The Trouble With Fic Writers...
For as long as I’ve been writing, I’ve suffered from a sort of creative-ailment that another writer friend of mine dubbed “Alfred Hitchcock’s Disease”. While I doubt there’s anyone who is not at least a little bit familiar with the great director’s work, not everyone knows of his methods, so I’ll elaborate a little.
Alfred Hitchcock, the mind ( Read more... )
Admittedly, as a reader, I would feel awful if you didn't finish "Privacy", as I'm quite enthralled with the world you've created in it. However, I also view each update as a gift that we're lucky to receive - the title does suggest 'scenes' of their lives, not strictly speaking a narrative - so if you felt the need to abstain or recharge or take a break, in no way should you feel bad or guilty about it.
I'm not a writer, just an avid reader, but in a small way I do understand 'the big buildup leading to stymied action' feeling. I feel that way sometimes when I find myself overplanning an event or a project - I get too saturated in the details and actually doing the thing seems like an unpleasant afterthought. Since you wrote that there's nothing to skip ahead to between the last scene you wrote and what comes next, I wonder if it would help to jump backward a little - these past several scenes have been consecutive events. What if instead of moving forward you went back to two chronological scenes that had a time gap between them? There's a lot left unwritten about what transpired during Lilly's first few years, birth, then baby steps, then she was almost four years old; filling in some C/K, C/K/L, or C/L moments might help and would certainly be of interest to those following the story.
In any case, I hope this becomes less of a chore. A belated Merry Christmas to you, and Happy New Year! Now I'm off to read your other recent posts here.
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