"What do you mean, you don't -know-?" he cries in frustration.
LOL! My mother (not that she's in any other way like your husband) says this all the time. She also says this when my characters bank left when I was depending on a solid right. I've tried to explain the process to her, but in her opinion, it's -my- book, so I should, of course, know and control -everything-, all the time.
I've had some success in pointing out that novels are not entirely unlike children that way -- you do your best, but really, you're never going to be 100%.
I have a lot of sympathy with the writing-in-installments feeling, though.
Oddly enough, HOUSE WAR -- at least the beginning -- doesn't feel like a continuation or an installment so much as a New Book. Which, for me, means that it's very slow <wry g>.
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Date: 2004-07-11 10:57 pm (UTC)LOL! My mother (not that she's in any other way like your husband) says this all the time. She also says this when my characters bank left when I was depending on a solid right. I've tried to explain the process to her, but in her opinion, it's -my- book, so I should, of course, know and control -everything-, all the time.
I've had some success in pointing out that novels are not entirely unlike children that way -- you do your best, but really, you're never going to be 100%.
I have a lot of sympathy with the writing-in-installments feeling, though.
Oddly enough, HOUSE WAR -- at least the beginning -- doesn't feel like a continuation or an installment so much as a New Book. Which, for me, means that it's very slow <wry g>.