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What I'm doing today
Dec. 23rd, 2006 12:07 amMy current problem: I have 700 words of- if I say so myself- rather nice writing, with a great deal more in the back of my mind waiting to be typed out, but I have no idea what story it's all part of.
Which sounds bizarre, I know: this has never happened to me before. I've got all this description and action and even some dialogue, but I need some point for the story to be about, something for the characters to discuss, some central tangle of their relationship or backstory or meaning or whatever for everything to turn on, and that's what I can't come up with.
It's not unusual for me to start a story with little bits and pieces; various images usually, or a line of dialogue, and to write these single sentences down as soon as I get them, so I don't forget how they go. It's part of why I always carry a notebook on me, so that I can jot down the "Everything in GenSouKai is more real than in reality" that, really, is already the whole story for me, just waiting for the rest of it to be nailed down in words. Later I'll fit these bits into their appropriate paragraphs, once I've written all of that slower stuff. But I've never had a setting and a plot and all the rest without a purpose for it; I'm used to the point coming first, and then the ideas of how to tell it.
This is the strangest sort of writer's block I've ever had.
Which sounds bizarre, I know: this has never happened to me before. I've got all this description and action and even some dialogue, but I need some point for the story to be about, something for the characters to discuss, some central tangle of their relationship or backstory or meaning or whatever for everything to turn on, and that's what I can't come up with.
It's not unusual for me to start a story with little bits and pieces; various images usually, or a line of dialogue, and to write these single sentences down as soon as I get them, so I don't forget how they go. It's part of why I always carry a notebook on me, so that I can jot down the "Everything in GenSouKai is more real than in reality" that, really, is already the whole story for me, just waiting for the rest of it to be nailed down in words. Later I'll fit these bits into their appropriate paragraphs, once I've written all of that slower stuff. But I've never had a setting and a plot and all the rest without a purpose for it; I'm used to the point coming first, and then the ideas of how to tell it.
This is the strangest sort of writer's block I've ever had.
