Jtmoriartywriter, 8 months ago

@mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting As the best Douglas Adams always said, "bum glue".

LJ, 8 months ago

@mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting it really helps me stay productive when I schedule videochat based write-ins with writing friends.

mjjmori, 8 months ago

@LJ @bookstodon @amwriting I’ve never tried that but it’s always sounded worth a go. I’ll ask around.

pelielios, 8 months ago

@mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting A streamer I like and whose videos I often play for background noise is -- I think -- doing a Bubsy marathon tonight to repent for his sins, so I have resolved to write through the duration of the stream.

I have a good chunk ahead loosely plotted so I think this could work. I keep stalling out on book 4 even though the ending was one of the first things I wrote.

So I must suffer along with Bubsy.

mjjmori, 8 months ago

@pelielios @bookstodon @amwriting Good luck. Is that Bubsy the Bobcat? :-) I haven’t heard of that guy for years.

pelielios, 8 months ago

@mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting Bubsy the Bobcat in 3D, no less.

I won't say I'm getting a ton of writing done but with the funk I've been in lately, pecking out a few lines at a time is progress, and it's looking like we'll be here... a while. Oof.

Jtmoriartywriter, 8 months ago

@pelielios @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting It sounds like you wrote the fun part first, and now must bridge the written to the Ended, and don't like or enjoy the foreboding slog.
My 2c, but this is my take. Don't write a connecting bit, just make it 1 scene, a time jump, so the book overshoots this part you're having trouble engaging with/writing.

Bubsy was a good game, lotsa fun. And good luck!

pelielios, 8 months ago

@Jtmoriartywriter @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting Nah I think right now I'm stuck on a pivotal scene because it's going to be deeply traumatic to my sweetest, softest boy.

I've skipped around it a bit for now but a lot hinges on exactly how he processes this so it's not flowing as organically as usual.

I know where it's going but the emotions have to track from scene to scene.

pelielios, 8 months ago

@Jtmoriartywriter @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting And this is book 4 in a series, already deeply in progress... I can't exactly go "all that stuff I spent 60k words setting up? Yeah, forget all that! Boop, deleted!"

The ending is an epilogue that makes the bridge to 5 but it resolves nothing for 4.

Jtmoriartywriter, 8 months ago

@pelielios @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting Ahh, the dreaded passion. "Kill your darlings", as they say. I've written a fair few scenes with chars not making it, or suffering some huge loss, shed a tear every time. But I know the book will be better for it.

In that case set aside a proper day, schedule the time, and write it out. Get your fav drink n snacks, but you will have to work at it.

And afterwards, it'll look better. It always has for me, again this is just my suggestion, but big, uncomfortable scenes are often the ones I get the most feedback on.

Good luck <3

pelielios, 8 months ago

@Jtmoriartywriter @mjjmori @bookstodon @amwriting It's not really so bad in the grand scheme. A workplace accident, an intern gets moderately injured. It's a pretty light series.

It's that he blames himself and it builds on other insecurities/fears he has, and that he has a very gentle nature overall. He has a pretty complicated way of processing emotions, too, so it takes time to work through it with him.

(If the MC caused a similar incident he'd be barking at the intern to walk it off.)