July 28, 2003
*flop*
Another 800 or so words, making this a 2,000 word day. Some of that was outline work, filling in details and getting them out of my head before I could work on starting the new scene. It's funny, some days the words come and they're all crystal clear and others they feel muddy and blah and when you finish you try and remember exactly what you said and can't. That's how this afternoon was.
Interestingly enough, that feeling isn't always indicative of the writing being bad. Sometimes it is, but sometimes it's just that maybe I'm writing more directly from my unconscious or something. Unfortunately, I have a hunch today was not one of those days.
I keep telling myself, that's what second drafts are for.
Posted by Lisa at July 28, 2003 05:29 PMI've heard the theory that if the writing is coming too easily, you are possibly writing a bunch of (wait for it...) cliches that you don't have to really think about.
Of course... I don't know that I buy that theory.
Posted by: Mer at July 29, 2003 10:15 AMI totally don't buy into that theory. That comes from the school of thought that insists that writing must mean SUFFERING! That true art can only come if one is starving in a garret, or at the very least, a miserable bastard.
I mean, writing is hard, definitely, but that doesn't mean that it should always feel like every single word is being dragged from the depths of your soul. ;)
Posted by: Lisa at July 29, 2003 10:35 AM