the old ark's a-movering
Sep. 15th, 2003 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyFinally got myself unstuck last night--at ll p.m., which may explain why I slept so badly.
The trouble with writer's block is not that I get it, but that, when I do, I always want it to solve itself, without any work on my part.
That's not how it works, sunshine.
It took me two and a half notebook pages of what I described to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala as wandering in circles wringing my hands before I finally worked my way into the right direction and the right starting point. And it was hard, ugly, boring work. But not pointless, because I finally managed to ask the right question. And once I'd asked the right question, the answer was there waiting for me.
And then I wrote 418 words in Chapter 15.
The trouble with writer's block is not that I get it, but that, when I do, I always want it to solve itself, without any work on my part.
That's not how it works, sunshine.
It took me two and a half notebook pages of what I described to
matociquala as wandering in circles wringing my hands before I finally worked my way into the right direction and the right starting point. And it was hard, ugly, boring work. But not pointless, because I finally managed to ask the right question. And once I'd asked the right question, the answer was there waiting for me.And then I wrote 418 words in Chapter 15.
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Date: 2003-09-15 07:49 am (UTC)Yeah. I've spent a lot of my draft figuring out what needs to be there by writing other things instead.
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 12:56 pm (UTC)Thinking of the Pooh analogy, he had to be pulled out by a long line of Rabbit's Friends and Relations...
Glad to hear the good news! (and it's so often the questions that are important.)