Least Exciting Apocalypse Ever

[forsyth]

MAN. What's with me, that I can't just get to the important awesome parts and make them awesome? Even when I was working on what was supposed to be a fight scene, it turned into a chase scene, and wasn't epic at ALL. Is it just that I need to get everything to the point where stuff's in place for things to be awesome, or do I have some kind of reflexive instinct against writing awesome epic scenes? Seriously, I'm 13K words into this, and the apocalypse hasn't even STARTED, much less have the sky burst open with the sound of a million heavenly guitars and have a host of angels pour through wielding flaming swords/guitars and the earth crack the opposite way and have demons do the inverse thing. Maybe I think too much while I'm writing. Or maybe I just put in too much build-up.

Comments

[surlyben.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you need to just make it happen next. I would suggest starting in media res but you are already 13000 words in. Then again, if you wrote the exciting bits, maybe you could edit the rest in as though it was a flashback.

This is probably not helpful advice, since A: The main point of a first draft is to get it done, as opposed to editing it, and B: I have never written, or wanted to write, a novel. So I don't know what I am talking about.