Dang book!
ARGHHH!!!!!!
Why is it that some days you can stare for hours at your screen and get nothing! Then other days the words, oh the beautiful words, they just flow. I'm scrapping just about everything from my scene today's teaser came from. Well, not exactly cutting it, but spreading it.
See, here's what happened. I was feeling very bad about the amount of narration, or better yet, the style of the narration. I couldn't get Laura out of the hospital and had myself so unfocused I was making her feel things that made no sense. All day I tried to move forward. All day I kept coming back to tweak that scene. It just read bad, no matter what I did. I wrote it one way and Laura had too much attitude. I wrote it another way and Laura was too much blah, blah, blah. I thought I was just having a bad writing day.
Nope. I was just trying to force a page of notes into a scene. Gosh and don't I feel stupid now.
Now I have a new plan. It's called let one itty bit of the story unfold and then don't pile a million other things on top of it at once! Cause if you are running in circles you ain't helping your book out none, Shea!
Yep, I feel much better now.
Guess what else happened? The storm that broke tonight lit up a new scene for me--with a new problem. Oh and it's good, sooo good. ;-)
P.S. I'm doing an outline tomorrow cause I'm just chasing my tail here. And I'm tired of it!
P.S.S. So take that book!
Why is it that some days you can stare for hours at your screen and get nothing! Then other days the words, oh the beautiful words, they just flow. I'm scrapping just about everything from my scene today's teaser came from. Well, not exactly cutting it, but spreading it.
See, here's what happened. I was feeling very bad about the amount of narration, or better yet, the style of the narration. I couldn't get Laura out of the hospital and had myself so unfocused I was making her feel things that made no sense. All day I tried to move forward. All day I kept coming back to tweak that scene. It just read bad, no matter what I did. I wrote it one way and Laura had too much attitude. I wrote it another way and Laura was too much blah, blah, blah. I thought I was just having a bad writing day.
Nope. I was just trying to force a page of notes into a scene. Gosh and don't I feel stupid now.
Now I have a new plan. It's called let one itty bit of the story unfold and then don't pile a million other things on top of it at once! Cause if you are running in circles you ain't helping your book out none, Shea!
Yep, I feel much better now.
Guess what else happened? The storm that broke tonight lit up a new scene for me--with a new problem. Oh and it's good, sooo good. ;-)
P.S. I'm doing an outline tomorrow cause I'm just chasing my tail here. And I'm tired of it!
P.S.S. So take that book!