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I did some work on May Queen last night as Moy Tura Echoes seems to have stalled. I know what I have to write, what I have to write to get there and I know where the whole thing is going, I just can't seem to get it down on paper! May Queen on the other hand is just sparkling along for me. I can't understand it but think I will just have to go with it for now and follow the May Queen story until Moy Tura is ready to unravel again. So frustrating. I have an idea for a short as well, but finding the time to sit down with it is proving a challenge. I'm also wondering if its a bit of a cliche, but I probably won't know until I start writing.
I have bits of May Queen laid out like a jigsaw. Scenes I previously wrote. This is a method I used to use a lot and I think I might well go back to it. Of course, it does mean you need something resembling and outline first, which I am notoriously bad at doing. It's fun to leap about in time though. I find it easier to get the story written, but does require a LOT more polishing afterwards.
I think writing The Penitent kind of threw me - I more or less sat down and wrote that one, longhand, from start to finish. It just flowed in a way that subsequent novels (or novel attempts) have not. So by switching to the jumping around procedure I might get more written (even if I do leave more work later)??? I dunno. Gotta keep trying I guess.
I am miffed about Moy Tura though. I felt as if it was finally getting somewhere and then it just slams into a brick wall. Another part of me is saying go back and hammer at it until you get through, but what time will I be wasting? And if May Queen is ready to be written, as it appears to be, perhaps its time for that.
Main problem is the whole two books at once thing, which was an accident I got myself into!
Right now I have two A4 notebook which I am carrying around - one for Moy Tura, and one for May Queen (it was meant to be for short stories but there you go). Hopefully, though being back at work means less time, it makes me more regimented so I feel I should write during the evening, rather than the time off pathetic display of "I'll just write a couple of... Oh look, Bones is on tv!"
Yes its all a bit of "ooo Shiney!" with me these days. I am easily distracted. Chronic tiredness does that to a body. And nothing induces chronic tiredness like two small people running your life.
So what do you think? (About the novels, the approach, the self-absorption etc.) not the chronic tiredness???
I have bits of May Queen laid out like a jigsaw. Scenes I previously wrote. This is a method I used to use a lot and I think I might well go back to it. Of course, it does mean you need something resembling and outline first, which I am notoriously bad at doing. It's fun to leap about in time though. I find it easier to get the story written, but does require a LOT more polishing afterwards.
I think writing The Penitent kind of threw me - I more or less sat down and wrote that one, longhand, from start to finish. It just flowed in a way that subsequent novels (or novel attempts) have not. So by switching to the jumping around procedure I might get more written (even if I do leave more work later)??? I dunno. Gotta keep trying I guess.
I am miffed about Moy Tura though. I felt as if it was finally getting somewhere and then it just slams into a brick wall. Another part of me is saying go back and hammer at it until you get through, but what time will I be wasting? And if May Queen is ready to be written, as it appears to be, perhaps its time for that.
Main problem is the whole two books at once thing, which was an accident I got myself into!
Right now I have two A4 notebook which I am carrying around - one for Moy Tura, and one for May Queen (it was meant to be for short stories but there you go). Hopefully, though being back at work means less time, it makes me more regimented so I feel I should write during the evening, rather than the time off pathetic display of "I'll just write a couple of... Oh look, Bones is on tv!"
Yes its all a bit of "ooo Shiney!" with me these days. I am easily distracted. Chronic tiredness does that to a body. And nothing induces chronic tiredness like two small people running your life.
So what do you think? (About the novels, the approach, the self-absorption etc.) not the chronic tiredness???
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