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the old ark's a-movering
Sep. 15th, 2003 09:10 amFinally 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.
