Daily Check-In Post: May 15, 2011

[jagnikjen]

This is your daily check-in post!

Tell us how your day has gone, writing wise:

Awesome!
Pretty good.
On schedule.
Okay.
Like crap.
I've taken the day off.

Share your word count if you've got one; your current research (whether surfing the Net or re-watching/re-reading your fandom source); are you refreshing your well of creativity by reading, watching TV or seeing a movie; listening to music; or has real life taken a swipe at you?

Discussion questions:

What aspect/s of writing do you struggle with the most and would most like to see a discussion on?

What aspect/s of writing do you find easy?

Comments

[anyssia]

So many different combinations! I find plot easily too, but I don't lose interest, it's the opposite: I think too much about it, come up with so many things to add, and then the task seems so daunting, I can't push myself to begin because it will take me years to finish it ^^::

[curuchamion]

'I think too much about it, come up with so many things to add'

I know the feeling! I always hit a point in developing a longish story idea where it suddenly blimps into a novel, and usually I go "Eek!" and scale it back to the one pivotal scene I actually wind up writing (if that scene works as a stand-alone). I'm pretty boggled that I haven't yet gotten completely blocked by that on this project.

*ack, my syntax*

[anyssia]

(^^ don't worry for your syntax, English isn't my mother tongue, so chances are that I won't even see your errors and such ;p)

Sometimes, I wonder how novel writers can manage to write a whole saga and keep it up without trapping themselves in a dead end or going totally off topic.

I'd love if I could do the same thing as you, but I hate deleting, rewriting large parts, so when it's done, either I can find a way to keep it like that, and I keep going, or I definitively can't and then it'll take me days to get up the courage of working it again ;D