So the new writing project? Yeah, I'd like to say it's going smoothly. I'd like to say I'm in love with the story, deep in the characters and enthralled with the twists and turns of my brilliant plot.
So far, my friends... we are 0 for 3. Le sigh. (An aside-- it's just SAD that looney toons in any way makes an appearance in my vocabulary!)
Anyway. Back to the topic at hand. I'm thousands of words behind my target, and not entirely sure how to break the vicious cycle. Hmm.
This is and has always been my favorite story. My favorite hero. At present I'm rewriting in first person present tense to see if that helps me connect with the story a little more. Mostly, I feel the writing is generic-- which means I haven't found the voice of the story, an issue I've always struggled with on this particular piece. But there has to be light at the end of the tunnel, right?
Surely if I keep pounding away at it, I'll hit a stride eventually? This has become for me almost no longer about NaNoWriMo (that didn't take long, right?) and moreso about uncovering the voice of the story and connecting with the characters I so deeply adore. Only I'm pretty well clueless as to how to do that.
I know these characters, I could tell you pretty much anything about them. So it's not an issue of filling out a character chart or something. I just need to let myself fall in love with them again, I guess. Somehow connect with them at a heart level and let them tell the story in their distinctive voices.
All right... lament over. Back to the writing board.
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I feel the pain. The farthest I've ever gotten is 40 pages and it's absolutely heartbreaking. It's always that I don't have enough time, or I can't write it the way I want to, or I get stuck on a certain area, etc. Whatever the reason I've never been able to finish anything. I really should take a page from your book and just hammer at it.
That'd be fun. I think the hard thing is that inspiration and discipline are like twins that hate each other. It seems like I just can't get the two of them to work together sometimes. *sigh* Maybe that's why so many writers feel so manic! :)
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