Comments on: Staging A Rescue of the Untrusting http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/ read with hunger, write with joy, live with passion Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cecelia http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16252 Cecelia Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:24:50 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16252 I love writing. Why is this so hard? Everyone I know says to me "You should write!" And I agree. I do write. But sometimes I have days that I feel like my brain is silly putty. Only not as useful. Could only wring out about 100, very hard-fought words tonight. I just can't seem to get the beginning right. Either I feel like I'm moving too fast, trying to throw too much at the reader, or I'm being too leisurely. There is so much backstory to deal with. Do I throw it all in at the beginning. Do the David Copperfield "crap", or do I spoon-feed it throughout the story. An important part of my main character's motivation is her own need for approval, her emerging from being a rebellious and angry young woman, and her maturing into a caring and responsible young housewife. Hmmm, maybe I have not explored her character as thoroughly as I thought. Maybe I don't need to make the reader aware of her youthful anger. Maybe that isn't really important. I think I'll take some time to go back to her personal dossier and get her motivation a little clearer in my mind. If I don't have to deal with her past history of anger, maybe the flashback thing with smooth out. Just a frustrating day all in all. I love writing. Why is this so hard? Everyone I know says to me “You should write!” And I agree. I do write. But sometimes I have days that I feel like my brain is silly putty. Only not as useful. Could only wring out about 100, very hard-fought words tonight. I just can’t seem to get the beginning right. Either I feel like I’m moving too fast, trying to throw too much at the reader, or I’m being too leisurely. There is so much backstory to deal with. Do I throw it all in at the beginning. Do the David Copperfield “crap”, or do I spoon-feed it throughout the story. An important part of my main character’s motivation is her own need for approval, her emerging from being a rebellious and angry young woman, and her maturing into a caring and responsible young housewife. Hmmm, maybe I have not explored her character as thoroughly as I thought. Maybe I don’t need to make the reader aware of her youthful anger. Maybe that isn’t really important. I think I’ll take some time to go back to her personal dossier and get her motivation a little clearer in my mind. If I don’t have to deal with her past history of anger, maybe the flashback thing with smooth out. Just a frustrating day all in all.

]]> By: Gabby http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16251 Gabby Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:09:53 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16251 Still stuck in transition... I think maybe 250 words. The whole mood of the scene is wrong (too introspective, too sad...) I can't seem to get back into the narrator's voice I'd been using/can't seem to get all that interested in this section of the story. I'll have to try again tomorrow. Still stuck in transition… I think maybe 250 words. The whole mood of the scene is wrong (too introspective, too sad…) I can’t seem to get back into the narrator’s voice I’d been using/can’t seem to get all that interested in this section of the story. I’ll have to try again tomorrow.

]]> By: red_dot http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16250 red_dot Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:15:45 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16250 Ok since I have never written before having a writer's block for a month sucked major ass. I don't know why I lost the voice in my head, but I did...is it the holidays coming, was it the distractions from halloween, 24th anniversary or the U2 concert in Vegas. I don't know, at least Bono tried to light a fire under my ass with his injection of ISS in the concert. I did get my voice back today and got 450 words. I'm at CH8 with 29K now, I also added outline adjustments to several chapters today. Back on the pony! Ok since I have never written before having a writer’s block for a month sucked major ass. I don’t know why I lost the voice in my head, but I did…is it the holidays coming, was it the distractions from halloween, 24th anniversary or the U2 concert in Vegas. I don’t know, at least Bono tried to light a fire under my ass with his injection of ISS in the concert. I did get my voice back today and got 450 words. I’m at CH8 with 29K now, I also added outline adjustments to several chapters today. Back on the pony!

]]> By: Tori http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16249 Tori Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:52:01 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16249 About 1700 words yesterday for Nano. I actually had an easier time with those words in comparison with the last couple days. And I was worried Week Two would kill me! Hopefully today I get the same results. It seems I am procrastinating yet again. About 1700 words yesterday for Nano. I actually had an easier time with those words in comparison with the last couple days. And I was worried Week Two would kill me! Hopefully today I get the same results. It seems I am procrastinating yet again.

]]> By: Jessica http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16248 Jessica Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:56:43 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16248 Maybe ask yourself what it was that made you excited in the first place? Have you strayed too far from the planned plot (if you have one)? Can you twist the current scene? Or maybe try skipping ahead to a completely different scene, one you really really wanted to write (candybar). Also, there is Holly's "Butn it, Bury it, Let it Live": http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/burnit.html Maybe ask yourself what it was that made you excited in the first place? Have you strayed too far from the planned plot (if you have one)? Can you twist the current scene? Or maybe try skipping ahead to a completely different scene, one you really really wanted to write (candybar).

Also, there is Holly’s “Butn it, Bury it, Let it Live”:
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/burnit.html

]]> By: The Pencil Neck http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16247 The Pencil Neck Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:50:47 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16247 My suggestion is: Just write through it. Get to the end. Then put it away for awhile and come back to it later with fresh eyes and fresh ideas. YMMV. My suggestion is: Just write through it. Get to the end. Then put it away for awhile and come back to it later with fresh eyes and fresh ideas.

YMMV.

]]> By: Lisa R http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16246 Lisa R Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:00:47 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16246 270 words on the novel and 300+ on my someday project that I take notes on. I tried a new spot to write at because my favorite coffee house isn't open as late as the daughter's rehearsals. The new spot was terribly noisy: loud music and loud employees. I was the only customer. So, I will go back to the library and take my coffee with me!!! I don't like what I am writing at the moment, but I am allowing myself "to write the crap" and I will deal with it at a later date! 270 words on the novel and 300+ on my someday project that I take notes on. I tried a new spot to write at because my favorite coffee house isn’t open as late as the daughter’s rehearsals. The new spot was terribly noisy: loud music and loud employees. I was the only customer. So, I will go back to the library and take my coffee with me!!!

I don’t like what I am writing at the moment, but I am allowing myself “to write the crap” and I will deal with it at a later date!

]]> By: Eve http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16245 Eve Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:23:21 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16245 329 last night. I wasn't going to write anything. I still hadn't worked out how I want the hatching scene to play out, but in the last half hour or so before bed I forced myself to plop down and start working. I'm glad I did. I got a foot into the scene and can see where I want it to go now, what the attitudes of the characters are toward each other and what's going on. I'm going to have to go back and figure out where the dog is, though. He was with the boys in the car moments ago, extremely agitated by the proximity of the suspicious smelling rock, but I don't want him to meet the fledgling dragon until later. He may end up being confined to the basement for all the racket he's stirring up. 329 last night. I wasn’t going to write anything. I still hadn’t worked out how I want the hatching scene to play out, but in the last half hour or so before bed I forced myself to plop down and start working. I’m glad I did. I got a foot into the scene and can see where I want it to go now, what the attitudes of the characters are toward each other and what’s going on. I’m going to have to go back and figure out where the dog is, though. He was with the boys in the car moments ago, extremely agitated by the proximity of the suspicious smelling rock, but I don’t want him to meet the fledgling dragon until later. He may end up being confined to the basement for all the racket he’s stirring up.

]]> By: Cecelia http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16244 Cecelia Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:04:20 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16244 1664 last night - Monday - Just pushing on here, not really feeling captivated by my own words as I probably should at this point. I've been at this story a long time. Maybe too long? How do you know when to kiss it and go to something else? It's llike an errant child, you love it, you've put a lot of work into it, and don't want to give up on it. Maybe I'm just having a bad day. 1664 last night – Monday – Just pushing on here, not really feeling captivated by my own words as I probably should at this point. I’ve been at this story a long time. Maybe too long? How do you know when to kiss it and go to something else? It’s llike an errant child, you love it, you’ve put a lot of work into it, and don’t want to give up on it. Maybe I’m just having a bad day.

]]> By: Emily http://hollylisle.com/staging-a-rescue-of-the-untrusting/comment-page-1/#comment-16243 Emily Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:19:17 +0000 http://hollylisle.com/writingdiary2/?p=5221#comment-16243 3,007 words. And... now I have no idea what comes next. 3,007 words. And… now I have no idea what comes next.

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