Current mood:

busy

Trying a little harder

I went out for my first walk of the spring. Gah. Need to do that more often now that the white stuff is gone. I was waiting for the 60's, because cold and I do not get along. It's actually up to 70 today -- just leapt up there. Nice for the walk, too.   And I took the camera, of course, even though all I got pictures of were a few robins and some dead, brown plants.

Soon it will be green again. That will be nice.

I already have the short story class posted and the DAZ work done. I've done the write ups for the new pages, and my 500 words on Draw the Line. Interesting weave of problems there. And about 40k already. I'm happy.

Kat Among the Pigeons is giving me grief here and there. I can feel where the connections between the written word and what I want it to do are not being fully realized. I've been reworking two scenes several times now... to the point where I start wondering if I couldn't just cut them instead and save myself a lot of grief. (grin)

But... I learn something when I have to work with a scene like this. I could, instead, write something easy and go on, and forget it. I want it as close to write as I can get it, though. When I can see problems, I'm going to keep at them, and I'm not letting this go until I think it's ready.

There will always be occasional scenes that are going to be a problem -- at least there are if you are pushing yourself as a writer. If the story is too easy to write, it probably means you are taking the easy way, and eventually that means boring. Boring for you as the writer and boring for any potential reader, too. Not every scene or story has to be a problem, though. Some stories don't require more and they are perfectly fine. Don't create problems just to show how hard you are working. Occasionally, though, you should push harder.

It's easy for me to write 3k words a day. I do it all the time, in fact. Writing words is the easy part for me. Finding stories to tell is not difficult, either. I have to stop thinking up ideas, in fact. I don't have time to write everything I want to.

But telling those stories well is more than just writing the words.  It's more than sitting at a computer for X number of hours and typing X number of words, strung together to make something coherent, and calling it good enough.

Writing is easier for some than it is for others, but every author has some spot where they have trouble. If they don't... well, they're not trying very hard, and after awhile it shows. Eventually, it shows.