franhawthorne OP t1_iwihbdb wrote on November 15, 2022 at 9:45 PM

Reply to comment by PMzyox in I’m Fran Hawthorne: I used to write award-winning nonfiction about consumer activism, the financial world, and the drug industry, but now I’m having much more fun writing novels. AMA about writing by franhawthorne

I'm glad you love your story and have felt inspired in writing parts of it. But you can't wait to be inspired for the rest of it.

I have my more-favorite and less-loved scenes and chapters, of course, and I understand that not every chapter will gallop for you. But are you sure that the slower ones actually need "trashy filler"? Okay, you need to take a break between brilliant Chapter 8 and brilliant Chapter 10 to give your hero a moment to pull all the clues together (and your reader a moment to catch her breath), or to move from CA to Chi. But maybe you can take care of that necessary plot movement in just a couple of sharp pages. How much of the "filler" content is truly necessary?

So that's some advice to get started. I hope it helps.

PMzyox t1_iwiqzxg wrote on November 15, 2022 at 10:52 PM

Thank you, I really appreciate the response. This actually will help me. I’ve had a lingering suspicion that if I can’t get excited about something I really just need to reevaluate it’s relevance to the plot.