When I’m writing a new book (first draft) there is a tipping point. That’s the point that I love. Once I reach it, I know, where it’s going. Sort of. 🙂 I know the story is sound. And things start happening very fast.
Until then I’m following video scenes and I always think the story is a mess and have no idea how all the parts connect. That is how I write. I just write and hope for the best. There are times that I second guess myself and times that I wonder the actual fuck I’m doing.
When that happens, I turn the story into a ePub and just read it.
Why an ePub?
Because I can make notes inside the ePub but not fiddle with anything. I know from experience that reading a Pages file on my MacBook or iPad is not a good idea. I will see something and decide to fiddle with it. That’s not helpful. The second guessing is never right. It’s just not. I need to read and trust myself.
If you’ve been around my website for a wee while then you know how I work. Sometimes, I have a log line by the tipping point. This time I didn’t write one. The other thing I’m noticing is that [EMP] might be better as [IED] but, I don’t want to change it because I just crossed the tipping point.

I’ve officially hit the point in the climb where some writers start wheezing for oxygen and I’m just powering along like, “Yes hello, welcome to the summit, would you like a plot twist with that?”

[EMP] is moving like a seasoned sherpa now and I can feel it. That lovely click where all the threads suddenly start yanking each other into place, characters start acting like they’ve got their own agenda, and I realise I’m no longer writing a book so much as wrangling a live operation.
This is the fun altitude.
This is where the story stops behaving and starts taking over. And I’m ready to let it.

The tipping point happened yesterday afternoon. I felt it. I’d been writing away then knowing I’d written enough and needed to move … I couldn’t. I couldn’t put it down and do anything else. It wasn’t calling, it was screaming, “Write the next scene!”

There ya go: the tipping point.
And now I have a big scene to write. 🙂

Here’s Johnny with Dallas: