Chapter 7 may have an end in site? OMFG!
As some/most of you may know I have been in a Muse strangle hold. Apparently she packed herself into Kender's bags and I haven't really seen her since. Time, distance, screaming, crying, other hobbies, nothing has really brought my inspiration/creativity back into sharp focus. I spend a good deal of time trying not to notice that if someone else doesn't come up with the idea that I simply can't write.
However, unlike say a year ago, I can write. I just can't write anything new. Something will happen when the time is right and I will have an amazing new idea. But till then I've relegated myself to being content writing things I've already started (Cause lord knows I have plenty of those) and writing with other people. J9 right now gets most the love. But Fox, Tammyjo and Tran occasionally get to see some writing joy.
I've been trying to work of Child of the Stones for like ever and I was simply stuck in the middle of a scene whose ending had gotten eaten by a computer going belly up. So finally after asking every person I know in person to help and not getting anything terribly useful. pets Orryn I asked J9 to take a look at it. She got it all read and then listened to where I thought I might be going and we decided that we know longer really liked the original ending and worked out a framework to get me to the end of it.
If I can just get them out of the bath, with the appropriate feeling infered to the reader, then I think I'll have Chapter 7 in the bag! Yesterday I decided to go ahead and see what I could do with it.
I managed to get four or five paragraphs which doesn't seem like much, especially since I'm pretty sure I'm going to go back and decide that they are rhetorical and unnecessary, but I still feel quite accomplished because even if I do end up deleting them, the words are still progress I didn't have a week ago. It's a bit like trying to explain the color blue to a blind person. Every time you describe something they can't comprehend or doesn't get it across it brings you closer to the words that will. These may not be the exact words I'll keep, but they bring me closer to the words I will. They define what I do not want so I can write what I do.
I don't generally have this kind of problem, usually I write what I want on the first try, with only small edits required when I realize I've put something redundant or doesn't flow well. But occasionally scenes will give me problems and I end up rewriting a pivotal part a few times till I find my footing.
I'm hoping with luck I will have pounded out the hump I've been stuck on over this weekend and I can get on with this story.
On that front I will probably have to revisit the idea, since its been a while since I started and decide out of my myriad of ideas which I really want to stick with and use. Review where I want to go with the story again and how I plan to get there. I have a definite ending in mind, but I'm still a little unsure on all the things my protagonists will need to go through to get there.
I'm personally hoping between J9 and Luta I can make these decisions and not get lost in the weave of a plot gone insane as so often I do.
Wish me luck!
However, unlike say a year ago, I can write. I just can't write anything new. Something will happen when the time is right and I will have an amazing new idea. But till then I've relegated myself to being content writing things I've already started (Cause lord knows I have plenty of those) and writing with other people. J9 right now gets most the love. But Fox, Tammyjo and Tran occasionally get to see some writing joy.
I've been trying to work of Child of the Stones for like ever and I was simply stuck in the middle of a scene whose ending had gotten eaten by a computer going belly up. So finally after asking every person I know in person to help and not getting anything terribly useful. pets Orryn I asked J9 to take a look at it. She got it all read and then listened to where I thought I might be going and we decided that we know longer really liked the original ending and worked out a framework to get me to the end of it.
If I can just get them out of the bath, with the appropriate feeling infered to the reader, then I think I'll have Chapter 7 in the bag! Yesterday I decided to go ahead and see what I could do with it.
I managed to get four or five paragraphs which doesn't seem like much, especially since I'm pretty sure I'm going to go back and decide that they are rhetorical and unnecessary, but I still feel quite accomplished because even if I do end up deleting them, the words are still progress I didn't have a week ago. It's a bit like trying to explain the color blue to a blind person. Every time you describe something they can't comprehend or doesn't get it across it brings you closer to the words that will. These may not be the exact words I'll keep, but they bring me closer to the words I will. They define what I do not want so I can write what I do.
I don't generally have this kind of problem, usually I write what I want on the first try, with only small edits required when I realize I've put something redundant or doesn't flow well. But occasionally scenes will give me problems and I end up rewriting a pivotal part a few times till I find my footing.
I'm hoping with luck I will have pounded out the hump I've been stuck on over this weekend and I can get on with this story.
On that front I will probably have to revisit the idea, since its been a while since I started and decide out of my myriad of ideas which I really want to stick with and use. Review where I want to go with the story again and how I plan to get there. I have a definite ending in mind, but I'm still a little unsure on all the things my protagonists will need to go through to get there.
I'm personally hoping between J9 and Luta I can make these decisions and not get lost in the weave of a plot gone insane as so often I do.
Wish me luck!