Weaving and Blocking
I’ve done pretty well in wordcounts this week, but not as good as I’d like. I’m having a hard time creating more writing time since I’ve been working late at the day-job. I plan to make up for it on the weekends, though. No reason I can’t get several thousand done then.
I’m hitting the point now where I’m starting to weave in the new writing with the old draft that’s already written. It’s tricky, since while the old draft may be fine, it doesn’t always fit with the new beginning. I think I need to re-read the six chapters I have done and make lists of things I need to remember, continue, or wrap up. It’s too easy to slip back into what’s already written and forget where I was going. I need something to remind me of all the little threads I need to keep weaving.
I hit a point yesterday where I realized that the way a particular scene had been done just didn’t work any more, and had to backtrack a few hundred words. I’m still learning how to tell the I-just-don’t-want-to-write hesitation that has to be pushed through from the this-is-wrong hesitation that means I have to go in a different direction. (At least I finally figured out that if a scene is boring and uninteresting to write, it probably won’t be interesting to read either.)
Sometimes it’s as easy to fix as asking myself, what’s the worst thing that could happen now, and making it happen. Sometimes it means going back several pages and re-writing. A serious block for me has so far always been a story issue, luckily. And as long as I’m sitting my butt down in the chair consistently every day, I don’t usually have too much I-don’t-want-to-write blocks to work through. Take a few days off, though, and that can change. That’s the major reason I’ve actually stuck to a write-every-day schedule.
Well. Mostly stuck to it. A little flexibilty is good, right? Right.