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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Breaking the Block - Changing the Point of View

I finally broke the writer's block. I switched my sub-character for my main character and the story took on a whole new feel. I'm pretty excited about it. So I'm revamping my character sketches and plot sketches a little bit to accommodate. Having the story unfold in this character's eyes has really opened things up. I might switch it around again, who knows? For now though, I have some definite structure coming about. I have even started on my plot sketches, though I am certain they will change around quite a bit before I get to the fun stuff of actually writing.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Writer's block already?

It's true, I haven't even started the actually writing yet and I'm having writer's block. I'm stuck. I know how the main conflict is going to work itself out, but I'm not overly impressed with it. To explain what I mean I have to tell you a little bit about myself. Last year I started a novel and it was awesome. Every time I came up with a new twist or turn I got a rush like no other. I would get high and giddy, what an awesome feeling. I haven't gotten that once with this project. I never finished the other project because while I was working on it, my sister was murdered. My life was turned upside down and inside out, so trying to go back to anything before that is very difficult, in the case of the novel, it's impossible. Maybe someday...
So I'm disappointed that feeling doesn't come about with this novel and I'm stuck on the romance storyline of it all. So I did what any warmblooded woman would do, I went shopping! I got new pens, colorful sticky notes, highlighters, paper, a few notebooks, dividers and other paraphernalia. It hasn't helped the situation but I feel better and I got to spend time color-coding and organizing everything - which really just means I spent time making myself feel like I was being productive on the progress of my novel when I was just killing time. Hey if you can't fool yourself, who can ya fool?