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When writing, you know you are in trouble when...
meg_evonne:
OK, I can pretend this thread is just for fun and for amusing writing breaks and I hope it will be, or I can tell you it's the truth, which it is.
You know you are in trouble when...
Your antagonist has ten times more depth and twenty times more 'want' then your two protagonists combined. ARGHHH!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
You know you are in trouble when you get two-thirds of the way through writing a movie review and then realise which of your characters is writing it and how much you disagree with him. And then spend the rest of the day fretting about whether he's done that with work stuff and you missed it.
Gruud:
The character you're writing about turns and looks back at you like Sonic the Hedgehog, giving you an "okay, now what?" look.
Kali:
...you realize that your big, complicated, twisted plot had a very simple solution and your MC could have fixed the whole thing tens of thousands of words ago. Now you either rewrite, or come up with a non-contrived reason why they didn't just do X at the beginning of this whole drug trip.
Starbeam:
...you get about halfway through a revision and realize that the convoluted and nonsensical introduction to several characters can be greatly simplified. As long as you go back and rip out practically everything you've written and just revised. :-\
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