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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
Enjorous:
My first few projects I didn't have that problem. I didn't have any problem really until I was over 80% done.
Now those blocks seem to be happening earlier and earlier. Ah well, there's always the second draft.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Enjorous on October 11, 2010, 07:19:28 PM ---Okay, so the really nasty and very much hated 10,000 word slump has hit me yet again. I don't know what it is but the first 10k come fairly quickly and then I suppose the newness of the project wears off and I'm nowhere near a climax or resolution. I feel between now and then is like the biggest uphill battle.
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Profit is right. Hang in there, but listen to whatever is speaking to you. Remember the first draft is just the first of many, many, and yet many more. You really have to love this thing like a spouse. Okay, bad analogy, but you probably get my drift. That's why I will never put time into a project unless I've got a killer premise, a killer outline, a killer cast of characters first. I used to and I have plenty of projects that died on the vine. I've plenty that I crammed through to the end on the first draft, but know that I'll never touch it again.
Or, maybe you just need to do what Jim does...take the whip to your characters. The pleasure of torturing them might help get over the hump?
Enjorous:
Yeah I'd love to torture them, but sadly it isn't time yet :(
And I can't outline, when I do I'm glued to it, and can't break it.
prophet224:
That's a tough spot to be in - hamstrung by an outline and stuck for motivation/fire.
If it helps, I outline on the fly. As I write those scenes that are in my head, if I think at all about order or get ideas for how to lay things out, I enter them into a basic outline. It isn't my limit, but my guide. I use that outline to know what to write about next. It is sort of just notes on the scenes I want to work on, and it becomes a very basic outline. Helps me to not get stuck. :D
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
was away last weekend, have had lousy sleep for a while, so nothing but note-shuffling done this past fortnight. Shall be trying to get something written again today.
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