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Post by moonmomma on Feb 17, 2010 23:25:01 GMT -5
I'm finally at the Big Magic Scene (though there's still a few chapters of story left). Everything's coming together and making sense more easily than I thought it would. So why do I feel like I'm dragging it out word by laborious word? Argg!
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Post by booklion on Feb 18, 2010 18:32:38 GMT -5
Moon Momma, you want to know what I've done when I've been stuck? I've gotten myself into a quiet, meditative state. Then I imagine going into the Universal Library that has all books from past, present, and future in it. I go to the shelf that has my books, take down the one I'm working on, and imagine opening the book to that page where I'm stuck. I'll look at the page, and then I know what comes next and I'm writing furiously again. You just have to take the time to imagine all the details of the Universal Library very clearly...what it looks like when you walk in (I go to a reading room with oriental carpets and a fireplace burning, with leather armchairs), what the Librarian is like, if there is one. Where your shelf is, how your books are bound, what the paper feels like in your hands...the more thoroughly you imagine it, the more effective the exercise is.
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Post by moonmomma on Feb 18, 2010 18:45:14 GMT -5
That's a great idea, booklion - visualizing like that. I feel like the book I'm wriitng already exists, I'm just trying to capture it in words. If I can visualize it on a page already, maybe that'll help make the transition from this ethereal thing in my head to actual words.
I got the scene written, but I feel like there's a lot missing from it. I'll go back over it and see if I can visualize what's missing. (I'm kind of doing some basic revising as I write the first draft; once I've done my daily word goal I work on revisions I've thought of.)
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