AHHHHHH!!!

I am so there..........one day in and my characters are coming out of the woodwork; my initial plan is lying rumpled on the floor. Am I writing this? Or is it some entity USING ME to write itself? I agree: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!

dale-harriet

Yeah. I'm realizing that the time I THOUGHT I had was non-existant.

Stage 1: Freakout

Stage 2: ...? I'll let you know when I arrive.

Stage --insert big, scary number here--: Finally arrive at 50k

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"I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears."

I'm right there with you. Although last year I didn't discover going out and writing until late in the second weekend. So I know that a slow start is no problem, just keep to it. The key is just to sit down and write a little every day. Some days you'll be able to crank out more. For me, last year I marathoned on the weekends and that got me ahead of the game so that during the week I could slack up a little bit.

Keep the good work coming. The words are in there. I just know it. Sometimes all it takes is a good screaming match between characters to get the ball rolling.

-Jamwes

You can't edit a blank page.

"A gat in the hand is worth the world by it's tail." -Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon

My narrator decided, this morning, to go off on an exposition about how to inconspicuously maximize food consumption from a buffet a a party. He keeps hijacking my story to talk about stuff he likes. But, hey, words. Although now I'm in the mood for shrimp.

I feel bad for my protagonist. Every time it looks like he's going to have a good time, the story decides to lock him in another room or make him have terrible nightmares. It's not my fault, I'm just writing what happens! It's not like I have any real control over it.

Oh well. I suppose that as the main character of a dystopian novel he's just going to have to get used to bad things happening to him for no reason whatsoever.

Well. They do say that in order to be an author you need to be a sadist. Have fun with it.

-Jamwes

You can't edit a blank page.

"A gat in the hand is worth the world by it's tail." -Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon

Ha. Yeah. Isn't it amazing what comes out when you start wrting with wild abandon?

Sentence one came out roughly like I expected it to. The entire rest of the "beginning", thus far? Pfft. No dice. I don't even know WHERE this mess came from. I now have a pre-beginning beginning, and am having a devil of a time getting from the point A I ended up with to the point A I had in mind.

Because they're connected, y'know. Just...in a slightly more sideways fashion than I'd realized before.

*bangs head repeatedly against keyboard*

I need ONE good day to crank out 10k words, and I'll feel better. Really.

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"I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears."

My narrator has decided he doesn't like serious things, and has decided that dark humor is more his thing. I'm surprised that I lost control of him this quickly. Usually it takes a good 3000 extra words, at the very least, to get to this point. I'm not sure if it's a good sign or not...

*Sniff* They grow up so fast.

Last week I had decided to write a mystery novel; I thought I had it all planned out. But the night of day two, I realized I hated my story, and I'd be spending way too much time worrying about the intricate details (what kind of poison would bring on a heart attack after being absorbed through the vaginal membranes hours after first contact--whew!).

So I scrapped it all and just started writing for an hour last night. Now I'm hella behind, but at least I have a story and characters I love and no idea where it'll go (which I think is more fun and MUCH easier).