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As the old adage goes, to write a good story, you have to:

1. Put your protagonist in a tree.

2. Throw rocks at him.

3. Get him down.

In what I’m working on right now, there are lots of big rocks with much action and (hopefully) suspense, and a major twist at the end of act two.

But I’m only just now nearing the end of act one (about 90 pages in, out of what I figure will be around 450 or so, and I expect the end of act one to come in 20-30 pages).

I think it may kill me to keep everything I have planned bottled up inside. I’m so excited about what’s going to happen it keeps me up at night, thinking about what the antagonist has in store for the main character.

BUT I CAN’T TALK TO ANYONE ABOUT IT. (except my wife, in very broad terms, and I’m sure she’s gotten tired of listening to my babble at this point)

Even worse, I write like molasses in December; it’s taken me six weeks to put out 90 pages. I sometimes feel like I’m never going to get to the big parts. I’m hoping that once I get them written I won’t be as giddy, but I’m almost afraid it’ll get worse if I think what I wrote was good…and I can’t tell anyone without spoiling the story.

Anyone else get frustrated over not being able to talk about what you’re working on?

(on a side note, I sure do feel like I start a lot of "is anybody else like this?" threads )