Keep a Word, Drop a Word

Or in my case, keep a scene, drop a scene -- and I just dropped a doozy.

I am serializing my little practicey story in real-time, meaning I'm only a scene or two ahead of my readers. This, as anyone with a brain can tell you, is a pretty bad way to go about writing a story. But it's fun and rather dangerous-feeling, for a writer. Yes, I know I need to get out more -- that's a blog for another time. Meantime, writing this way effectively guarantees that I'll lose control at some point, and I just finally did. I dropped a very important scene, because I just plumb forgot to include the information. Now I have to work the revelations from that dropped scene in some other way, and the whole thing is going to feel clunky and weird. It's not too much to say it feels like my underwear is about to show.

Lesson learned.