I hate writing. Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it SO MUCH

[edenfalling]

"Secrets" epilogue stalled out AGAIN, goddammitalltofuck. WHAT am I doing WRONG???

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I did manage to write 300 words of "Trollstuck," though, which are basically a bad joke (then again, I don't think there's a single good joke in the whole story, so why break tradition now?), and am ready to move on to stuff more directly relevant to the plot. So that's something.

Now I think I will go to bed, because I am stupidly tired and I have a bunch of errands to run tomorrow so I might as well get a truckload of sleep. *sigh* Maybe I'll be able to think better in the morning.

Comments

[askerian]

Shhh ;__; Secrets is just looking for the best possible path, it'll click into place later. Let it rest for a bit maybe? Also yes getting some rest is good, that can't be helping you think.

[edenfalling]

The thing is, I know the conversation I need to make happen -- I just can't get the characters into a situation where they will HAVE that conversation. Every time I try, it turns into ridiculous mountains of set-up for something that is supposed to be a single short(ish) scene. *beats head against desk*

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Maybe I should just write the conversation in medias res and then put some window dressing on it afterwards. *ponders*

But first, back to bed for another few hours.

[cherokee1.livejournal.com]

You seem to have a very severe editor? critic? road hump?
incorporated in your writer.
Also a runaway whatif! machine.

I have no cause to comment, seeing as how I have all of those things as well,
and a "Goddammit you are no good, and have no talent" detractor.

This makes for a difficult creative process, and I sympathize.
Here's to a quick resolve.
C

[edenfalling]

The trouble with being a writer is that one also has to, of necessity, be an editor... and inner editors can get out of control in very nasty ways. :-( But that's not really my problem in this particular case, because my inner editor is RIGHT that none of my approaches have been working. You see, I have a specific conversation I need to make Ginny have with Bill and Charlie, but I can't find a good way to lead in to it -- all the openings I've tried either go to the wrong place and/or take up way too much time with irrelevancies. I'm starting to think I should just forget the lead in, jump straight to the conversation itself, and backfill for context later.

(Never listen to the "you suck" voices. They are always wrong.)