Post by GirlyGhoul on Nov 9, 2006 10:54:29 GMT -4
I'm having troubles adding Jayelynn 
too. Is that the exact right spelling?
As for getting unstuck, try taking one of your characters and making yourself that person's relative so you can stick yourself in the story and write some commentary on how you think things are going. Like "Meanwhile, many miles away, Joe Blow's 2nd Cousin thrice removed, the lovely and talented Nefertiti Baker had him on her mind and was pondering how he could move forward from his current situation..." And keep going until a solution occurs. You get to wrack up the words while you brainstorm.
I keep sticking notes to myself into the text both to help myself remember, and also to keep myself typing: "Wally's omniscient Fairy Godmother GirlyGhoul felt that this scene probably would have worked better two pages ago in between the two previous scenes but knew she could fix that later with a wave of her magic editing wand"
I had kind of a slow start last night and was stalling a lot. To the point that I almost considered vaccuming and doing dishes!
(But don't worry, I said "almost" so the Universe is still safely in alignment). Once I finally got going though, I was able to knock off 1500 words in an hour (and I'd already managed a little over 500 in my earlier putzing around). So I finally cracked the 10K mark! YAY ME!
BTW GirlNamedCarl Excellent novel excerpt so far! I'm already engaged with the characters and the element of the road kill inspired artwork. Plus you've established the vultures and introduced the bunny slippers which are now corpse footwear. Brava!
And I agree Calamity, God SHOULD be able to grow a chocolate tree. Conflict and drama abounding! Perhaps the hippo holds the solution to it all.
too. Is that the exact right spelling?As for getting unstuck, try taking one of your characters and making yourself that person's relative so you can stick yourself in the story and write some commentary on how you think things are going. Like "Meanwhile, many miles away, Joe Blow's 2nd Cousin thrice removed, the lovely and talented Nefertiti Baker had him on her mind and was pondering how he could move forward from his current situation..." And keep going until a solution occurs. You get to wrack up the words while you brainstorm.
I keep sticking notes to myself into the text both to help myself remember, and also to keep myself typing: "Wally's omniscient Fairy Godmother GirlyGhoul felt that this scene probably would have worked better two pages ago in between the two previous scenes but knew she could fix that later with a wave of her magic editing wand"
I had kind of a slow start last night and was stalling a lot. To the point that I almost considered vaccuming and doing dishes!
(But don't worry, I said "almost" so the Universe is still safely in alignment). Once I finally got going though, I was able to knock off 1500 words in an hour (and I'd already managed a little over 500 in my earlier putzing around). So I finally cracked the 10K mark! YAY ME!BTW GirlNamedCarl Excellent novel excerpt so far! I'm already engaged with the characters and the element of the road kill inspired artwork. Plus you've established the vultures and introduced the bunny slippers which are now corpse footwear. Brava!
And I agree Calamity, God SHOULD be able to grow a chocolate tree. Conflict and drama abounding! Perhaps the hippo holds the solution to it all.
