Saturday, May 10, 2008
The Wall of Shame
For the first time in almost two months I have legitimately quit writing for two days. I couldn't bring myself to write anything; my main story is getting so stale. I have no desire to tell it anymore. So I considered writing exercises or rudessions, but those just feel like I'm avoiding the problem. So yeah, flog away.
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No flog for you. I'm just too disappointed.
Uhm me too. Please don't stop! I love your story. You have it. Don't waste it and let wannabe writers take teh fame that is rightly due to you!
Write, Adrienne. Write anything. Do a ten-minute timed writing exercise on oh.. let see... a freeway overpass. That should be good for a bit of wild description. Give yourself a break from the WIP for a day or so, but don't stop writing. It's harder to start again than it is to keep going. (Inertia and all that).
And ... what else was I going to say? Oh yes, I remember now. **FLOG**. You already received your allotment of sympathy from Daeruin and Hamlet.
I have experienced that with longer works. Something that I've done that has helped is to write a related short story. I try to make it as un-epic as possible, just an out-of-the-spotlight look at one of your characters or institution or other characteristic of your story. It isn't an exercise because it is a real story, a legitimate tale to which you are inclined. I would be willing to do a detailed post on Write On if you or anyone else care about some of the times when I've done this.
And not that I belong on this end of whip, but FLOG.
R.
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