Self Pep Talk
I think I know what the problem is with this wip. Why I'm sitting here like a brain dead lump, going "Duhhhhhhhhh, duh, duh" for hours on end.
I'm writing in sequence. Rephrase: I am trying to write in sequence. Which means whenever I get to a certain part, and don't quite know what supposed to happen next, I freeze instead of jumping ahead. Unlike previous rough/first/insaneandincomprehensible first drafts, I have very few unfinished scenes. I only have several profanity-riddled notes to myself instead of my usual clusters of OK MOVE ON THIS MAKES NO ******* SENSE or THIS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS--GO BACK AND FIX LATER!!!!
This is not The Way to Be Creative.
Stern Notes to Self (and anyone else):
1. Do not feel you have to finish every scene. Jump ahead.
2. Do not feel you have to finish every conversation. Jump ahead.
3. Do not feel you have to describe every inner conflict, every emotion, and every frickin' detail in the room. Jump ahead to the scene You REALLY Want to Write! The end, if need be.
4. Quit checking the word count every 4 parapraphs (cuz I'm the only one who dies that, riiiight?).
5. Quit wondering what the word count will be by the time you finish.
6. Quit worrying that someone else already wrote this story (even though you just watched a trailer for an uncoming movie that looked suspiciously familiar to another story you toyed with)
7. Do not worry that you're not making sense because, frankly, you're not. Deal with it later.
8. Do not worry about the fact that you lost any sense of a time line 100 pages ago. That can be fixed.
9. Do not beat yourself up that you probably won't make 50K by the end of the month. Nobody will hurt you. I promise.
10. Remember what the word "revision" means. And how much you LOVE it.
*smack*
Thanks. I needed that.
Did YOU?
I'm writing in sequence. Rephrase: I am trying to write in sequence. Which means whenever I get to a certain part, and don't quite know what supposed to happen next, I freeze instead of jumping ahead. Unlike previous rough/first/insaneandincomprehensible first drafts, I have very few unfinished scenes. I only have several profanity-riddled notes to myself instead of my usual clusters of OK MOVE ON THIS MAKES NO ******* SENSE or THIS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS--GO BACK AND FIX LATER!!!!
This is not The Way to Be Creative.
Stern Notes to Self (and anyone else):
1. Do not feel you have to finish every scene. Jump ahead.
2. Do not feel you have to finish every conversation. Jump ahead.
3. Do not feel you have to describe every inner conflict, every emotion, and every frickin' detail in the room. Jump ahead to the scene You REALLY Want to Write! The end, if need be.
4. Quit checking the word count every 4 parapraphs (cuz I'm the only one who dies that, riiiight?).
5. Quit wondering what the word count will be by the time you finish.
6. Quit worrying that someone else already wrote this story (even though you just watched a trailer for an uncoming movie that looked suspiciously familiar to another story you toyed with)
7. Do not worry that you're not making sense because, frankly, you're not. Deal with it later.
8. Do not worry about the fact that you lost any sense of a time line 100 pages ago. That can be fixed.
9. Do not beat yourself up that you probably won't make 50K by the end of the month. Nobody will hurt you. I promise.
10. Remember what the word "revision" means. And how much you LOVE it.
*smack*
Thanks. I needed that.
Did YOU?