Writing
I'm feeling a bit better than I was earlier in the week as this morning I was able to cap a chapter that I'd been reworking the end of.
The writing has been so very hard. I sit in front of the screen, and it seems as if my words have all fled me. It's incredibly distressing.
It's been suggested to me that I work on something else. I do have a couple of something elses I could work on, including a story that was inspired last year by the Blaschka invertebrate models. It has to do with glass, and tactility, and prejudice, and altruism. I really want to write it, but I'm a little afraid. So in order to combat that fear I'm going to plot it out as hard as I can. That should be a learning experience in and of itself. It seems every time I sit down to write a story, I'm trying something new.
What about you folks? What's your experience of plotting been? What's worked for you? And what totally needed to be pitched over the side?
The writing has been so very hard. I sit in front of the screen, and it seems as if my words have all fled me. It's incredibly distressing.
It's been suggested to me that I work on something else. I do have a couple of something elses I could work on, including a story that was inspired last year by the Blaschka invertebrate models. It has to do with glass, and tactility, and prejudice, and altruism. I really want to write it, but I'm a little afraid. So in order to combat that fear I'm going to plot it out as hard as I can. That should be a learning experience in and of itself. It seems every time I sit down to write a story, I'm trying something new.
What about you folks? What's your experience of plotting been? What's worked for you? And what totally needed to be pitched over the side?