writing stuff
Dec. 9th, 2020 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffI'm working on a story and have got past the point where it just flows out without me thinking about it very much. There is more flowy stuff in my head, but I have to connect what I've written to what I'm going to write, and have it all make sense.
This is where I've always given up on stories. The hard part, the thinky part, the part where you have to craft what is coming out of your head. My head. Anyway.
Part of why I have a hard time at this point in the story-making is that I begin with having only a vague idea of where the story is going. I write a bit. I sleep and think a bit. I write some more. I find the meaning of the stuff I wrote first and how it hooks up with the stuff I'm yet to write, and it's more than just a little amazing to me how it all works in the back of my brain without the front of my brain getting much involved. For the most part, it's effortless in starts and stops. The only real effort is making myself sit down and write a sentence or two when my fingers are not sure of what it is that's going on.
It's kindof like watching bits of a movie-- I see this scene and that scene, but not what might connect them. I recognize the characters, I hear them, smell where they're at and what they're surrounded by. But I don't really know why the heck they're there. So my thinking brain has to do that, look at the scenes and figure out the story that links them.
Last night I wrote maybe 250 words and tonight 62 words. Now I have to think a little, work out the logistics of where this bit, this scene, links up with the dam of flowy thought that I can see-see-see in my head. That part really wants to get out, but it won't help me to just go ahead and write that part without writing the connecting part. Because the connecting part is essential framework to the next part, the flowy part. If I write the flowy part without the connecting part, the flowy part will just ... wilt. It won't be good.
Off to bed! I'm going to do a little gift shopping in the morning.
This is where I've always given up on stories. The hard part, the thinky part, the part where you have to craft what is coming out of your head. My head. Anyway.
Part of why I have a hard time at this point in the story-making is that I begin with having only a vague idea of where the story is going. I write a bit. I sleep and think a bit. I write some more. I find the meaning of the stuff I wrote first and how it hooks up with the stuff I'm yet to write, and it's more than just a little amazing to me how it all works in the back of my brain without the front of my brain getting much involved. For the most part, it's effortless in starts and stops. The only real effort is making myself sit down and write a sentence or two when my fingers are not sure of what it is that's going on.
It's kindof like watching bits of a movie-- I see this scene and that scene, but not what might connect them. I recognize the characters, I hear them, smell where they're at and what they're surrounded by. But I don't really know why the heck they're there. So my thinking brain has to do that, look at the scenes and figure out the story that links them.
Last night I wrote maybe 250 words and tonight 62 words. Now I have to think a little, work out the logistics of where this bit, this scene, links up with the dam of flowy thought that I can see-see-see in my head. That part really wants to get out, but it won't help me to just go ahead and write that part without writing the connecting part. Because the connecting part is essential framework to the next part, the flowy part. If I write the flowy part without the connecting part, the flowy part will just ... wilt. It won't be good.
Off to bed! I'm going to do a little gift shopping in the morning.
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Date: 2020-12-12 05:33 pm (UTC)