plotting

Had a good session with Michelle yesterday. We finished plotting out the story and decided who would do which of the remaining scenes. Michelle also helped me get through the scene I'm currently working through, which has been driving me nuts.

ME: "...so I've rewritten this stupid scene FOUR TIMES but can't seem to get it right. (insert more ranting and beating of head against wall here)"

MICHELLE: "Um, so what seems to be the problem?"

ME: "It's this Maggie character. She seems to have taken on a life of her own and keeps doing things that I don't think fit with the story so far. Argh!!" (I explain details)

MICHELLE: "I think you should just let her do what she wants to do."

ME (after a long pause): "I beg your pardon?"

MICHELLE: "We'll just have to change bits of the earlier story, but I think it'll work."

ME (trying to resist the urge to throw my arms around her in desperate gratitude): "Oh! Okay!!"

We went to Swiss Chalet for dinner; I had the E.T. special. Love that mini brownie cake thingy at the end, yum. Jeff was amused when he came home from work and saw our geekgirl stuff strewn across the dining room table: both of our iBooks, Michelle's iPod, my digital camera (see photo at top of today's entry).

We'll both be writing these last scenes today, then go through an edit of everything for consistency, etc. Deadline's Monday! I'm sure Michelle did a bunch of writing last night; she's definitely much more a night hawk than I am. Her most productive writing hours are when I'm fast asleep. :-)

Kudos to Andrea for correctly guessing that yesterday's Blatherphoto was a young Graham Leathers!

The photo below is of a non-filk friend...any guesses? He's in my Cast of Characters.