As much as I HATE prewriting, I made a very strong effort to outline "Caverns of Baltatharon". I created a nice, detailed outline... except in one section.
Go figure, this section happens to be the point where I'm at in the story now.
Also go figure, I can't for the life of me figure out what to put into this section.
I mean, I know what leads up to it, I know what comes after it... but the content inside of it?
Nuh-uh.
(I've just written 4 "paragraphs" that are each only one sentance long... I think I just "broke" the English language. Strunk & White are coming to my house right now with an Uzi.)
It almost makes me want to scrap the project... but it has its inspirations with "Shadow Over Innsmouth", my favorite Lovecraft story, and I don't want to abandon that. It's irrational, but there it is. It really has very little in common with Lovecraft's fantastic tale, other than an amphibious species that might possibly be mating with humans... but I still don't want to get rid of it.
I ran into this with "Children of Llothora" when I was writing that story, but I simply thought that the section was out of place and would make the reader yawn and stop reading. Here... I just don't know what to put down. I have these scenes I like of underwater cities, a sacrifice, and this is where the narrator encounters the caverns mentioned in the title... but I just don't have a clear road map on how to navigate this section. I've been trying to figure it out for over a week, and my brain just IS NOT cooperating!
Feh. Never gonna get through it if I'm just kvetching to my blog. Back to work!
End of Demented Rambling.
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