Hey there blogger, hope you had a great week! Making progress on the book. Finished Ch.10, almost done with Ch.11, and started Ch.12. The "inciting event" finally happened, in Chapter 9. Now I see why so many books and movies start in the middle, and then backtrack. 3 days earlier... or, Before he escaped from prison...
It's all good though! A first draft is just a release of pent up ideas on screen or paper, then jumbled in to some hodgepodge of scenes for a story. I can't wait to dive in to the second draft!
For example, here is an idea for a scene. I may not even use it, but if I do... Spoiler Alert!!!
Chapter 11 (brainstorm) Scene ?
While Ethan is hospitalized from the wreck, he wakes up to see Kelsey there. She tells him what’s happening at work (which pisses off the boss) and that he is on unpaid leave while the accident is investigated. She has to take over Ethan's route, which she doesn’t know, and guess who's training her? The only other driver that knows E's route, Justin Thompson, Kelsey's ex. Justin meets her at the hospital but does not go in. Ethan can see the hospital drop-off zone from his window. He manages to get untangled from the cords and tubes and wheels his IV cart over to the window. He see's Kels, he called her Kels, walk out the main entrance of the hospital, and right in to the hands of heartbroken Justin. Kelsey looks up, spotting Ethan's fourth floor window, and blew him a kiss. One of her many practical qualities was a great sense of direction, which she probably acquired from all those hunting trips with Dad, before her mother found out she could make a ton of money winning pageants. Kelsey hated the beauty pageants, even though she won every one she ever entered. Justin sees Kelsey blow the kiss and it makes him boil inside. He turns around and makes a taunting gesture at Ethan. Now, his object of affection is with the scorned lover and he’s stuck in the hospital.
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