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[jazzfish]

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Neat things: Raptured nerds sent to colonize / strip-mine a planet; the job's done when they get things up and running well enough to build a spaceship to get them back off again.

Blarg rant can't write words stuck whine blarg. Used to be able to write and write and write and look up and work out where it was going and write some more, and the process was painful but at least it got somewhere. Now that's good for maybe a few hundred words; after that I work out where it's going and I still can't write it. Spent all afternoon and much of the evening not writing this, trying to bash out the plot/structure I've got. Success was what they call "limited," or maybe "minimal."

This is the third thing running (VP story, Bookwyrms, this) where momentum carries me through a perfectly decent opening scene and then I freeze up on writing anything beyond that. The last two I managed to turn that opening scene plus a bit more into a 1500-word vignette but I don't want to write vignettes. Except apparently I do, or something.

At this point I am seriously out of ideas as to what is wrong with me. I guess I write vignettes until I either figure out how I can write something with more meat to it, or give up.

Blarg.

Comments

[thanate]

also... have you tried any of the local/temporary destressing techniques just before sitting down to write, possibly combined with thinking through your next scene and/or first few sentences while you're destressing? (yoga, meditation, cup of tea, go for a walk, whatever...)