It's sad; I'd really like to be working on Juniper right now, but I just can't. It's not like I'm super absorbed in anything else right now, though I am doing ok working on Role of Seven, so at least something is getting done, but not working on Juniper is really bother me because it's been so long since I've updated it (not to mention Yuusen, but I have a bad track record with that story anyways).
Hopefully, the bug will bite soon. I've tried re-reading it a few times, but that almost seems to make it worse. I think by this point it's anxiety that's getting to me. I've been anticipating the chapter that I'm working on now for a long time. I feel like I know exactly what needs to happen in this chapter, but I just can't seem to write it. The transitions especially, but that happens a lot too. I might try just writing one or two sequences that I feel like I know by heart in my head (you know like I have them completely visualized already). Maybe if I can write one of those, the transition will write itself.
It's just that people seem to complain a bit that I'm leaving parts out but that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm just trying to write the important stuff and then when I can't write the more boring transitions the chapter feels disjointed and I have to place larger time jumps into chapters.
Bleh, anyways, I'll keep trying and hopefully an update for Juniper will come sometime in May.
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Can I offer a suggestion? Only because you really sound frustrated that you can’t write this. When I have written chapters that get thrown out umpteen times because it just not working, I do this trick I learned from my old college Lit professor. Write an outline. Go back and fill out outline a little more, walk away. Come back and fill it out a little more. Walk away and come back and put in small notes of little things you want in at certain points of the outline, and after a few times of coming back to fill out outline, you will find that the story starts to flow again, especially as the chapter is now sitting in front of you with what you need to do. This trick has a name, but I have (cough) been out of college so long I can’t remember it. It got me through many college papers and short stories. Hope it helps, although don’t let it drive you; it may also be that you are just in Ro7 mode that nothing else can get through. You may need to wait until you have Ro7 slowing down in your mind before anything else will work. I love Juniper but I can wait if your muse is only seeing Ro7 right now.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that recommendation. I'm definitely going to try it some time this week and see if it helps. I put a note up later if it does. Until then, I'm definitely sticking with Ro7 a little longer because it's going so well.
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