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08-14-2003, 01:40 PM | #1 |
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Totally Disjointed Writing Syndrome
Bah, I'm getting this a lot now that I'm trying to work on Ice Village more.
I have the next two chapters written out, but they need heavy editing and I can't bring myself to get to it! Instead I finished mapping out the plot line for the first book and I wrote a chapter that's going to have to be for a second book. Anyone else have this a lot, or maybe have a cure? I guess what I really need to do, is make myself a nice cup of hot tea, put on mood music, and set my rear end down to just DO it. Also I have these great (I think ) ideas, but I know that I'm not a good enough writer to really present them the way I wish I could. |
08-15-2003, 04:07 PM | #2 | |
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08-15-2003, 04:16 PM | #3 |
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yea, but now I need YOU to tell me to do it...
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08-15-2003, 04:32 PM | #4 |
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That's interesting, because I find myself in a similar rut. I'm about 10,000 words into a novel I've been working on for a long time (about 1/8 done) but is currently sitting in limbo, but I have another fresh idea that I want to jump on at some point or another. I don't want to jump ship on the first one, or I really will never finish it - yet the second one has an enticing concept that may be more publishable as a first novel.
The cup of tea helps, it's the "DO it" part we all have trouble with, I guess.
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08-17-2003, 07:43 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Totally Disjointed Writing Syndrome
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Also the tea-part is easy, the do-part is seldom finished. I can make myself three cups of tea, drink them all and STILL won't be able to start. (Although usually this scenario occurs with homework. )
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08-17-2003, 02:09 PM | #6 |
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If you can't just sit down and do it and you still want to jump ahead then use that to your advantage. Go ahead and write the idea and then go back and write the other stuff. I never write my stories in order. I wrote an outline listing all the important plot points that I knew I absolutely had to write for the story to work and then when I feel like writing I pick one and write that part. Then oce I have all the main bits written in draft form I'll start editing and typing them up and connecting as I go.
Sometimes instead of tea what you need is to find a secluded space where you can write without distraction, although you should keep the music with you at all times.
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08-17-2003, 02:22 PM | #7 | |
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Freak . Hehe, just teasing you . But yea, the tea isn't really NEEDED, It's just a nice little extra. |
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08-17-2003, 03:58 PM | #8 |
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What can I say? I'm a big tea-drinker but no big writer.
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09-14-2003, 11:48 AM | #9 | |
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09-14-2003, 02:49 PM | #10 |
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For several weeks, I also have been procrastinating on needed editing for my book. I'm close to the end of Part 2. It's been finished being written for a while, and I'm nearly finished with the first round of editing. I'm going to have to add one more chapter into the end too, because I leave one character in such a horrible condition that it would be unendurable to readers to have him stuck that way.
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09-16-2003, 03:04 PM | #11 |
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Oh, Finish that book already Lief!!!!!
Tessar: When will we get another taste of your story?
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09-17-2003, 03:43 AM | #12 |
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Yeah, Tessar. Not nice to keep us waiting . I'm also interested in reading more .
I'm editing again, Falathion, I'm editing. Did five and a half chapters today and four yesterday. I'm back in the mood . I'll be done with the first complete editing of Part 2 this week, at this rate- there's only 30 pages left to do. After that, I'll be able to start reading Part 3 . |
09-17-2003, 03:47 PM | #13 |
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Ah! That is great to hear Lief! Keep it going!
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09-27-2003, 01:57 PM | #14 |
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My harddrive is jammed full of stories and bits of things...and only a few of them are finished.
Sometimes I feel like writing on something I already have and sometimes I just want to write something new--I guess it's best (for me at any rate) to just write and write and write no matter how it's supposed to fit together, and even if you're writing new things everyday. Often things will fit together in a while. I also never write stories in chronological order...I think I may have once. But the story was two and a half pages long... Editing...can be good. Can also be the devil. I like editing other people's writing.... Tea is also good...as are chocolate tea biscuits. Definetly a writing stimulant. Tano
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09-28-2003, 06:58 AM | #15 |
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Find it better to stick to poetry, as i get my characters into sticky siutuations and find it difficult to get them out, and nigh on impossible to make it sound beleivable...all of my stories are short, most unfinished (longest was 20 chapters) or finished abruptly with the death of the main character.
All this talk about tea is having a funny effect on my feet...they're slowley edging toward the kitchen.....
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