Sometimes you find a character who is an absolute joy<\/i> to write. Arrogant, prone to speeches and bombast, quick-witted, and an all-around asshole.<\/p>\n
I love writing this character!<\/p>\n
I am so<\/i> going to miss him when I’m done with this. :\/<\/p>\n
(ETA: 11:30)<\/b> I’d gotten stuck in a particular scene. I knew how it began. I knew how it ended. It was the part in the middle that was a little… mystifying<\/i>. So I wrote the beginning. I wrote the ending. Then I went back and filled in the middle. I think it works. Oh, it’s not quite smooth<\/i> yet–a character from the first part of the scene is wholly absent from the last part of the scene, but that’s quite fixable. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Now to write the final scene!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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