The Trough of DOOM™
I’m hitting that dreaded point again…
The trough of doom…no that doesn’t sound right.
The depression of depression?
The low of lowness?
Ok, sod it I’m sticking with The Trough of DOOM™
You know how it is being a writer – you’re up one minute then down the next. Too busy to write, not busy enough to write, you’re too bored with your idea then you talk about it so much you don’t actually write about it, you’re hot then you’re cold, you’re yes then you’re no, you’re in then…hang on…that’s not right either!!
That kind of sums up the past fortnight for me, I start to write something and then it tapers off and ends up sounding…not…good.
I should be speeding through the last 20k of my first draft, not crawling along a few inches every other day. This is the final scene! Or at least the build up to it…this is the part of the Matrix where Neo loads up the gun racks to go take on a building full of agents. The action has driven onto the on-ramp and should be accelerating getting up to speed before it hits the highway! The trouble is I feel a bit more like a rusty off-coloured red Vauxhall Corsa struggling to get into second gear and make it up the ramp…wait a minute, what? I need a new car and then I’ll be able to write?
Something like that…the analogy part of my brain has up and fecked off with the coherent part and the bit that makes me walk straight.
At least I can be glad of one thing – the trough won’t last. Eventually I’ll be on the up, just like my story needs to be, and I’ll be able to zoom through the words like an Olympic champ (well, not a British Olympic champ).
Soon The Trough of DOOM™ will turn into The Vertex of Victory!™
It's slow progress on the ol visual front too, keep plopping on those keys mr!
Yay Vertex of victory!
Lee
Tossing It Out
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Hehe. I need some of that Vertex of Victory!
It's funny how we get these off days and then at other times we can't be stopped. Like Wednesday, when I wrote 2000 words in two hours and got two-thirds of the way through a 'tasty' little story called Last Ranch on the West.
What an awesome post. It really made me smile and kick my butt into action.
Great. Now I have Katie Perry song stuck in my head.
Welcome to the trough of doom. I've been here for weeks. Here, have a sandwich.
You know what’s a worse song to get stuck in your head?
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round, alllll day long.
Or in my case the Thomas the Tank Engine theme song, I seem to get it stuck in my head at least once a week. Not THAT annoying…but quite embarrassing when I start whistling it at work :S
Know how you feel. Sometimes its like you're crawling through broken glass to the end. The secret is to leave it for an hour or so if it ain working and do something else. My best writing comes when I'm not writing.