by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Ugh. I have a third act crisis on my hands in the sense that I thought everything was going to be wrapped up soon…and now not only do I have a huge gaping hole in my outline, I realize I’m going to have to keep working just as hard as I have been since the beginning of this draft.
So, here I am.
I saw on Tik-Tok that the South Park writing team suggests that when you’re having a writing problem two words should come to the forefront of your mind: “But…therefore.”
So, instead of just going then and then and then and then, you switch things up by saying “but…therefore.”
And that’s what I’m going to do. In the empty spaces in my outline for the third act, I’m going to keep thinking “but…therefore” until I think of something, anything to fill those spaces.
It’s just annoying that it could be Christmas before I finish this first draft, when I thought I might be able to wrap it all up by the end of November. Ugh.
