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I'm one of those people who can miss something really obvious staring them right in the face.
Sometimes this happens literally: looking for my water bottle when it's right in front of me. Other times it's more metaphorical, like all the times I spend days carefully drafting a Serious Business dw post only to have people point out all the huge gaping holes in my logic.
The chronic fatigue syndrome really doesn't help, but in some ways I'm actually better than I used to be just because I have better coping strategies.
Most recent example which is really irritating me: I've spent the last week or two intermittently working on a Dragon Age story. I was very happy with this story, my first real attempt at a big long complicated plot where Stuff Happens and currently 10Kish words long. I was stuck on one scene for a few days but figured out a way past it, and by dinner today had gotten very near the end and was just taking a break.
As I ate dinner and surfed the net my subconscious vaguely pondered the various aspects of the plot...and suddenly I noticed a plot hole. And the more I thought about it, the more large and gaping it was, until I realised the whole freaking story Made No Sense. ACK. One of the major plot twists is totally, 100%, completely impossible. ARRGGHHH.
I may be able to salvage it, but it will definitely mean abandoning parts of the story I really liked. Dammit.
And no, I'm not going to say what the plothole is, I want to poke at the story some more in my own head for a while. Maybe if I either give up completely or write a less plot-holey version :)
*sigh* Oh well. Maybe this is a sign I should get back to my P&P fic, which I also figured out a way past a minor hurdle for today and has a much less complicated plot with less fiddly magical worldbuilding to keep track of :)
Sometimes this happens literally: looking for my water bottle when it's right in front of me. Other times it's more metaphorical, like all the times I spend days carefully drafting a Serious Business dw post only to have people point out all the huge gaping holes in my logic.
The chronic fatigue syndrome really doesn't help, but in some ways I'm actually better than I used to be just because I have better coping strategies.
Most recent example which is really irritating me: I've spent the last week or two intermittently working on a Dragon Age story. I was very happy with this story, my first real attempt at a big long complicated plot where Stuff Happens and currently 10Kish words long. I was stuck on one scene for a few days but figured out a way past it, and by dinner today had gotten very near the end and was just taking a break.
As I ate dinner and surfed the net my subconscious vaguely pondered the various aspects of the plot...and suddenly I noticed a plot hole. And the more I thought about it, the more large and gaping it was, until I realised the whole freaking story Made No Sense. ACK. One of the major plot twists is totally, 100%, completely impossible. ARRGGHHH.
I may be able to salvage it, but it will definitely mean abandoning parts of the story I really liked. Dammit.
And no, I'm not going to say what the plothole is, I want to poke at the story some more in my own head for a while. Maybe if I either give up completely or write a less plot-holey version :)
*sigh* Oh well. Maybe this is a sign I should get back to my P&P fic, which I also figured out a way past a minor hurdle for today and has a much less complicated plot with less fiddly magical worldbuilding to keep track of :)
