lessons I shouldn't need to relearn

[swan_tower]

I'm currently trying to revise something, and the further I go into it, the more I'm bogging down.

Maybe because I, y'know, skipped over that one scene, the one where I need to change it around to do something new, but I'm not yet sure how I want to spin the thing I want it to do, and even once I figure that out I'll need outside help to set up the execution correctly, and all of that's a valid reason for skipping over it, right?

Yeah. Right. Except for the bit where I've snagged my narrative on a thorn, and can't go on until I've un-snagged it. My alternative is a narrative with a big ol' rip in it, and that kind of defeats the purpose of revision.

<sigh> I shouldn't need to remind myself of these things. And yet I do, because when you get right down to it I'm lazy, and this is a big indigestible chunk of work I keep wanting to put off. But obviously it's past time for me to writer up and deal with it already.

Comments

[scribblemyname]

I love that phrase to writer up! I have a similar problem a lot of times. I don't want to work through the junk I don't know how to get through, even if not working through it means everything else has to wait. Ah well. We get it eventually. Good luck to you!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I figured it neatly dodged the gender-bias of "man up." :-)

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

You have my phone number, right? (;

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Actually, this is a tarot scene in a non-Onyx Court story. But my friendly neighborhood moonandserpent just helped me work through the nuts and bolts of it.

[c0untmystars.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I know the feeling. For my latest thing I forced myself to write my way through scenes I was having trouble with just because I knew that sort of thing would happen, but I still ended up with holes because I had to move two chapters from near the beginning to near the end, and I have to work out the changes that will make it work.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

My sympathies.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. "Writer up" has just become a part of my vocabulary. Thank you. I think.