Yesterday’s session was quite intense : in one sitting, I produced one of the two big finale chapters, for around 10 pages.
That chapter, though starting a little slowly (to be fixed in the rewrites, like so many things) ramps up to a climax that should leave the reader wanting for more.
I sincerely hope that the next chapter (part 2 of the climax, seen by another character) flows as well as this one.
I have conflicting ideas about what events will lead to the conclusion : I have placed the players and some important items, I know what the end result will be, but I have several ideas about how to go from point A to point B.
Each path offers different advantages, of course, and I’m at a loss to determine which one is the best. I like some ideas more than others (poetic justice), but the others are all viable. Decisions, decisions…
As always, I’ll let the characters choose which way they want to go, I suppose.

I told before that the next book would be more outlined, and that I would do that while I did the rewrites on the first. Right now, after 5 months of writing, I do not believe that outlining is the way to go for me, I rely way too much on my characters to lead the story (as someone said, if the characters do not take over, then you, as a writer, do not care enough for them). I’ll try it anyway, but without too much hope.

One final point : after reading and listening to all those advices for writers, I’m beginning to get quite critical when I’m watching something that’s written poorly. I’m in the process of re-watching the old star trek series. There are so many holes on those stories that you wouldn’t use those plot lines for keeping the rain out of your head. One instance in particular had me screaming when Kirk pointed out to Spock something he knew and that he knew spock knew. The average watcher also knew that, so they were using a sledge hammer line to make sure that the below average watcher understood what was going on. And this is only one example, I found like ten for each episode. On the other hand, I can now more fully appreciate something that is well written. For instance, the sheer brilliance of the writing in Fringe’s episode “Peter” had me on my ass. That JJ Abrams guy is really a very good writer. I may not appreciate what he did to Star Trek canon, but I grant him that this movie was very well written.