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.
Anyone around for a beta? I'm going bananas about chapter two.
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).
Send away if you want-- Fashionista35@comcast.net
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.
oooh! Comment! Comment!
I've been horribly nervous.
oh, you are posting on LJ? Can I be on the filter?
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.
Sure. What's your LJ again?
