Slowly...slowly...the end draws near...

Man, I'm fighting to finish FRT in FD. I'm at page 81 of 115 pages, and the program has gone complete squirrelly on me. I can work with it, but it's requiring a lot more effort. Line by line effort. Also, none of my keyboard shortcuts are working, so everything is point and click on the mouse.

I've gotten to where I don't only save it, I do a save as to reopen it and make certain it's being saved right. Doing this type of reformatting is tedious and mind-bending...but I'm getting there.

That said...I do like how solid the story is. And the characters are working with me to make it better. Something that happened, today, was a moment between Damon and his current girlfriend, Celia. It was supposed to end on a quiet note...but instead she got pissed and slapped him. And it made the moment work just right, because he was being a shit to her...albeit for good reasons. It also factors in better, later.

I could see turning this into a book. Explore Damon's background more, like with his parents. I toss off their influence on him with a couple lines in some dialogue with Graham, his director friend. That could be a whole chapter unto itself. And how his relationship with his ex-wife deteriorated, not from hatefulness or dislike or even falling out of love, but from a shifting of priorities on his part and her unwillingness to let that define her.

I love it when the characters do things for me.