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Aug. 5th, 2005 02:43![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keilissAbout writing.
I know what I want to explore in the chapter I'm trying to write. I know which characters I want to write about. I know how to make the progression from here to later chapters of the fic. I just seem to be having a terrible problem bringing the words to life.
Everything I write looks flat, anonymous and colourless, and has for the last week and a half. I can't hear the characters talk, I can't see their logic....it all just feels like the written equivalent of elevator music. So I'm depressed. And because I'm depressed, I can't see my characters clearly enough to write them. And so I'm depressed. And on and on the loop flows, endlessly...
The worst is that I know this is probably normal, that it will lift. I look at the previous eleven chapters in this fic and remind myself that, yes, I wrote that, and there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to do it again, I just need to be able to relax a bit and create more writing time for myself. And it doesn't help a damn bit!
Okay - I won't say I feel better, but it's nice to whinge a bit. Very therapeutic *grins*
*Goes back to staring at ugly, flat, colourless words. Considers drinking more Jack Daniels instead*
I know what I want to explore in the chapter I'm trying to write. I know which characters I want to write about. I know how to make the progression from here to later chapters of the fic. I just seem to be having a terrible problem bringing the words to life.
Everything I write looks flat, anonymous and colourless, and has for the last week and a half. I can't hear the characters talk, I can't see their logic....it all just feels like the written equivalent of elevator music. So I'm depressed. And because I'm depressed, I can't see my characters clearly enough to write them. And so I'm depressed. And on and on the loop flows, endlessly...
The worst is that I know this is probably normal, that it will lift. I look at the previous eleven chapters in this fic and remind myself that, yes, I wrote that, and there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to do it again, I just need to be able to relax a bit and create more writing time for myself. And it doesn't help a damn bit!
Okay - I won't say I feel better, but it's nice to whinge a bit. Very therapeutic *grins*
*Goes back to staring at ugly, flat, colourless words. Considers drinking more Jack Daniels instead*
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Date: 2005-08-05 17:22 (UTC)