Plateau...like gateau but no chocolate.

[musicaldiscord]

My script has plateaued at 10,036 words. I'm supposed to have 12,006 so far. It's not the FURTHEST I've been behind this month, but it's annoying because I know where I want to go next. Chris has just got into the club and into the corridor leading to the club rooms, with a tall, dishy man. The only snag is, it's a gay club...but he doesn't know

Comments

script or novel

[ozma914]

Write it as both! Then you'll see which comes out on top. (Of course, it's twice the work ...)

Re: script or novel

[musicaldiscord]

:O Are you insane, man?!?! I can't get my script moving and you want me to start a novel?!?! *pokes with a metre-stick* En guard!

Ow! Hey, are those things supposed to be that sharp?

[ozma914]

Yep, that's what I said! Because putting the work into a different format might get the juices flowing in the right direction. It would be like writing fiction in both first and third person, to see which way looks best.

*I* wouldn't do it ... way too much work. :-0

[roonblah]

Good numbers though! You are beating me. I'm also struggling with motivation... and plot. My story is rather boring. I think I should have done a horror. Get bored, get killed.

I've just been sitting down and writing the biggest load or rubbish known to man. I've abandoned theme and character arcs.

It would probably be a good exercise after July to try it in novel format. I wanted to write my Nanowrimo novel in script - which I think would be a challenge, because I wrote it in an episodic way that probably only works in novel.