Lost my superpower…
Annnnnnd type!
GO! Go fingers, go!
Erm…SHAZAM!
Nope. Nothing.
By the power of Grayskull!!
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Dammit, no matter what I try I can’t seem to get back into my current novel. I’m desperate to continue writing this one as it ‘seemed’, at the time, to be an easy one to knock out a first draft! HA! Why did I fall for that old chestnut?
This one started as a nano novel, and I was progressing nicely until…yep, you’ve guessed it…nanowrimo ended. So why can’t I get back into it? Well, the normal excuses really:
– I don’t have the time
– I’m not in the mood
– It’s not heading anywhere
– I want to work on something else
– And the old favourite…what’s the point, its crap anyway
What are your standard excuses then? The usual or do you have some personal unique favourites?
The funny thing about stalling on this novel is that I’m re-examining some of my other WIP. I have the sudden urge to jump back into old novels and get them done and dusted…because they’d be much easier to finish than this one! It’s amazing how many lies writers fall for, when we really want to believe them.
*sigh*
Anyway, crappy rant over…see I can’t even write good blog posts at the moment! Guess I’ll go have another look at those old novels.
One more thing…
Izzy wizzy let’s get busy…
NOTHING!
Bah!
Rawr!
My usual excuses sound spookily like yours. At the moment i'm writing the fourth in a series and two stand-alones that are completely unrelated to each other. I've been chopping and changing as each gets difficult, but i've finally had to force myself to concentrate on one. Actually plotting the bloody thing out as a storyboard, as much as i hate to do it, helped, and now i'm finding it much easier.
But my usual excuse is either "i'm just not feeling this one", or "it's rubbish, there's no plot".
Glad i'm not alone… 🙂
So it's not just me who jumps between various novels, woo!
Yeah, I think I'm at the dreaded planning stage now on my current WIP. 50k in and it's starting to falter. I need to sketch out the plot so far and see if I can figure out where it’s heading.
Like you say, it's probably best to concentrate on just one at a time.
Okay. I'm going to take the tough love approach. You'll thank me for it later. Honest.
Stop procrastinating and get on with it!
Set yourself a few deadlines i.e. write a plot outline by…. or write scene three, chapter five by… If you fail at your self-imposed deadlines, then it's time to make some tough decisions. Time to file it away in the 'before-I-was-a-famous-writer-I-wrote-half-a-novel-called' file, and then start something new.
As being tough isn't really in my nature, I also suggest you promise yourself some treats for when you do start writing again. It usually works for me!
Who doesn't love a bit of tough love? 😀
Right, ok. Here goes:
– Sketch out plot so far
– Add at least two major plot points
– Begin proper character profiles (for MCs at least)
– Add 1000 words
All by midnight tonight…
Feel free to give me a kicking if I don't get all the above done tonight, Ellie!
…and I'll add a word count for my current WIP, so people can generally abuse me when it doesn’t go up regularly.
…. I think you need She-Ra's help! ;-p
With a skirt that short, She-Ra would probably be more of a distraction! 😀