I think I finally figured out my writer's block problems. I'm trying to write my novels linearly. Why? Why am I doing this to myself? Why has it not occurred to me once before now that this could be why I'm so stuck? I've never been a linear story-teller. I've always written first the scenes that most capture my imagination and then worry about connecting them later. Sometimes I even write backwards, beginning with the ending and working my way back from there. I've completed many a well-received novel-length Buffy fic this way. This is also how I finished my first (permanently consigned to the bottom drawer) novel. So why am I making writing such hell for myself by trying to write both of my current novels in linear order?
Well, I'm knocking that nonsense off right now. Jump ahead in Hero Factor to a scene I've been turning over in my brain for two years now, and voila, I can write again. It was as simple as that. And it's taken me about a year of feeling stuck and uninspired to figure that out.
This is why I'm a dumbass.
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