Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing-a-draft"
New Old Projects
The exciting feeling I get starting a new writing project provides so much momentum. It helps power me through the plot problems, the story line doldrums. It keeps me plodding along until that rough draft is done.
My new two books were powered along by this momentum making it so much easier to keep working on draft after draft. Having the two did provide some help as I could work on one for a new draft. Then I would shift to the other one to do a new draft. By the time I was ready to shift back to the first one again, it felt fresher, easier to work on.
Now the two are done. And an old partial draft sits waiting for attention. That momentum is long gone. The draft isn't.
This is no fault of the draft. It is the third in my series and needs to close out the second book. I know the characters. I now know the complete, more or less, plot. Any writer knows plots can take surprise twists.
What's missing is the magic.
I'm in the middle section, the doldrums. This is the place where the draft suddenly feels like a stupid waste of time. It isn't really.
Writing will now be work. Each page will take outlines. Each word will take effort.
Maybe, if I keep slogging, some of the magic will return. I hope so. Slogging is no fun and writing is supposed to be fun.
My new two books were powered along by this momentum making it so much easier to keep working on draft after draft. Having the two did provide some help as I could work on one for a new draft. Then I would shift to the other one to do a new draft. By the time I was ready to shift back to the first one again, it felt fresher, easier to work on.
Now the two are done. And an old partial draft sits waiting for attention. That momentum is long gone. The draft isn't.
This is no fault of the draft. It is the third in my series and needs to close out the second book. I know the characters. I now know the complete, more or less, plot. Any writer knows plots can take surprise twists.
What's missing is the magic.
I'm in the middle section, the doldrums. This is the place where the draft suddenly feels like a stupid waste of time. It isn't really.
Writing will now be work. Each page will take outlines. Each word will take effort.
Maybe, if I keep slogging, some of the magic will return. I hope so. Slogging is no fun and writing is supposed to be fun.
