stalling
The usual sentiment is that whenever a writer starts slacking badly, this means that she should just keep on writing and hope for the best (e.g. that it’s her natural laziness keeping her from doing what she has to do).
For some reason, the usual rule does not work that well for me. Whenever I push myself to write, I make long and elaborate meanderings in nowhere, stuff that I’ll have to scrap anyway. Writer’s block in this form (abrupt halt in story while still being sorta interested) means one of two things:
a) I have not figured out the next plot turn,
b) there is a plot hole gaping right at my feet, and I feel it subconsciously and thus am unwilling to step forth… and if I push myself there, I’ll land with a thud five thousand words later.
So instead of pushing myself, I started poking around with my virtual notecards and discovered
1) a take 2 on my “antagonist” problem… yes, it seems that I’m changing it again (and I’m starting to doubt the whole point of having a designated villain since all I’ve found this far have promptly turned to those symphatetic and painfully flawed characters that take, in fact, *noble* choices to deal with their flaws),
2) a character inconsistency in my designated villain (she is certainly not that wicked as I thought… but a lot more naïve).
I hope I’ll find time to actually write something too today.
