Had to dive back into draft 3 tonight to perform some emergency surgery on the basic plot. I realised with a start in the middle of the night that my rewrite yesterday had created an enormous plot hole. It meant that the main character had no motivation to do what he did, as he was actually doing pretty alright for himself. Kind of hard to have a roaring rampage of revenge that means anything if there's no reason for the character to feel hard done by.
It's corrected now. I just had to revise the back story and relevant dialogue to make the character a hopeless loser again. All sorted. Phew!
Darren Ellis writes, except when he doesn't.
When he doesn't he's more than likely doing something sedentary and fun, like playing video games or reading a book. Or procrastinating over what he's supposed to be writing.
Oh yes. He does that last one quite a bit.
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