Slow Week

I've managed to get a few more paragraphs done in between my online gaming.  It seems I'm pretty good at taking breaks this week.  I'm hoping I can finish another page or two this weekend.  I'm sort of fighting an uphill battle in my story, as I'm trying to fit all the right pieces together, and make sure I can fit all this into a pretty little package by the end of the story.  The more I write about the villain the more I put things into him about people I know that I didn't get along with, or people that I know that are jerks, or folks that did me wrong.  Because of all that its a little difficult to construct an ending that isn't based solely on overcoming the villain, but is done in way that makes sense, and isn't just me having my hero just come out winning with his fists.  I want to use his intellect, even more than his body.  There's something especially satisfying in having heroes that aren't just all cerebral, or isn't all based physical in beatdowns, though thats exciting enough.  I think you've got to have both, though as a guy, and a manly guy, I wanna see more beatdowns.  There's something especially satisfying in writing a mystery, or intrigue story.  You're not just trying to solve a mystery, or make characters solve a mystery, as a writer you're trying to solve it while you build it.  Its fun.