Again sorry for the delay in the posting, I really have to get better at this....
Well it probably wasn't that I forget to post on here its just that I really had nothing to say. Other than the fact that my novel is coming only, slowly but still coming along. But, other than that my life (real and fictional) have been quite boring. My imagination isn't what it used to be, seriously I could come up with a story in a matter of seconds, but now I'm struggling to keep up a story. That sucks.
But now I have to admit to myself the one thing that every writer hates, WRITER'S BLOCK. The two words that loom over each writers head as they try to write as much as they can before writer's block takes over. For me it took 68 pages for writer's block to set it. 68 pages! But I had my whole story line written out, why was I plagued with writer's block? I knew everything that was going to happen, why did it all stop? Why did my imagination just stop?
Maybe that's why we get writer's block. We feel that if we write out everything that is going to happen before it happens, than nothing can get in the way. But we know that it does, we know that our characters sometimes need a break. Yet we still push them, push them so we can write more, so we can write longer, so we can write better. We push their boundaries because of deadlines, ours or someone elses, or just to know the out come of what's going on. Writers stay up all night debating possibilities of different endings, it's our own form of insomnia.
However, no matter how hard we try to figure out the ending on our own it will never come out right. It will never be the same if the characters wrote it themselves. If the characters controlled the story then most of our novels would be different. Some of the characters would act differently, dress differently maybe even walk differently. But we try to conform them to our image of that character, and for the time being they act that way. Until they get pissed off at us, thus causing writer's block. What if we just allowed our thoughts to roam free, to write whatever came into our mind, to use stream of consciousness? Would we still have writer's block? Would we still try to make our characters who they want to be and not who we want them to be? Is it just our characters actions that cause writer's block, or is it something else also?
Maggie ♥
I get that all the time! it's the MOST annoying feeling in the world! hey but you're doing better than me. I usually hit it 20 pages into it. I guess if i don't write it as fast as i can read a book, I just get bored.
ReplyDeleteSame, but it has happened so many times that I want to finish on book, I just want to write one full novel. Hopefully before I graduate...
ReplyDeleteHello! Isn't it nice to know that you are not immune to the same problems that almost all writers face? I always did hate to read how certain authors spew forth new books with the ease of breathing! That is just not fair, not to mention not a bit funny! May I suggest something? To keep being "productive", take some of your characters off to a trip to some place you would like to go anyway. Go as a group, learn more about your characters, and allow them to get to know you. The trip doesn't have to have anything with your book at all. Just go some where and take some or all of the characters with you. Tuscany is great! Paris can be fun! The chill and fog of London with all of its history holds mysteries! Or, truly out there, your group can be missionaries in Africa! Anyway, spend more off-book time with your characters! Or, go the opposite way and take a romantic journey with the actual guy at school that you are interested in! A Med cruise visiting Greek isles! But write it down! So we can find out how it turns out! TC Don
ReplyDeleteI will be sure to try that, but I might want to go back in history, maybe see how they act. Or I might just take my crush (not really him, but him as a character) to a faraway place. I will be sure to let you know how my "vacation" goes!
ReplyDeleteMaggie♥