Writer's block 12/11/2009
I guess we all get it. One of those times when you can't get in the groove. When your characters won't talk to you. You can see them, imagine them. But Ravindra's lying back in the chair in his office, hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling. Morgan just throws me one of those 'looks'. And I don't know where I'm going. Or more particularly, where they're going. Well... I do, but that's at the end. That's the thing about books. You know where they start, you know where they finish. But how do you get from one to the other? So I thought 'bugger it. I'll work out how they get there later.' And I wrote the BIG chapter. And it all started to flow. And then I went back and started the second big chapter. From there, I came up with a title and the ideas queued up in a semi-orderly fashion to the extent I had to write some down. On a roll now. 'The Temple of Krystor', book two of 'A Legacy of War', is well underway. Oh, and if you're interested, I wrote the Big Sex Scene ages ago. (Grins) CommentsSat, 12 Dec 2009 5:34:51 am You mean there are writers who actually write their chapters *in order*??? Typically, my first chapters are some of the last I write. Until then, whatever inspires and puts words on paper... Leave a Reply |
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