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*sigh*
I'm having such trouble writing at the moment. It's like wading through molasses in lead-lined boots... just going really, really slowly. For whatever reason I'm just not motivated at the moment, and I can't convince myself that what I do manage to write is any good, that it's not boring and pointless.
I think the problem is probably that I'm in a transitional part, where I need to travel between big plot points, and I had a little while where I didn't write at all because of busyness and procrastination, and now it's getting hard to start again. But it's so frustrating, and I spend more time being frustrated about it than I do writing.
I'm thinking that I might buy a new ream of paper, print off the whole thing so far and just read it through, see where I am. Try and get myself going again. And maybe buy a writing book - they always get me going and enthusiastic.
In fact, the writing book idea is a good one. I'll do that, then.
I just... I'm so close to finishing, or at least I feel like I am even if I have maybe another 20,000 words to write or something. I really, really want to finish it and have a complete first draft, and it's just not happening. I want to scream, it feels like there's so much pressure in my chest trying to burst out, like my ribcage is going to split open or something and shower irritation everywhere.
I really, really need to get over this rough patch.
I think the problem is probably that I'm in a transitional part, where I need to travel between big plot points, and I had a little while where I didn't write at all because of busyness and procrastination, and now it's getting hard to start again. But it's so frustrating, and I spend more time being frustrated about it than I do writing.
I'm thinking that I might buy a new ream of paper, print off the whole thing so far and just read it through, see where I am. Try and get myself going again. And maybe buy a writing book - they always get me going and enthusiastic.
In fact, the writing book idea is a good one. I'll do that, then.
I just... I'm so close to finishing, or at least I feel like I am even if I have maybe another 20,000 words to write or something. I really, really want to finish it and have a complete first draft, and it's just not happening. I want to scream, it feels like there's so much pressure in my chest trying to burst out, like my ribcage is going to split open or something and shower irritation everywhere.
I really, really need to get over this rough patch.