What Am I Missing? #NaNoWriMo #NaBloPoMo #TMOTR
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Three? First... 10... mine? Hmph? Oh, right. I'm supposed to be
writing a post right now. The thing is I'm sort of gone in the head.
It's late as I write this. It's late on Thanksgiving Day though you
won't read this until Friday or a year from now (hello, future fans!
Do you know the riddle?). I am almost done with TMOTR 92,000 words
and suddenly I've hit a snag.
That horrid and unsettling feeling that all writers get at some
point, many times on one project, even multiple times during the day,
I now have. That's right, fellow writers, I have reached a point of
writer's block. Don't worry, it's mild. I still have a few things I
know how I want to write, but I have the sneaking suspicion I'm
missing something... but what?
For starters, I rarely get writer's block anymore. I remember back in
high school I used to get it all the time, even abandoning projects
because it was too hard to think of the next thing to unfold. It is
within those times that I think the truly committed (or crazy or
both) buckle down and tell their imaginations how it's going to be,
not necessarily reinvent their writing style but their process. It
wasn't until my late years in high school did I start writing nearly
all stories nonlinear-ly. Don't get me wrong, most of them unfold in
a linear progression, but as I've said before, I write what I can
write when I can write it. Then the multiple stories thing came in
during college. Sometimes I would work on up to eight projects at a
time. I really hope that doesn't sound like bragging, I'm just saying
what works for me. Rarely have I ever broken from this accept for in
one recent case while finishing my epic serial novel Unrequited due
out sometime next year.
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To be clear, I haven't had writer's block on a novel or screenplay
literally in three years. Now? Something is missing I'm sure of it,
but I can't figure out what? For the month I pushed aside my usual
routine, working only on the novel and the blog to try completing the
#NaNoWriMo and #NaBloPoMo challenges. So far, it's slowed my novel
progress but I still think I'll finish, but I can't shake that
feeling. TMOTR is a mystery. I don't often write straight mysteries.
I have one coming out soon entitled The Knowledge Of Fear, but that's
not for a few months. So, since I am stuck for the first time in a
while, I turn the floor over to you subscribers and casual readers.
Leave a comment below or send me a tweet on Twitter and tell me what
you think makes a great mystery. Or tell me what you think the basic
structure of a mystery even is. Sometimes, I wonder if I'm even
writing a mystery at all. I don't know.
Anyway, hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and if you are one of
those people who happened to venture beyond your front door into the
shopping culture of America for Black Friday deals, you can also
leave a comment about what you got or if you really found any deal
actually worth the effort. Tomorrow, expect my gardening post
finally. I'll be writing that right after this one.
If
you’re looking for a scare,
check #AFuriousWind, #DARKER, #BrandNewHome or
#ThePowerOfTen.
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Until next time, "gobble, baby.
Gobble, baby. Gobble, baby, gobble!"
P.S. If you get that dance song reference make yourself forget it so
that brain power can be focused into something else like learning a
new language or figuring out how to get every last squeeze of meet
out of those sausage roll packages. Every single time there's a
little bit of meat still left over after I squeeze and squeeze. Eh!
I'll think of a better sign-off next time.
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