I just had one that knocked me off my seat. It's like I'm not wearing beer goggles in my story's universe anymore haha.
Anybody else have any epiphanies recently?
Posted by BoredCrow (Member # 5675) on :
Just tonight, actually. I think I now know how to tie the second half of my novel together. Fingers crossed that the idea pans out; I've been struggling with these chapters literally for months.
::sends happy vibes to everyone who may be struggling with a story right now::
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Last night, before I went to work, I was shaving, and felt a rumbling in my belly...then I sat down on the porcelain seat and had an epiphany...
Nah, nah, not really. The last epiphany I had in my writing was a couple of years ago when someone pointed out that the main characters in my story weren't sympathetic. I agreed---and I realized that was true of a lot of stuff I'd written---and, since then, I've made a conscious effort to spend my time writing about characters that are worth caring about. (Of course I haven't produced that much since then...)
Posted by rich (Member # 8140) on :
I'm sorry, a what?
Posted by rich (Member # 8140) on :
Oooooooooh. Yeah, right.
Posted by Bent Tree (Member # 7777) on :
I had one last night. I was bummed about missing a submission deadline on a Pro Publication with themed submissions, because I have been working on it for a while but failed to notice the deadline, But then I noticed the next issues theme and later that night one hit me like lightning. Completely out of no where in the middle of my wifes allotted thirty minutes of dumping all the bad stuff of her workday.
I was considerate though. I let her finish. Come on, I listen...really
Posted by Unwritten (Member # 7960) on :
Last week I had an epiphany about the novel I was writing. I was trying to tie two storylines together and it wasn't working. I kept trying all these complicated ways to make the time lines match up and one night while doing the dishes (maybe...I don't actually remember what I was doing, but I get a lot of epiphanies while doing dishes, so I'll go with it), my mouth dropped open and I thought "Holy Cannolli!" The answer was so simple that I couldn't believe how much time I'd wasted thinking about all those other dumb ideas I'd had. Melanie
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
I think these kind of "aha!" moments are one reason we love writing, even though it really is a masochistic experience most of the rest of the time.
Posted by Denem (Member # 8434) on :
After the mediator of my local writing group pointed out (rather bluntly) my POV issues. After realizing that I was writing it in the wrong context it was like, I can get this to flow sooooo much better and I am now in the process of rewriting with a specific POV in mind.
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Posted by Cheyne (Member # 7710) on :
While reconsidering a passage from the second chapter of my novel (50,000 words back from my present location)a small epiphany burst forth from which a couple of extra sentences from the mouth of a walk-on character foreshadowed an entire aspect of my overall plot that I was having a difficult time fitting in, but that I felt was crucial to it. Now my villain is indeed more evil than my protagonist, while still remaining an understandably evil guy.
