The good news is that the vague stirrings of character suddenly fleshed out last night into an Actual Work in Progress, which I am currently calling “Untitled Ornothological Work of Indeterminate Suckage” (not a long-term title that I plan on pitching).
The other good news is that I have a very clear idea for what must happen up to about a chapter three, and a very clear idea what must happen in the last five chapters or so. The bad news is that there’s this big ol’ gap in the middle of my outline where I have written “???”.
I feel as if I should know everything when I start writing, but I also feel like I could start writing and determine that the suckage is high rather than low. Should I just start writing to see if it goes? Or do I grit my teeth and try to fill in those question marks?
