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THAT part of the book
meg_evonne:
Here is to suck days. And holy crap neurovore. 22000 posts? Lol
kyoryu:
--- Quote from: neurovore on June 12, 2010, 05:42:01 PM ---I don't know that it's that much of a "worked long enough" thing; I am having a bit of a "the beginning of this, which I have written, sucks, and the ending, which I am trying to figure out, sucks, and I do not think the middle does but only because I've not thought about it much yet" moment on the newest project.
It is really irritating when various priorities need an atypical lot of your attention and you have to leave a new project aside short-term and the new project keeps popping up new ideas and waving at you and jumping up and down saying "look at me". I could be writing it, but only if I took it out of sleep time and I am underslept as is.
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I hear ya. Any large project I've ever worked on, while I was working on it, I thought sucked.
I find the best way to deal with the priority trap is to make an effort to do at least *something* on the project every day, even if it's only 5 minutes.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Kali on June 12, 2010, 06:37:10 PM ---I usually write from the hip, because past experience has taught me that plotting destroys any urge to tell the story. Like talking about the story with someone. The minute I've told the story, in however abbreviated a form, the minute I know what the beginning-to-end is and put it down in any form whatsoever, I'm done. I'm satisfied that the tale's told.
However, this story has me approaching things from a less... "I really wanna tell this cool story" perspective and more from a "how do I write a saleable novel" perspective. Which has led to plotting things out, but it's been almost no fun to write after a certain point. Which is probably the other reason I've stopped writing it. It's no fun anymore.
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I get this kinda thing a lot. I stopped writing my story for a while because I wrote out a bit of an outline/story arc thing. I got through that by changing my thinking from I already know what's going to happen to thinking that even though I know, I don't know how it all happens, like with the little details, and I have a big tendency to stray and add/subtract stuff as I go.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on June 12, 2010, 06:42:11 PM ---Here is to suck days. And holy crap neurovore. 22000 posts? Lol
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I type faster than I talk. it adds up.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: kyoryu on June 12, 2010, 06:43:14 PM ---I find the best way to deal with the priority trap is to make an effort to do at least *something* on the project every day, even if it's only 5 minutes.
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I really can't do this. It almost always takes me longer than that just to get into a frame of mind where I can write; nine weeks out of ten I get a few solid hours in Friday night, this is just the third weekend in a row I have had visitors. However, Jean-Baptiste and Canada Day are coming in the next couple of weeks, so i effectively get two extra Friday nights to make up for it.
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