Writing Update: Somebody Knows

September 10, 2019 at 5:00 am (Writing Groups, Writing Inspiration, Writing Mechanics)

Thank goodness for writer friends!

I’ve been struggling with this story and one of the elements that really had me confounded was whether the main character was part of the Marines or Navy during World War II.

 

He couldn’t be both, right?

 

For certain aspects of the story, it made far more sense that he was part of the Navy, but for other parts it made more sense that he was a Marine.

 

I put this conundrum before some friends and . . . it turns out he CAN be both, just not at the same time.

 

A friend brought up a story about someone he knew of who had been in the Navy on D-Day then honorably discharged and not much later joined the Marines.

 

Problem solved.

 

It is good to have writer friends with whom you can complain . . . I mean “discuss” the problems you are having with your story.

 

It’s good to have friends to discuss your problems with, period.

 

🙂