Today I did something that I should have done a while ago. I figured out what the hell the mystery was in the middle section of the damned book. Winging it is a great way to spark creativity, if you’re doing up a gaming scenario or even a vignette; as a method of novel-writing it leaves much to be desired. But I fixed my problem easily enough by scribbling out about four hundred words on what the situation was, what the good guys were like, and what the victory conditions were.
All I have to do now is come up with some suitable bad guys and I can throw them all together. Then they’ll all tell me what they’re doing, and eventually it becomes a story. That’s also winging it, but with actual wings this time.