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Just a general pop in thread
RokofAges75:
Hope you're both continuing to feel better! How's the writing going this week? I saw that you were able to update today, Mare - yay!
I finally had a good writing day yesterday and wrote almost 2k words. The day before, I only managed to write 99 words after spending hours obsessing over the smallest, stupidest details, like how to describe a door. 🤦♀️ Sometimes I get derailed by the dumbest stuff.
mare:
Yay good for you! How to describe a door? It's funny what we find ourselves obsessing over when writing. For me it's always gestures. How to accurately describe how someone is being held or where someone has their hands. It looks right but when I close my eyes and picture it, sometimes it seems like I have written it so the person has an extra hand or is bending it in an irregular possessed by Satan way. Kind of like Brian and his carrying of random heads in One Phone Call.
I'm at the critical point in my Invisible Child story where there is a lot of action and that's not always the easiest stuff to write. Seeing it all play out in my head is one thing but sometimes it's hard translating that into writing. The writing on that one is going well. Because it's at the critical (at least what I considered critical) part of the story, it's just been flowing. I'm supposed to be jumping back to my Thursday one today but instead, I'm going to keep working on invisible instead. I have no clue where I'm even going with the other one to be honest. It was originally supposed to be a slash which I thought I'd be daring and try, but nope. Quickly I realized that wouldn't work so my characters are in a kind of limbo. I don't feel too bad for ignoring it because it doesn't get any love.
I'm feeling much better, but I am really tired. Which is good because my body never gets enough sleep except when you're schedule oriented like I am, sleeping in isn't easy. You'd think because I don't have to work anymore I would ease up on that, but nope. I still force myself to start my day at 5:30 :shrug:
RokofAges75:
Yes, a door! So stupid. I tried to move on from it, but I just kept coming back to that damn description. I think I may have been subconsciously stalling, though, because I'm at one of those places where I know I need to get from Point A to Point B but am not exactly sure how I'm going to get there, which is the hard part of plantsing. At this point, I'm probably just going to write a conversation where the characters talk through the problem and see what solution they come up with because I can't decide LOL.
Brian carrying random heads on his shoulder... 🤣 I still think of that whenever I hear One Phone Call!
I totally get what you mean with the gestures and actions, though. Sometimes I have to act things out myself to figure out what works, then figure out how to describe it.
Action can definitely be challenging to write! You want to describe what's happening in enough detail that readers can picture it, too, but you don't want to slow down the action with too much description. I'm glad it's been going well, though! I love those scenes where the writing just flows, especially when it's an important scene that you've been looking forward to or worrying about. If it's going well, I would stick with it and not worry about your other story for now, especially if no one's begging you for updates.
I'm sorry you're stuck on the other one! Was slash not working for the characters or for you as a writer? I found slash super awkward to write at first. It got easier and more comfortable for me the further I got into the story, but I still giggled whenever I wrote any kind of love scene between Nick and Howie. The research that went into some of the more "graphic" (by my standards, not by AO3's) scenes was even more awkward, but hey, I learned a lot! LOL
I'm glad you're feeling better! That's so crazy that you still get up at 5:30 every morning, especially when I know you wake up in the middle of the night and post a meme every night LOL. Lately, I've still been up when you post them. I was doing pretty well at not staying up ALL night until this week, when I finally had that good writing day. I wrote all night, and now my sleep schedule's all messed up again. It was almost 5 a.m. when I went to bed this morning, which means I didn't fall asleep until almost 6, and then I slept until almost 2. I've missed my late night/early morning writing sessions, though. There's just something so cozy and satisfying about writing when it's dark and quiet, and the rest of the world is asleep. But I leave for Pigeon Forge on Friday, so I need to get back to sleeping at night and waking up in the morning in the next three days LOL.
Carter-Orange:
Sorry to hear you're both having a few troubles with getting your writing done. I agree you want it to be descriptive enough without holding back on the action.
I struggle to get to 11pm without falling asleep lol, and I'm always up before 7am even on the weekend.
Yes, I hope our new government will do a good job. I hope Biden decides to step down and be replaced by someone younger and more competent for you. I think he's past it and should just enjoy his retirement.
RokofAges75:
Writing has gone better for me the past couple of days. The start of a new chapter or scene almost always goes slow for me, but once I get past the set up and into the actual scene, it goes faster. That's where I am now. Trying to finish Chapter 61 before I leave on vacation, and then I'll have three chapters finished that aren't posted yet.
I honestly don't know why anyone would want to continue to work into their 80s if they didn't have to, especially doing one of the most stressful jobs there is. That being said, I don't think Biden is going to step down at this point, and if he did, I worry the change would just cause more chaos. I just hope Democrats and anyone who cares about democracy will unite and vote against Trump in November, regardless of who they're voting for. Biden may be old and not as sharp as he used to be, but I do think he's a decent person who has surrounded himself with decent, intelligent people who will support him through a second term if he's re-elected. The media is causing more panic about it than there needs to be and just making the situation worse.
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