It really is easy to get so focused on one piece of a story that we forget where it fits in with everything else.
ReplyDeleteYour sheep are so sneaky :)
ReplyDeleteTerry; That's a good point - especially if you've got more than one project on the go.
ReplyDeleteMargot; It's true, isn't it? Sometimes we get so focused on the dimensions of one aspect of our story that we forget its relationship with the story as a whole.
Carol; They are. I'm wary.