True or false?
Sometimes it's easier to not let yourself have any hope at all than to let a tiny flame of precarious hope be allowed to burn, always on the verge of being snuffed out.
This is a theme I'm exploring in the second half of Mountains Climbed, and it's a theme near and dear to my own heart as well. I'm curious as to whether my readers fall on the side of idealism or pragmatism where this is concerned. Is it easier to just shut out very far-fetched possibilities or easier to believe in the .1% chance of a miracle?
Especially when it's about something over which you exert absolutely no control...
Now, for something more tangible. I just finished Chapter 13 today and my word count is 72K. I'm still aiming ideally for 100K but I have a feeling that will get pushed to at least 105. I'm hoping to keep it below 110 so as not to make it any longer than the first book. I just completed the chapter where James comes home from Afghanistan. Now things are really going to get interesting!
So back to that question...true or false?
True true true. Best not to hope at all. That way it doesn't hurt so much when the asshole drops off the face of the earth.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you may have learned this lesson the hard way? :(
DeleteSure did. And it just wasn't worth all the hurt that ensued.
Deleteeasier? yes. but its no where near as fun to keep that flame of hope alive. if nothing else, it can be called a fantasy because it will likely never happen, but really anything is possible!
ReplyDeleteand if book 2 is longer than book 1 thats ok. we won't mind :) :)
I think you're right, there's a big difference between what's easiest and what's most fulfilling in the long run.
DeleteI think you're going to like book 2! :D
For me life is better when there is hope. When there is hope there is mental tension and therefore motivation which leads to accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteOk. Here's the deal for me. At 42 years old.. for the first time in my life I have felt the full power savagery, and immense pain of a broken heart. It is so overwhelming and complete. It is delicious in its totality.
ReplyDeleteNow there were some underlying circumstances that lead to the split, however the is no escaping the end result. The whole story behind the two of us could have been its own Lifetime movie.
Now I'm either an idiot or a hopeless romantic, but I can not stop loving her. I have loved her my entire adult life. I can't stop that now. Nor can I ever give up the hope that maybe one day that the universe will see us given another try. That wr will see each other again. That this love is not one in vain. It has to. Because our story together can't end the way that it did.