Orsino
“Come, but one verse.”
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 4
Taken out of context, for sure (Orsino wants someone to sing to the music that has just started), but a nice line to cast some light on a problem I have, in variations, during the creative moment.
I don’t get stuck on dialogue. I sometimes gets stuck on what’s next. Solving the puzzle of the plot, that’s what gets me.
It has been happening to me for years. My novel is a high-tech heist novel. HOW eluded me for years.
Then it came. In the middle of the night, I woke up and I knew how they did it. I started writing earnestly the next day.
What unstuck me? I don’t know. Where did it come from? I don’t know.
But it did.
#amrevising
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