I wrote 245 words this morning in the space of 20 minutes.
I surfed the web a bit, wrapped myself in a blanket and got comfortable before remembering my notes across the room. In my one hour writing session I managed just short of 250 words.
Yet, I did write that many.
I am attributing this success, meager though it is, to my outline. Creating it allowed me to find the story. Looking at any one of it lines reminds me of how the story came to that point, what is happening in that moment of the story and what happens immediately after it.
I have been struggling to write again these past few days. I took a break, switched projects to my gothic tale, and now I have to get into that mindset. Yet, having an outline is helpful. With it, the difficulty is not coming up with ideas of what happens next or what the endgame is. Rather, the difficulty is simply to begin.
Tomorrow will be hard as well. Probably the rest of the week. But I have an outline. That cuts the difficulty of writing in half for me as I really hate the details of the story. The names, the plot points, etc. If I don't plan them out ahead of time, I can sit for an hour debating what name to give a character, worrying over the name's fit in the culture of my story world.
What trips you up when you are writing? How do you solve the problem or make it easier for yourself?
I surfed the web a bit, wrapped myself in a blanket and got comfortable before remembering my notes across the room. In my one hour writing session I managed just short of 250 words.
Yet, I did write that many.
I am attributing this success, meager though it is, to my outline. Creating it allowed me to find the story. Looking at any one of it lines reminds me of how the story came to that point, what is happening in that moment of the story and what happens immediately after it.
I have been struggling to write again these past few days. I took a break, switched projects to my gothic tale, and now I have to get into that mindset. Yet, having an outline is helpful. With it, the difficulty is not coming up with ideas of what happens next or what the endgame is. Rather, the difficulty is simply to begin.
Tomorrow will be hard as well. Probably the rest of the week. But I have an outline. That cuts the difficulty of writing in half for me as I really hate the details of the story. The names, the plot points, etc. If I don't plan them out ahead of time, I can sit for an hour debating what name to give a character, worrying over the name's fit in the culture of my story world.
What trips you up when you are writing? How do you solve the problem or make it easier for yourself?