I wish I could tell you that every time I sat down to write the words just flow out, every phrase perfectly turned, to form the perfect story, chapter or book. Unfortunately, that isn't the case - at least not for me. Sometimes I really struggle with it. When I wrote Finding My Way Back, I got about 30,000 words into it before I realized it just wasn't working and what I was basically doing was regurgitating the story from Finding My Escape, and while it was a pretty dang good book, no one who was eagerly awaiting the sequel wanted to read the same thing again - so I took a step back, rolled up my sleeves, and started over. I started to have a similar experience with Finding My Way Home, the final book in the Finding My Escape series. The story wasn't flowing, and my characters were getting bored with themselves.I took a good look and realized that once again, the story was starting to resemble the previous one. Fortunately, this time, most of the story was salvageable, and I'm now well on my way to finishing. Writing should be fun, and if you find yourself staring at a blank page day after day - chances are there's something wrong. So start with the basics. Take a good look at your story and ask yourself these three things:
What about you? Have you ever started a project -not necessarily writing - and midway through found yourself unhappy with where it was going? What did you do to fix it?
2 Comments
4/28/2015 08:26:47 pm
That’s the power of writing. Compassion in your writing will give you the motivation doing great articles. I think nowadays, there are few good writers left and I also found out that you're one of them. How people become a good writer like you? I’m a follower of many authors, and I can say you’re off of the best.
Reply
6/15/2015 02:54:36 pm
You bet! I also have gone through the same ordeal, not just once and not even just twice. The truth is, I get really frustrated when I get to that point, so what I do is drop my pen and give myself a day or 2 off from writing. I would consciously do non-writing activities, like take dance classes, do yoga, or paint. What surprising is that in my effort to separate myself from writing, it is where my writing meets me. As these activities start to relax me, i get several light bulb moments and inspirations, so I give myself a minute or two to jot them down. But I really just jot them down. I only use keywords or phrases that will help me remember the ideas later.
Reply
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorThat's me. Wife, mom, former teen, and writer. Free Reader's Rock MagazineArchives
July 2016
Categories
All
Other Great Sites |