Check-In – Day 2

[samuraiter]

Starting is either the easiest or the hardest step of the story process. I feel like the gray space between starting and finishing is the hardest, myself. ... What have you been doing?

— Thinking. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.
— Writing.
— Planning and / or researching.
— Editing.
— Sending things to the beta.
— Posting!
— Relaxing, taking a break, etc.
— Other stuff-ing. Look at the comment.

Question: How do you feel when you run out of steam in the middle of writing a story?

Comments

[autobotscoutriella]

I sketched out a plot outline for my very first challenge-participation short fic! I'm really stretching myself out of my comfort zone here, so I'm waiting to get some feedback from a friend who does some beta-ing for me on whether or not the idea is close enough to the prompt I was given, but I'm super excited that something came to mind so quickly.

When I run out of steam, it usually means I just have too much going on--stress, overwhelmed at work, that kind of thing. It's sad. Means that I need to pull back on something, and I'm not good at that, so it's usually pretty frustrating.