Well, I don’t know how it happened, but suddenly the hero is dating plucky waitress Mary. They appear to have been dating a while. Their relationship may have blossomed in Chapter 9, which has been lost to the ages.
Chapter 10 opens with a rodeo and a ballgame, which is refreshing because So far the only recreation has been eating flapjacks and snorting coke. But now there’s bear-wrestling and a freak show and a new woman who rides horses. A bronco-busting wumman with a personality.
I think he’s leading up to an obligatory sex scene. He’s got enough characters for an orgy, and it would be so well-described you feel like you’re there, but it would not advance the plot even if we had one.
5 responses to “The Novel: Chapter 10”
I’ve read some decent but mostly-plotless books… but this is not sounding either 1. like my cup of tea (understatement; I have a fairly vigorous preference against spending time with people in a book who I would loathe spending time with in real life) or 2. like it is terrifically high in quality. But so it goes, with chapters-missing novels, perhaps? Are you thinking at this point that it has rewriting possibilities, or… not so much?
KC – I don’t know what to do with it. If any bit of a coherent plot shows up I might try re-writing. Something has to happen. It actually is well written, just … you can only do so much with descriptions.
I’m on the edge of my seat, following along with the novel. Thanks for the updates!
I feel like you’re creative enough that you could probably form the connective tissue of a plot between chunks of description? But it’s definitely harder than fleshing out something that already has a skeleton and ligaments to it…
Lynn – thank you!
KC – I think if I came up with a conflict to resolve, the. It would be obvious the role each character would play, so easier I think.