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Oct. 24th, 2012 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semperfionaDriving home yesterday, I started thinking about writing, and wondering why I haven’t seemed to be able to do it anymore.
The Harry/Draco story has acquired about 300 words of a much-earlier scene, about another 150 that immediately precede the bit I posted, and quite a few notes on stuff that goes in between, even the faint glimmerings of a plot other than the romance...but one of the scenes that I know goes there is a blazing row, I’ve even heard the dialog in my imagination though I don’t remember it at the moment, and I can’t quite convince myself to actually write it. There’s always something else that needs doing more, even if it’s just ‘reading the internet’.
Somewhere on my harddrive I have a completely original story I started years ago (about ten, probably, maybe even more) that I was and am really quite pleased with, but it languishes without its actual breaking point and without its ending. I know what happens and why, but again, I have never been able to make myself write it.
My one attempt at NaNoWriMo failed in much the same way: lots of notes and research, some outlining, but the one scene I had fully visualized I just couldn’t get out in words.
And I’m wondering if my actual problem is not that I don’t have any ideas, though I haven’t had a great many since I stopped writing actively, but that I’m unwilling to put the strong dark emotions into words, and it seems that my ideas are dammed up in the subconscious until the known bits get all the way out. Not entirely sure I’m comfortable putting the strong bright ones into words either—the NaNoNovel scene was actually a love scene.
Anyone have suggestions?
The Harry/Draco story has acquired about 300 words of a much-earlier scene, about another 150 that immediately precede the bit I posted, and quite a few notes on stuff that goes in between, even the faint glimmerings of a plot other than the romance...but one of the scenes that I know goes there is a blazing row, I’ve even heard the dialog in my imagination though I don’t remember it at the moment, and I can’t quite convince myself to actually write it. There’s always something else that needs doing more, even if it’s just ‘reading the internet’.
Somewhere on my harddrive I have a completely original story I started years ago (about ten, probably, maybe even more) that I was and am really quite pleased with, but it languishes without its actual breaking point and without its ending. I know what happens and why, but again, I have never been able to make myself write it.
My one attempt at NaNoWriMo failed in much the same way: lots of notes and research, some outlining, but the one scene I had fully visualized I just couldn’t get out in words.
And I’m wondering if my actual problem is not that I don’t have any ideas, though I haven’t had a great many since I stopped writing actively, but that I’m unwilling to put the strong dark emotions into words, and it seems that my ideas are dammed up in the subconscious until the known bits get all the way out. Not entirely sure I’m comfortable putting the strong bright ones into words either—the NaNoNovel scene was actually a love scene.
Anyone have suggestions?
