first there is a plan, then there is no plan, then there is

There’s more of my new story up.

I had intended to post this new part sooner. I mean, I knew exactly what was going to happen in the scene; I was just stuck on point of view. I knew what all the actors would do and say, but I had no idea where to put the camera.

The scene has two visitors coming to see three roommates, but it didn’t work with the visitors just showing up. You need to see the roommates first.

But my problem was that I had a plan.

My plan was to follow the overall structure of Stevie One, where each of the early chapters was from the third person limited POV of a single character. And that wasn’t working here. The actual visit, which is in the nature of an investigation, has to be shown from the POV of the visitors…

In the immortal words of Doc Sportello (who would have been right at home in this particular investigation), I was, like, overthinking myself into brainfreeze, here.

So, dump the plan, loosen up the POVs, show the three roommates wandering into the same bed in the middle of the night, then go to the investigation part the next morning.

Orson Welles said that whenever he started to make a picture, he always made a plan. Then he always ended up having to throw it out, but he always made it.

He understood some things, that’s for sure.

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