There's something dangerous about the way I'm writing, I threw out my outline before I even started. Every chapter, I ask myself based on what's happened so far, what happens next? I've generally had things planned out maybe a chapter and a half ahead, so everyone who comes here gets to walk the tightrope with me, because I only find out what happens a little before you do.At first, I expect every chapter to be relatively short. I think it's gonna be a few quick events stringing things together and building towards other more dramatic stuff up ahead. Then I start to write, and things just happen. Important dramatic moments find their way into the story before the point I expected the chapter to end. Once I've got a dramatic moment, of course, I feel like I've got to give it its due, to write it all out. That takes time, and the poor blog has to languish.
Still, the ending from that outline has always been somewhere in the back of my mind. In basic story structure, conclusions generally resolve the same problems that first introduced us to the situation and show how much has changed as a result of the story's events. You could say the ending is already implicit at the start, but zombies are chaotic, unpredictable things. Walking this tightrope, so much has happened that I didn't expect.
As I dive headlong towards that resolution, rereading, looking a chapter and a half ahead, figuring out who lives and who dies, I'm surprised at how many events have actually followed my long forgotten plan.The ending is all but inevitable now. Nothing left but to write it...
