Fuck...

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I’ve been working on Misdemeanor and it had been coming together...until Simon decided to change an important part of the story.

His arrest.

He wants to make it more like it could have been just a misunderstanding. That he approached Paley to ask why he was stalking him in the store. And after that it becomes a he said/he said situation. Which on its surface makes sense...

But doesn’t work, because it really makes no sense.

1. It happens at midnight.

2. Paley is in street clothes, not a uniform, so is like some random guy who could be dangerous.

3. Simon is solitary. He shuns approaching people unless he absolutely has to.

Seriously, he would not just walk up to some random stranger in the middle of the night in a town he’s never been to before and strike up a conversation. That’s not his way. 

There's also the issue that if he does that, it changes the story’s trajectory, as currently worked out. But he’s adamant and I cannot figure out how to do it. 

So I’m blocked. 

I’m fucking blocked.

Have been for two days. On a story Simon brought me, laid out in a particular form, and insisted I tell. Except now he wants it different. Almost like a bait and switch.

The little fuck.