Today I’m checking in with all of you throughout my writingday to talk about my attempts to work through this part of my story that’s justnot flowing!

8:00 am

Well, it’s a little bit early in the morning for me, Iusually record my podcast later in the day, but I’m stuck on a project, and Ithought it would be really interesting if I could sort of  talk through this “stuckness” so thatother writers could see what methods I’m going to use, and we can figure outwhat’s going to work for me.

I know it’s not like an internal resistance to writingthat’s got me stuck right now because I really want to write this scene…

12:30 pm

So, first of all, I took some of my own advice from lastweek and I found a notepad and I put it next to my keyboard, and as I was stuckI was like, “Okay, I just need to say what they’re both feeling.” So I wrote alittle paragraph about what each of them were feeling, and okay, that wasgreat. I went back to writing, and I found that the way the were feeling wasn’tinforming the scene…

4:30 pm

All right, I’m back, checking in again. I’ve written for afew hours, I think about three hours, and what I initially wrote…you know, Iwrote for a while and then I just suddenly hated it….

Hopefully I fixed whatever was broken in my story and I willnow be on track to finish this elusive thing! I hope hearing me try to handlethe weirdness will give you some inspiration the next time you’re feeling likethose words are just not flowing.

No assignment this week. Go write!

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