July 17, 2006
11:10 am • Filed under: Uncategorized
Didn’t write a word this weekend. I feel bad about it but I couldn’t muster up one word. Awful! Really need to get on it this week.
Instead, I cleaned out my kids’ clothes, cleaned out my sock drawer (I’m not kidding, I had socks in there that were 10+ years old - unreal!), did major laundry. You know, the fun stuff in life.
I’m going to admit it - I feel a bit uninspired. I’ve done lots of research for my next book, I’ve worked on an outline (though I really need to work on a timeline - that’s next), but I can’t figure out how to start it. Ugh! I think I’m putting too much pressure on myself and therefore am unable to come up with anything. I need to just let the fingers fly on the keyboard and see what happens.
Does anybody else do this? Have a decent plot and come up with all kinds of scenes/ideas for later on in the book, but can’t get the damn thing out the gate? Frustrating isn’t it?
You know who this is says:
I do that. Easier said than done, but don’t pressure yourself! Good luck!
Julie S says:
Omigod, you just described my weekend, except replace “10+ year old socks” with “3+month old weeds”. I was feeling SO wordless, I didn’t even visit blogs because I truly had nothing to say. I was on such a roll last week that I just crashed and burned!
So yeah, frustrating.
Amanda Brice says:
Yup…got not writing done this weekend at all. I meant to. It just didn’t happen.
But I did do a bunch of planning…does that count?!?!?
Shelli Stevens says:
Usually getting out of the gate isn’t the problem. I’ll write a page or two, THEN I’ll take a month before I really go full throttle.
But you’ve been writing a lot. You probably just need a break! And if this is the book you told me about, then it’s gonna rock!
You know who this is says:
Karen I just now read the “back cover” of your book. Is it going to be in stores or online??? It sounds like a great book! Can’t wait to read it!
JENNA says:
I like that - we’re feeling wordless. It is definitely going around. What ARE we going to do about it?
Stacy Dawn says:
Oh yeah, more times than I would like the most recently being, uh, right now. I have the whole short story in my head but for some reason I can’t write it. I get in front of the computer and end up goofing off on the internet instead. I have so much that needs to be out in the next month and have I written one word…nope, not since Thursday.
Sarah L. Castleberry says:
Does it have to be at the BEGINNING? I’m having trouble writing the middle - when I have an outline and scenes planned and everything.
Let’s just all collectively agree it’s the summer that’s got us down! (Or busy!!)
Kimberly says:
I’m with Shelli. Two or three pages and then I drag ass for awhile. I usually start out with only a general idea, no plot at all…of course, maybe that is my problem.
April says:
Sometimes it’s just time for a break. Take it and it’ll make a world of difference!
Nicole Reising says:
I’m so sorry to hear your troubles! Sometimes though doing things like you did this weekend can be the key to refilling the pot of ideas and energizing the fingers! I hope it is for you! Good luck!
Cole
Cora Zane says:
Ug, I do that too. I skip around through my mss and then go back and fill in the holes.
LOL about the socks. I’ve got the same thing going on with mine. I came across a pair of lime green 80s slouch socks just last week. Oi.
Tempest Knight says:
Starting a book is usually the hardest thing. I need a good hook. So instead I write whatever other scenes come into my head. As I write, sometimes that first chapter hits me and I go “Aha!”
Stephanie Bose says:
Very frustrating. I’ve been procrastinating for weeks. But I have just now dived into the stream again and am writing fluidly. Good luck with getting back into the groove!
M.E Ellis says:
I didn’t write either, until Monday.
I think the pressure of having deadlines saps my inspiration and dry, bland stuff comes out.
I prefer to write because I want to!
:O)