MM - wish I could help you with the grey fog. When I hit it I normally end up filling a few pages with "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and giving up.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Typo Boy - Aug 14, 2008 11:28:19 am PDT #636 of 6687
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Barb - Aug 14, 2008 11:34:42 am PDT #637 of 6687
“Not dead yet!”
There's always the DLD draft, aka, the Don't Look Down draft. You just write down the story in whatever language comes to you, without looking down, no editing allowed. In essence you're giving yourself permission to write crap and know that you can go back and fix it.
I have a very hard time with this method because the internal editor is a big pain in my ass, but I know people who have used the method to break out.
My way of breaking out of the writing fog is to write longhand on a legal pad or in a journal. It's kind of the same idea of the DLD draft because you have far less opportunity to go back and edit.
Allyson - Aug 14, 2008 11:39:50 am PDT #638 of 6687
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Anyone around for a beta? I'm going bananas about chapter two.
Barb - Aug 14, 2008 11:47:37 am PDT #639 of 6687
“Not dead yet!”
::raises hand::
What do you need?
Allyson - Aug 14, 2008 11:50:47 am PDT #640 of 6687
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I need to know if the story flows or clunks along, what resonates, what falls on its face, what seems trite/dumbed down (which is my biggest ish with writing for kids, it seems I'm afraid I'm talking down to them).
Barb - Aug 14, 2008 11:51:54 am PDT #641 of 6687
“Not dead yet!”
Send away if you want-- Fashionista35@comcast.net
Liese S. - Aug 14, 2008 11:55:26 am PDT #642 of 6687
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm here, too, Allyson. Is this what you've posted on lj? 'Cause I'm about to comment over there. Sorry I've been such a flake about betaing for you. It's a marvelous story.
Allyson - Aug 14, 2008 11:57:15 am PDT #643 of 6687
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
oooh! Comment! Comment!
I've been horribly nervous.
Stephanie - Aug 14, 2008 12:04:48 pm PDT #644 of 6687
Trust my rage
oh, you are posting on LJ? Can I be on the filter?
Laga - Aug 14, 2008 12:07:01 pm PDT #645 of 6687
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
MM (not that I've ever finished anything I've started but) what works for me is to skip ahead to a place I had already thought about and write about that until the blanks are ready to be filled in.