The REAL 'SNAFU.'

[icarus]

... is living up to its name. I now know what J. R. R. Tolkien's was talking about when he got Frodo in an untenable situation, from which he saw no way out. (This was at the Fords outside Rivendell, by the way.) I used to think, how can a writer get their character into a situation they didn't plan? Isn't that what an outline's for?

Oh, it's doable.

It's going to take something get Draco out of this mess. Man.

I think I'm going to skip to Ron's part of the story which isn't stuck. Though what they're both attempting fits my definition of insane.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Truly, this snag has completely thrown the pacing, too. We were supposed to jump to the action with Ron while things slowed to a crawl with Draco. But now Draco's situation speeded up and then came to a screeching halt.

Bother. Writing screw-ups is much harder than writing plans that go swimmingly.

Icarus

[ncp.livejournal.com]

Write the parts that are easiest, then go in and fill in the holes later. That's what JKR did with GoF.

Oh, wait...

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

O.O

I've read GoF. Heh.

Icarus *heads off to write the hard parts.*