Week 2 of Sven *sigh*
I’m posting my weekly progress meter a day late because this past week for Sven wasn’t anywhere near as productive as last. I only wrote approximately 3,500 words.
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Clash: YA Urban Fantasy
27,500 / 70,000 Words (39%)
I took two days off this past weekend for plans I had with friends, and when I sat down to start writing after that, I drew a complete blank. I let myself get out of the story, and now I’m struggling. It’s like rolling a ball. It’s really hard to get it going at first, but once you do, it’s a whole lot easier to roll. I just need to get the ball rolling.
So, instead of sitting here and fiddling with words from the last chapter, I’m just going to write and write and write. If I don’t like it, I’ll change it later. Luckily, since I got so far ahead, I am not behind in the Sven challenge. I just want to keep it that way.
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Yeah, mind blanks are terrible things, something I’m afflicted by all too often it seems. I’ve got all the words and ideas floating around up in the head, but they don’t like to translate to the written word.
Trying to break through it can be a struggle, but a necessary one and it feels great when you get through and it starts to flow again.
Keep at it!
It would be great if we could make the words come on command. Unfortunately, they can sometimes be impertinent little buggers.
There’s really nothing we can do except strap on our writing helmet and jump back into the trenches.
Good luck!
I don’t write novels, so please correct me if I’m wrong. I get that you’ll write the details of a story as you’re actually writing them, butt…
How do you “get out of the story”?
Isn’t there some sort of pre-writing process you go through before you start writing? Isn’t there a layout of what’s going to happen in the story and what the ultimate outcome will be? It seems too open ended to me and you’d be prone to drawing a complete blank.
@Russ: Yes, I do a pre-writing process, but I know many writers who don’t do this. I tend to do it because I usually get a clear picture of what I want to happen, and I don’t want to get lost down the road. So, even though I do have each scene, chapter and a short description of those, it’s easy for me to “get out of the story” in another sense.
I’m the kind of writer who has scenes playing in her head, can hear dialogue that characters speak to each other and generally think about the story all the time. I like to keep the “voice” of the storytelling consistent as well, but if I don’t stay “in the zone” so to speak, it takes me awhile to get back in that place.
Hope that makes sense…
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