Beating Up Writer's Block
I've been sitting on a story idea for almost three weeks. I've had the idea for the story for almost three months but haven't tried to write it until about 3 weeks ago.
And it's been sitting. I had an opening paragraph. It was crap. I tried again. Again, crap. But today, in about 30 minutes, I wrote about 1000 words of the story--and considering I self-edit as I go, probably closer to 1200, just 200 of those words were elided.
I got into that zone, and any writers in the audience know what I'm talking about, where you can't type fast enough for the words coming in. I wish I was in that zone more often. It sneaks up on you. And vanishes just as suddenly, eek. Hasn't yet, I stopped writing because it's almost bedtime and I need to unwind before I can slumber. Hopefully, the zone will not be bored of me tomorrow and will help out some more.
::crosses fingers::
. . .
::crosses toes::
Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; it's also a "humorous" story, and those kind of don't work when you're not feeling particularly funny, ugh. But it should be more soft chuckling than out and out guffaw-type stuff when it's done.
And it's been sitting. I had an opening paragraph. It was crap. I tried again. Again, crap. But today, in about 30 minutes, I wrote about 1000 words of the story--and considering I self-edit as I go, probably closer to 1200, just 200 of those words were elided.
I got into that zone, and any writers in the audience know what I'm talking about, where you can't type fast enough for the words coming in. I wish I was in that zone more often. It sneaks up on you. And vanishes just as suddenly, eek. Hasn't yet, I stopped writing because it's almost bedtime and I need to unwind before I can slumber. Hopefully, the zone will not be bored of me tomorrow and will help out some more.
::crosses fingers::
. . .
::crosses toes::
Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; it's also a "humorous" story, and those kind of don't work when you're not feeling particularly funny, ugh. But it should be more soft chuckling than out and out guffaw-type stuff when it's done.