verbage: Junkyard Dog
Oct. 22nd, 2009 06:45 pmWords: 167
Total words: 3204
Neat things: Janey tries to be sneaky.
That's only like half a scene, but most importantly I AM PAST THIS STUPID BLOODY BLOCK I'VE BEEN STUCK AT FOR A MONTH AND A HALF. I finished the Scene from Hell at a waterfall in Washington State and wrote another one that turned out to not actually belong in this story. And since then I've been tapping out bits and pieces trying to figure out what on earth is supposed to happen now. Partly I didn't want to write the next scene because it's involving two unpleasant characters, so that took me several times to get through. And partly. . . I know the shape of the plot but not the story that goes into it. Today I got a better sense of the story.
Also? Prose is hard. Dialog is easy, I can write dialog all day long. Action scenes, even action as simple as going outside to find out what that noise was, take effort to craft. Perhaps I should be writing plays. Except that there's not much room in the theatre for spec-fic or "magical realism" or whatever we're calling it this week. Perhaps I should launch a dramatic movement.
Total words: 3204
Neat things: Janey tries to be sneaky.
That's only like half a scene, but most importantly I AM PAST THIS STUPID BLOODY BLOCK I'VE BEEN STUCK AT FOR A MONTH AND A HALF. I finished the Scene from Hell at a waterfall in Washington State and wrote another one that turned out to not actually belong in this story. And since then I've been tapping out bits and pieces trying to figure out what on earth is supposed to happen now. Partly I didn't want to write the next scene because it's involving two unpleasant characters, so that took me several times to get through. And partly. . . I know the shape of the plot but not the story that goes into it. Today I got a better sense of the story.
Also? Prose is hard. Dialog is easy, I can write dialog all day long. Action scenes, even action as simple as going outside to find out what that noise was, take effort to craft. Perhaps I should be writing plays. Except that there's not much room in the theatre for spec-fic or "magical realism" or whatever we're calling it this week. Perhaps I should launch a dramatic movement.