Welcome to all our new adventurers, and hello to all the long-suffering campers already here!
I regret although I am writing, my motivation is really suffering. I think I manged 300 words today, maybe the same every day, all week. That’s bad considering that the usual amount is 1,000 and I am capable of doing 7,000 in a day.
That number feels like a mountain at the minute.
I’m still having ideas, but I’m currently re-working Jovian Crisis, and it’s a slog. Some writers have trouble with a blank page, but I don’t really suffer from that, but what I do suffer from is Done-and-Dusted’itis.
Let me explain.
When I finish a project, even to first draft, that, in my mind is it – it’s finished, it’s over. I know I have a second draft to do of it, but I hate it. I absolutely hate going back in to sort it all out, because I know it’s going to be a slog. I’m one of those writers people refer to as a ‘Pantser’, aka I do it by the seat of my (trousers if you’re a Brit like oneself) pants. (Hmm, perhaps I could be a ‘Trouserer’, although that sounds somewhat dodgy….but I digress). A huge re-write is literally the effect of writing in this fashion, I accept it, but the other problem I have is that the style of Jovian Crisis is old.
By that, I mean it’s old to me. If you’ve ever handled computer code from 1994, or had to repair something made with old materials, stitched, riveted or glued together the way they used to in 1910, you’ll know what this feels like.
I think another problem I’m facing is the situation a lot of people are stuck with too: nothing is moving. I can’t complain too much, as a lot of people have it a lot worse than I do, I will never say they don’t, but the impasse of it all is now getting…frustrating.
Just have to keep plodding – 300 words at a time!
Well, that’s all he wrote – hope you’re having a safe and productive time of it and making headway with your plans, hopes and dreams.
And, as always, have a great day Adventurers! 🙂
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