(ETA: Apparently writing doesn't extend to remembering a subject line)

[lizvogel]

I hesitate to say anything for fear of jinxing it, but this time the lull in posting is due to the writing going better. Not swiftly and well (is "swell" a contraction of that?), but better.

I correctly determined that the "stuck" was the kind of stuck that needs to percolate for a bit, rather than the kind that needs to be pushed through. And the percolating yielded an insight into a character's motivation. It's not much of a change: the same events will still happen, and at most, a couple of lines will get said by a different person, but suddenly now it's writable.

Brains, I swear.

Comments

[infiniteviking]

Wheee, writing~! I have a lot of those sorts of stuck-ness; my characters really need to be more forthcoming if they want to be written. Good that you're able to identify the kind of stuck and not stress about it.

[lizvogel]

Well, I had a day or two of "Aaaaah! Why can't I make the words go? Aaaaaah!!!!" before I considered that maybe I needed to step back for a bit, so don't credit me with more virtue than I deserve. ;-) But wheee, indeed.

I sometimes think the strongest argument for my back-brain making it all up as it goes along, as opposed to having deep-laid plans that it only lets me in on bit by bit, is those periods of flailing/percolating. Surely if it knew what would happen all along, it would tell me sooner? Unless my back-brain really is that sadistic, which I'm not ruling out.