Visions of the future. That's what I got for Bryony yesterday. As I've stated before, I know where the story is going, could pretty much write the final couple of scenes right now. But if I had to write a summary of the entire story, it would be very detail-heavy at the front, and more and more general toward the end.
That's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. Part of the fun of the writing process is the creativity that comes along with the process of composition. As I write, I'm taking those general statements and turning them into full-blown narrative, discovering new aspects to the story along the way.
But sometimes, a pulse of creativity runs down the entire length of the story, and that's what happened yesterday. I can't claim that I got a lot of words down, but I did achieve a new clarity of vision that will make what I write from here on out that much better.
I also know my stopping place. Not a permanent one, but a place where I'm going to step away from Bryony for a time and work on something else. I'll need to charge up my Bryony battery (batteryony?), and I think the best way to do that is to keep writing--but to write something else. I'm thinking, though, that my stopping place is easily months away. And when I'm done, I should have a complete "chunk" of story, something with a defined beginning, middle, and end. Not the whole story, but a good part of it.
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