Little quibbles

[narcasse]

I’m trying to finish up Little Cruelties or at least one of the final parts right now. I’ve figured that it’ll be two or three more parts till the end, I know what the end is going to be too but somehow it doesn’t seem to want to get there. The current part is just meandering for lack of a better word. There should be things happening and definite conclusions being reached but instead the characters are just dancing round each other, buying time or something. And I really hate that feeling when I can’t help thinking that all I’m writing is filler rather than necessary story development. I suppose part of the problem is that I’m trying to get at least one more part written before I got to Edinburgh on Thursday, because then I’ll only have roughly five hours on the train there and three hours on the train going to Manchester afterwards to write something. I guess I should at least be pleased that my writing is somewhat balanced though, so I’m not biased in favour of either of the two main characters; every time one of them pulls one way, the other pulls back, so it’s a somewhat believable conflict. Maybe that’s part of the problem though, at some point, no matter how interesting the characters are, the conflict has to end, one way or the other.
Oh, the artistic angst! Well, that and the fact that I think I’m getting a stomach ache.