Are you a writer? Do you obsess over your stories? I don't mean plot points or ascending/descending action or peaks and climaxes. I mean simple word choices and whether one thought or piece of dialogue should come before or after another. I've been struggling with this myself lately. I think it's an indication of growing pains, TBH. The more you learn as a writer, the more you apply it to your own work, the less satisfied you are with what used to be your best. Now your best has become 'not bad, maybe good', and your new best is at a higher level
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I'm going through this a bit now, with my current novel, which is why the schedule for it has expanded compared to my previous novels. I wonder if I should engage in this piece of dialogue versus that piece of dialogue because it will affect where the story goes. I fear committing certain chapters to the screen because once it's down it's set in my mind. It's a struggle I think most of us writers go through, but you push forward, you see where it takes you, and in the end you're stronger for having gone through all the pains of making your story the best it can be.
I often find I have the best scene that is just *perfect* but... alone, it only works for me. So then I struggle to fit it into some kind of context.... which is then *hard*
And, really, depends on my audience and what I'm doing. I try not to do dreck, but sometimes, like for apocalypse_kree, I'm perfectly happy with just done...
For an exchange fic, where I'm writing a pressie for someone else, I'll put more time and thought into it...
It's baffling how sometimes a story will flow like water and the next will be like carving it word by painful word from cement.
Funny how in both cases the final result can be quite satisfying.
In this case, if it's this much of a struggle, there might be flaw in what you've already written that's keeping you from moving forward. A scene, a reaction, something that doesn't feel true.
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I often find I have the best scene that is just *perfect* but... alone, it only works for me. So then I struggle to fit it into some kind of context.... which is then *hard*
And, really, depends on my audience and what I'm doing. I try not to do dreck, but sometimes, like for apocalypse_kree, I'm perfectly happy with just done...
For an exchange fic, where I'm writing a pressie for someone else, I'll put more time and thought into it...
But, really, sometimes done is the goal...
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Funny how in both cases the final result can be quite satisfying.
In this case, if it's this much of a struggle, there might be flaw in what you've already written that's keeping you from moving forward. A scene, a reaction, something that doesn't feel true.
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