tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post113674221502373819..comments2023-08-12T02:33:29.988-05:00Comments on 2 B Read: Okay, Somebody Explain This To MeSylvia Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06489243230694413409noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136922969212680262006-01-10T14:56:00.000-05:002006-01-10T14:56:00.000-05:00I can offering you nothing but the satisfaction of...I can offering you nothing but the satisfaction of knowing you're not the only one currently struggling with an ending. I'm about 70 pages out, too, and can barely sleep for struggling to figure out what's once more turned into a very complicated plot. I even had a nightmare I was given birth to this creature who was ripping me apart while a furious, frustrated doctor screamed and raged at itColleen Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18398127184158098008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136913553575042252006-01-10T12:19:00.000-05:002006-01-10T12:19:00.000-05:00Thanks, Alfie!I do that (sort of) now. I read thr...Thanks, Alfie!<BR/><BR/>I do that (sort of) now. I read through the ending of the previous scene/chapter and then pick up the thread from there.<BR/><BR/>And Allison, I think your examples illustrate how every book is a little different. Some are harder, others easier. (Well, in theory, anyway. lol.)<BR/><BR/>Thanks, guys!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136901041707160372006-01-10T08:50:00.000-05:002006-01-10T08:50:00.000-05:00Hey Faye,Loved your post. Been there, done that. ...Hey Faye,<BR/><BR/>Loved your post. Been there, done that. Just in case it might help, I'll offer one of the Quick Tips from my book, Lights! Camera! Fiction: A Movie Lover's Guide to Writing A Novel.<BR/>When I'm having trouble getting started, I print out the last couple of pages I wrote and then delete them from the file. (The number of pages depends on the degree of difficulty I'm having Alfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556082619258664614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136869961058870952006-01-10T00:12:00.000-05:002006-01-10T00:12:00.000-05:00Very interesting how you all do it. Every book is ...Very interesting how you all do it. <BR/><BR/>Every book is different. THE PREY I started ages ago. It sat for 2 years. I picked it up, thought the premise was cool, and deleted everything after the first chapter (I had over 300 pages.) I wouldn't say the book wrote itself, but I didn't agonize over it.<BR/><BR/>THE HUNT I jammed for the first 210 pages . . . then I was stuck. For months. Had no Allison Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02872860080644987843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136851449792602242006-01-09T19:04:00.000-05:002006-01-09T19:04:00.000-05:00I'll jump in. Why do writers love to talk about th...I'll jump in. Why do writers love to talk about the agony of writing? It is agony--it's pulling teeth, it's sweating blood--almost all of the time.<BR/><BR/>I do have a techno-tip for avoiding that blank page. I use PowerWriter. You don't have to plunge right in to writing the actual scene, but can work on things like the list of what must be accomplished, how this scene is going to move things Teresa Bodwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10879370271292336388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136829847904610402006-01-09T13:04:00.000-05:002006-01-09T13:04:00.000-05:00Thanks, guys! I knew you would all understand.JoA...Thanks, guys! I knew you would all understand.<BR/><BR/>JoAnn, that is great advice you got from LH. She's right. We just gotta suck it up and write the damn thing. <BR/><BR/>And Sue-Ellen...um...did you realize one of your pseudonyms was getting snarky with you? LOL.<BR/><BR/>Hey, Christie! Glad to see you. And a warm welcome to milady insanity, too. (Love that name, btw!)<BR/><BR/>Okay,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136829611655062042006-01-09T13:00:00.000-05:002006-01-09T13:00:00.000-05:00Sue-Ellen,That's partly why I never break my books...Sue-Ellen,<BR/><BR/>That's partly why I never break my books into chapters until I'm finished. I couldn't do that in the olden days of smaller computer memories when files had to be saved in shorter bits. But now I just write and write (and edit and edit), then when I read the final hardcover print-out all in one -- or two -- sittings, I finally put in the chapter breaks. Which I'm now doing JoAnn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03351137721112499077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136821824040945122006-01-09T10:50:00.000-05:002006-01-09T10:50:00.000-05:00The books are ALWAYS hardest at the end. I call ...The books are <B>ALWAYS </B> hardest at the end. I call them "the book that will not end." (Like you, I know exactly what's going to happen much more than I did earlier in the process, but getting it from my head to the keyboard and onto paper is like slogging through jello.)<BR/><BR/> In fact, there are times when I'm so dreading getting to this point, my subconcious, who is a temperamental JoAnn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03351137721112499077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229339.post-1136821388074525622006-01-09T10:43:00.000-05:002006-01-09T10:43:00.000-05:00Okay, I'll admit that for me, the scenes do get ea...Okay, I'll admit that for me, the scenes do get easier to write as I come closer to the end. But the suckage factor varies from book to book. <BR/><BR/>CCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com