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All of these painful scenes that drag me down
Seriously, what is with writing lately? My latest fic, which was initially so easy and effortless, has been dragging for the past week, and I just don't get it. Every time I wrote something, I'd have to go back and edit the crap out of it the next day, because it just was not working, and finally, I realised that the fic as a whole was not working - it was dragging, and not going in the direction I wanted it to, and that while it was ... not bad, exactly, nothing of any real importance was happening at all. For 5000 words. (And for that, I totally blame my lack of outline, which left me to wander off in all sorts of directions I hadn't intended. Oops.)
And finally, I realised that if the fic was giving me that much angst, maybe just pushing through it wasn't the best solution, after all. So I deleted it.
And - I mean, that was a lot of work for nothing, but also, it feels so good to be starting over with a blank slate that I don't regret my decision at all. I now have 600 words of shiny new fic, and have plotted, in some detail, the rest of the fic, so I'm fairly confident that huge sucking mess thing won't be happening again.
(This fic will be FUN, DAMMIT, even if I have to force it to be.)
And finally, I realised that if the fic was giving me that much angst, maybe just pushing through it wasn't the best solution, after all. So I deleted it.
And - I mean, that was a lot of work for nothing, but also, it feels so good to be starting over with a blank slate that I don't regret my decision at all. I now have 600 words of shiny new fic, and have plotted, in some detail, the rest of the fic, so I'm fairly confident that huge sucking mess thing won't be happening again.
(This fic will be FUN, DAMMIT, even if I have to force it to be.)