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He just wanted to be stuck for awhile.
Jan. 21st, 2014 09:38 pmStuck: Day 20
Chapter: 1-6
Total 10,002
This thing is still coming together. I'm trying a lot of different story construction methods this time. Writing against my natural routine. I'm usually a very linear writer. I start at "Once Upon" and end when I hit "The End." Sometimes that causes slogging as I hit a wall, and the fun stuff stays stuck on the other side waiting to get done but blocked by my linear impasse. This time I'm writing whatever flows first, so all of the chapters are happening at once. I knew the last two chapters so I wrote them first. Then I wrote the second halves of chapters 1-4. Today I worked on the first half of chapter 4. It seems to keep the words coming, but I'm left with having to stitch continuity throughout and feeling like things are very disjointed.
I thought I knew the story pretty well, and parts of it I do, but it's taken me weeks to find a through line. The actions I've had down for months, the physicality of things, but the arc and the point of things and the motivations and the beats have proven to be more elusive. So now I have random bits in each chapter. Chapter 2 is only 400ish, Chapter 6 is pushing 3.5K. As I slowly fill in the blanks this thing is fattening up. Though I'm really looking forward to a point where I can dig in and start slicing and stitching and make a story out of it. I have a feeling I'm going to have to write over a lot of it. But hell, 10K of any draft is a nice thing :-) Even a zero draft. The new ChromeBook is helping. I've been dragging it everywhere and typing like a fiend. It's like my digital notebook. Just what I needed.
Total 10,002
This thing is still coming together. I'm trying a lot of different story construction methods this time. Writing against my natural routine. I'm usually a very linear writer. I start at "Once Upon" and end when I hit "The End." Sometimes that causes slogging as I hit a wall, and the fun stuff stays stuck on the other side waiting to get done but blocked by my linear impasse. This time I'm writing whatever flows first, so all of the chapters are happening at once. I knew the last two chapters so I wrote them first. Then I wrote the second halves of chapters 1-4. Today I worked on the first half of chapter 4. It seems to keep the words coming, but I'm left with having to stitch continuity throughout and feeling like things are very disjointed.
I thought I knew the story pretty well, and parts of it I do, but it's taken me weeks to find a through line. The actions I've had down for months, the physicality of things, but the arc and the point of things and the motivations and the beats have proven to be more elusive. So now I have random bits in each chapter. Chapter 2 is only 400ish, Chapter 6 is pushing 3.5K. As I slowly fill in the blanks this thing is fattening up. Though I'm really looking forward to a point where I can dig in and start slicing and stitching and make a story out of it. I have a feeling I'm going to have to write over a lot of it. But hell, 10K of any draft is a nice thing :-) Even a zero draft. The new ChromeBook is helping. I've been dragging it everywhere and typing like a fiend. It's like my digital notebook. Just what I needed.
