October 28, 2011
day 5
Failed badly at writing 10 pages. Wrote 1! instead. Terrible. Atrocious. Pathetic. At least I'm being honest about it.
pages: 1
total pages: 17
I'm now coming up against the problem of not having made a rock solid structural plan. A very important character has just arrived, and her arrival creates an opportunity for the main character to change his situation. But I'm dealing with decision paralysis: deciding what that opportunity is and what the main character decides to do with it will end up informing the entire meaning of the story. I'm really inclined to spend the time I have tomorrow and Sunday thinking this through more and laying out these two characters' entire arcs...
2 Comments:
nawhead posted on October 29, 2011 at 04:48 AM
you should just write something very derivative. just copy other better things. and if it's bad, so what? then write it again better. and if it's still bad, so what? then write it again better. this is what the Bronte sisters did.
http://thetalentcode.com/2009/03/30/bronte-sisters/
KRANTZ posted on October 29, 2011 at 14:36 PM
yah, good advice. we're all subconsciously copying from somewhere... i liken my process to learning a new language -- first attempts to communicate are going to be pretty brutal but practice makes perfect.
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