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If so, did you want to punch Ross and did you cheer when Dimelza slapped him after that one episode?
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Well this topic died. 🙁 3 months…
@graciegirl If you and @kate-flournoy want to talk about your MBTI, that’s what most of this topic ended up being about. I know nothing about it, so I’ll just let you…yeah. 😀
So, to fire this old thing up again, does anyone ever NOT want to plan…or write…or do anything, and you just procrastinate forever? Like, right now, I have this great idea, and I don’t want to plan, I try to write (it didn’t work). I just want it to exist. 😛 People say to start from the ending…the problem is that I did, and now I can get to the end.
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@dragon-snapper *helps you perform CPR on discussion*
I do that too much. It’s like I want my finished novel in front of me without any work. 😛 One way that helps me to bust that feeling is to remind myself why I’m writing in the first place.
I haven’t tried writing the ending first. I think I should, though…So, a few weeks ago, I was at the dinner table, and my dad asked me what I was thinking because I apparently had that “deep look” on my face. And so I told him. Haha. Oops. I went off on a trail about villains…and their methods… And it didn’t really help that I started laughing at the I’m-kind-of-scared expressions on their faces. So yeah. Don’t look into the mind of a writer. 😛
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@dragon-snapper Ha! My problem is exactly the opposite. I plan WAY too much, if that’s even possible, and then my stories never end up getting buckled down because I keep changing things. Which is hilarious, because when I first started writing (2 years ago, to be exact) I literally knew NOTHING about writing, period, and didn’t plan at all. Needless to say, I’m not editing anymore. I’m rewriting… :/
@Sleepwalkingmk I so get that. My family thinks I’m a complete psychopath because I know the ways of villains a little too well… And it doesn’t help that some of my favorite literary/film characters are villains…*breaks off into a peal of evil cackling*
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@Dragon-Snapper not usually, but I seem to be in a slump right now and I think it’s just because I’m so busy my brain is dead. I’ve been doing a ton of planning but by the time I get around to my writing time my brain is positively numb. *commiserates with you because she has no solution*
Actually maybe I do have a solution. I have noticed that when I set a pattern of FINISHING what I start and not just starting, it’s easier to keep going. Set yourself manageable goals (one paragraph; one page) and check them off one at a time and take a minute to be satisfied at what you accomplished, then keep going.@sleepwalkingMK We have a heartbeat. 😀 I wish I could sit at my computer and say ‘Let there be words!’
@ethryndal Ew…rewriting. How’s that going for ya? I’m dreading that for when I’m finished editing my hard copy…
@kate-flournoy Not the slump! It must be a national things, because that’s me write now as well. I can’t seem to write anything. *somebody tell me to read more books* In the past few months I’ve probably only read two or three books in all. I have no motivation to read any more, though I know that it’s crucial to writing. I NEED to try your solution.Recently, I’ve been in the writing slump, that Kate mentioned. I thought that I’d reached the end of my rope. Of course, I thought that years ago when I wrote my first stories. I reread it a few nights ago, and I realized how much my writing has grown. Trust me when I say it’s better. 😛 You all ever read stuff you wrote forever ago?
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@Dragon-Snapper READ MORE BOOKS. 😛 Do you like fantasy? Read The Songkeeper Chronicles, by Gillian Bronte Adams. The third book isn’t out yet but the first two are awesome. Do you like Saxon culture and coming-of-age? Read The Edge on the Sword, by Rebecca Tingle. Do you like medieval stories? The Red Keep and Rolf and the Viking Bow, both by Allen French. Also Dove in the Eagle’s Nest, by Charlotte M. Younge if you can find it; it’s really old. 😛
@kate-flournoy 😛 Thanks, I’ll have to look into those.
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@dragon-snapper Well, if it’s any comfort, I doubt you’ll have to do as much rewriting as me. My rewriting entails the entire book. Literally. If it weren’t so sad, it actually be kind of funny. But I hate rewriting, so it’s NOT FUNNY. At all. *gnashes teeth and tears out hair*
Carry on. 😀
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@ethryndal *doesn’t laugh* There, there. It’ll be alright. We writers make sacrificeses for the world, doesn’t we, precious?
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@Ethryndal *gives you moral support and commiseration* I had to rewrite my entire WIP as well. It seemed impossible at the start, but now I’m almost done and though it still makes me want to tear my hair out sometimes it’s really not so bad. It gets better, dear. It does. We promises. 😉
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