Word Count. Journeys and problems.

My characters’ world lives in an expansive world of forests, and streets, and sand dunes in my head. Their challenges and joys and obstacles are floating and landing and taking off again, sending me into madness. How do I know how to finish a story that exists in three dimensions?

I taped three sheets of paper in a horizontal fashion. Titled it “Their Journey,” and wrote individual events on green sticky notes, then the feeling on the pink sticky note. This organization helped me to see the progression of events, and importantly, the progression of tension. I saw that my character was going to a lot of meetings! Might have to fix that.

Today, I plotted my character’s journey in their chosen sport, and decided they needed a personal obstacle that they were trying to overcome throughout the story. Perhaps this is a solution to the need for tension, but it definitely presents the problem of how do I work this challenge into the rest of the story.

“problems, problems, problems…"

Total number of words: 33130.