I think I have writer's block. I don't know for sure though, cause whenever I've claimed to have writer's block in the past, it's been more like "writer who doesn't want to write" block. In a way you can equate it to a new ache and pain. You think you might know what it could be, but you're not totally sure.
I first conceived the idea for this story one Saturday morning while I was taking a shower. The thoughts just came pouring into my head so fast that I just had to get it all down before I forgot the important details. I wrote for 4 solid hours before going to my cousin's for dinner that day. I think I managed to get down almost 10 pages as well as an outline for the next several chapters. That was a month and a half ago. I now have 136 pages and 13 chapters. I have had a neat system going on when it came to this story. Most of my ideas/scenes/material seemed to come to me on the weekends. I wasn't sure if it was the relaxed state of my mind or the inordinate amount of tea I usually drink on Saturdays and Sundays. But those days were my "thought" days. I usually took the time to jot down the high-level details, but that was it for weekend work. I preferred to let them stew for a bit in my mind before staying up until ungodly hours during the work week to finally type it out in semi-coherent sentences. That was followed by a lunchtime or two to proofread and fix the semi-coherentness and voila - another chapter was done. This trend continued for several weeks - come up with stuff on the weekends...type it out at night during the week.
This past weekend, though was a bit different. I got nada out of my brain this weekend. Not a thing. I just wish it would have told me it was planning to take a vacation. It's not like we had an overly busy weekend either. I even had a few hours to myself yesterday afternoon while J and B were out putting up our new mailbox - YAY! So now I'm hoping I haven't lost my creative streak altogether. Or maybe I'm thinking/stressing too much about it. I'm worried that I may have devoted too much time setting up the back story and trying to develop the characters that I won't have any energy left for the final "punch" at the end. Not to mention I don't even know what that final punch is going to be right now. This little work of art doesn't even have a title yet and for some reason, that's bothering me too.
Maybe I should follow my brain and just take a vacation...
Monday, March 16, 2009
I'm drawing a blank
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Glad to hear you got your mailbox back up... perhaps you will be motivated to write in that time you used to spend with the oh-so-friendly guy at the post office.
I think you found your reason for your block-- you're not sure exactly where the story is going. I say you put it aside for a bit until everything comes together in your head (take more showers!)
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