Lack of words
I haven't really managed to write anything in the past two days. I'm fiddling with Body Double. Steph gave me a line that makes a better ending that what I had, so I'm trying to fix it. I am going to my first serious workshop tonight and I leave in a few hours. I'm a bit nervous.
Now that I've made this decision I've noticed that the ideas are still flowing, but the words aren't. It's almost easier to start a new story rather than edit an old one. I think I'll try to slam out a few thousand words of a new story every day. I'll just take a list of ideas and start typing. One thing I fear is that once I type or write something down, it's out of my head and I don't think about it much after that. I suppose it's natural to do a lot of pre-writing in my head. I've always done that (much to the dismay of various Writing teachers over the years) but I need to work on the craft of gettng words out and fixing them, unless I discover a way to get them out right the first time
Now that I've made this decision I've noticed that the ideas are still flowing, but the words aren't. It's almost easier to start a new story rather than edit an old one. I think I'll try to slam out a few thousand words of a new story every day. I'll just take a list of ideas and start typing. One thing I fear is that once I type or write something down, it's out of my head and I don't think about it much after that. I suppose it's natural to do a lot of pre-writing in my head. I've always done that (much to the dismay of various Writing teachers over the years) but I need to work on the craft of gettng words out and fixing them, unless I discover a way to get them out right the first time
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