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Ugh. Writing troubles.
Had all day to write, how much did I get done? About 3 sentences. Grr. I'm about 3/5th of the way finished with "Crows", and normally, 3/5ths done means writewritewritewriteyay!write. Not this time.
Images and words are not coming. Not even in tiny flashes. I can't even get tastes of words.. you know, where you're stuck on a description but you know you want a word that starts with W or something polysyllabic to balance the rhythm of the sentence or an adjective that sorta, kinda goes with the mention of being cold and sickly in the 1st half of the paragraph.
Very frustrating. All this wonderful time to write and I'm wasting it. I'm going to be kicking myself all day at work tomorrow.
So, anyways. For posterity, I made a list of reasons why I think I'm blanked.
--the stuff I have written is excellent. Sentence after sentence to be proud of. I think that's causing me to freak over quality. I want the next sentences to be excellent too. Which is inhibiting free, creative thinking. Which is bringing production to a standstill.
--vanilla sex between two characters I'm not really that into in that way.
-- a lot of what's missing-- the 2/5ths-- is either the uninteresting, but necessary stuff: transitions, the getting off of shoes, or the way-too-easy-to-get-way-way-way-overly melodramatic stuff: reactions to getting blown, the afterglow. Both give me trouble ordinarily; this time they've given rise to The Panics.
-- I made a point to minimize the banter in "Crows", and banter/dialogue is a big crutch of mine. Can't figure out what the characters might do here? Give 'em a couple lines of funny dialogue to mask utilitarian action. The characters I'm using banter a bit, but neither of them are big talkers so I limited myself to one exchange (which has already been used). Writing outside of habits is HARD.
Images and words are not coming. Not even in tiny flashes. I can't even get tastes of words.. you know, where you're stuck on a description but you know you want a word that starts with W or something polysyllabic to balance the rhythm of the sentence or an adjective that sorta, kinda goes with the mention of being cold and sickly in the 1st half of the paragraph.
Very frustrating. All this wonderful time to write and I'm wasting it. I'm going to be kicking myself all day at work tomorrow.
So, anyways. For posterity, I made a list of reasons why I think I'm blanked.
--the stuff I have written is excellent. Sentence after sentence to be proud of. I think that's causing me to freak over quality. I want the next sentences to be excellent too. Which is inhibiting free, creative thinking. Which is bringing production to a standstill.
--vanilla sex between two characters I'm not really that into in that way.
-- a lot of what's missing-- the 2/5ths-- is either the uninteresting, but necessary stuff: transitions, the getting off of shoes, or the way-too-easy-to-get-way-way-way-overly melodramatic stuff: reactions to getting blown, the afterglow. Both give me trouble ordinarily; this time they've given rise to The Panics.
-- I made a point to minimize the banter in "Crows", and banter/dialogue is a big crutch of mine. Can't figure out what the characters might do here? Give 'em a couple lines of funny dialogue to mask utilitarian action. The characters I'm using banter a bit, but neither of them are big talkers so I limited myself to one exchange (which has already been used). Writing outside of habits is HARD.
IMHO--
To hell with style, details, rhythm, imagery, and le mot just. Just relax and tell the damned story in broad, crude strokes first and get it out of your head. THEN you can go over it with a fine brush and get all the colours right. You're expecting yourself to do it all perfectly in one draft. (I know you don't think you are, but you are. I say this because I have a tendency to want to write that way too, and I see precisely the same symptoms in your writing posts.)
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