Hello 2012!

Hello again, all! Glad to see you've survived another New Year's.

I like the holiday a lot, personally.  It brings out the weird in people, as they desperately try to compose and then complete last minute, temporary bucket lists that might otherwise not see the light of day.  While I myself revel and imbibe, I try to take the time to study whomever I'm with - and usually it's a whole mess of people drunkenly trying to make the night memorable. They, and I as well, cling to the words that everyone says, hoping that for once the world will behave like the movies, and some witty one-line catchphrase will escape someone's mouth.

This year's festivities, while memorable on their own, offered me a few snippets here and there that will work their way into my writings.  I finally decided on a name for my protagonist for 3.0 (after getting through almost the entirety of chapter one, and a handful of later scenes written out of order, all the while dodging her name), and a few quirks are weaving themselves into her personality.

That said, my outline is still full of question marks after the Big Reveal.  I know the choice she has, and the consequences of both (and the subsequent plot lines that could follow), but I have absolutely no idea which she should choose.  I suppose I shouldn't worry about it until I get there, but it's the sort of thing that nags at the back of my head when I'm writing.  Most of the time, I don't use a formal outline, but almost always do I have an idea of where the story will go, beginning to end, with the really important plot points marking the way.  So the fact that I haven't yet decided on an ending is somewhat unusual, and bothersome.

I suppose as I get to know the characters better, things will fall into place.  It's an interesting exercise so far, at the least, as I'm writing it in a first person historical present tense.  Thus far it has proven itself to be a fun challenge, but I think it effectively gets across the way my protagonist thinks, as I imagine her to be a little stilted, and nearsighted as well.