Starting from scratch

[mousme]

:::More writing stuff. You've been warned.:::



I'd forgotten just how much the writing muscle can atrophy in such a short time. Everything is frustrating me today. Nothing is coming out the way I want it to: it's all either contrived or clumsy or just wrong. Gah! It honestly feels as though I've never written a word in my life, that I'm starting completely from scratch.

I have learned my lesson, however, and shall persevere. Eventually the muscle will come back, and it won't feel like trying to get blood from a stone. I have to transcribe the last instalment of BTP, then try to write a second one. Eventually the flow will come back, right? Right.

At least I got rid of those godawful 3,000-odd words that were holding me back in CdZ. I didn't want to delete them ('Cause, y'know, WORDCOUNT!), but they were preventing me from doing anything useful with the novel. Like, say, keep writing it. I still am not entirely comfortable with how the ending is working out, but at least I'm getting toward the end.

I also want to get back to A Lamentation of Swans, which has been on hold since August. I really, really like that story. Better than CdZ, if I can be perfectly honest. It's a lot more work to write it, though, and it's not anywhere near done, though, so I'm trying to focus on what I can get finished, at least for now.

Oh, did I mention the crushing guilt of not having my serials up on time?

Just, argh.

Okay, back to writing.

Comments

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I have to be careful, though, because often enough, with me, "not rushing" very quickly turns into "not writing at all."