This wouldn't happen if I finished what I started in the first place.

[jackluminous]

Wow. So this whole 'getting back into the writing groove' thing, it's feeling a little like trundling through molasses. I'm trying to finish a year-old novella, and I feel like I've literally and metaphorically lost the plot with it. Ugh. Everything feels stilted and wooden and awful. I'm soldiering on though, because I like this story, dammit.

It's also really weird for me to write something where not much action happens. People talk to each other, basically. I think it would be kind of interesting as a play or audio drama, actually. It might be a hellish and foolhardy fun exercise to adapt it into script format when it's done.

In other news, when can I stop being tired? I swear, I do sleep!

Comments

[meoryn]

Followed your journal from the writers community.

Writing dialogue is something I find tough too. I tend to like writing the action bits that happen but aren't as enthused when I have to write long scenes of dialogue. It's a neccessary evil.

[jackluminous]

It's especially hard for me because I usually write things with chase scenes and explosions and dramatic poses. My last two major stories, though, have for some godforsaken reason become character-based dialogue-fests.

[meoryn]

I'm one of those impatient writers and readers, you know the sort. I just want to get to all that action and bypass all the boring build up bits that you -have- to write when dealing with long term stories. All I want to do with my current project is get to where that action is but that's a few chapters away and I have to deal with the build up and introduction and I am seriously dragging my feet on that one.