That Ol' Writerly Brain
Dec. 7th, 2017 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_qI started to work on the longest NaNo fic, 'A Marriage of Rogues' that ended up in the 10K range. Mostly because that story I liked the best, and it already has a start and a finish (well, sort of).
I have the romace beat sheet, so I started by digging up the good bits from that 10K clump of words. Then I chucked the bits in the beat sheet, then added stuff to bridge the gaps. Tadah! A skeleton of a story, with start, midpoint and end, and not much blank spots in between.
Except now my writerly brain is like "So, that story is done! Let's move on!" and I'm like "No, we still need to rewrite the story" and writerly brain was like "No, done now!" and I was "Except it's not finished yet?" and writerly brain was "Like you said, finished!"
Uuuh, writerly brain! Stop it!
I'm not good at finishing things, that much is clear. But I really want to post something! I have only posted one story this year. One story! >.< That's sad, there was a time when I posted one story in like, a month? So, I want to post more! I don't know how to achieve that though.
I have the romace beat sheet, so I started by digging up the good bits from that 10K clump of words. Then I chucked the bits in the beat sheet, then added stuff to bridge the gaps. Tadah! A skeleton of a story, with start, midpoint and end, and not much blank spots in between.
Except now my writerly brain is like "So, that story is done! Let's move on!" and I'm like "No, we still need to rewrite the story" and writerly brain was like "No, done now!" and I was "Except it's not finished yet?" and writerly brain was "Like you said, finished!"
Uuuh, writerly brain! Stop it!
I'm not good at finishing things, that much is clear. But I really want to post something! I have only posted one story this year. One story! >.< That's sad, there was a time when I posted one story in like, a month? So, I want to post more! I don't know how to achieve that though.