Frustrations

I’ve just understood why, without me noticing it at first, my writing has somewhat slowed down - and by this, I don’t mean the problems with my dead hard drive, but something more general, with different roots.

I’m currently stuck at a scene I absolutely hate, yet a scene that is essential to the story. The one where my two groups of characters meet, and realize they come from different places, places that shouldn’t be in contact with each other to start with, places about which each involved party has its own beliefs/ideas/legends. It IS an important scene, one that has to happen at some point, since this little bunch of characters wear signs of not originating from the same continent, and it would be totally out of character for them to not ask at least a few questions. On the other hand, my attempts at writing it have, so far, all been pretty dull.

I could distillate the information in-between action scenes, but I’m wary of burdening the reader under too much action, under combat chained to pursuit chained to combat, or anything close to that. I could write your average sit-around-the-campfire evening and have the characters honestly answer to each other’s questions, yet this is a) too much exposition all at once, b) revelations that are spoon-fed too early and too fast to the reader. I’m pondering trying a mix of both methods - a beginning of discussion, followed by an interruption, from which other relationships/a spark of trust could emerge.

In a way, I’m even glad that I’ve ran into this problem: I know that when I manage to overcome it (because I WILL overcome it, I’m not giving up!), I’ll get out of it with a new experience under my belt, and a very valuable one at that.

Right now, though, I’m just at a loss about how to make all of this interesting. * cringes *

Niltoy | scene | writing

News From The Writer

No no no, I’m not dead! It’s just been not that exciting to keep several blogs updated in the past months, especially as I was doing mucho rewriting and editing, and as such there wasn’t anything new under the sun, as we say here. However, I’m not gone, and if time allows it, I’ll be back into NaNoWriMo as well this year!

First, here’s some of the reasons why I’ve been away for so long, and an insight on what’s going to happen in the next months/years.

Second, here’s what happened recently, and completely crushed my attempts at writing, due to not being exactly thrilled about the “event”. As of today, I’m starting to recover some of the files, and I could already lay my hands (totally by chance, hahaha) on some of my old versions of the Wall of Silence (formerly called Lord of Mirrors). This is some comfort, and I’m feeling the juice come back slowly, after these weeks of anguished waiting.

As for NaNoWriMo, I’m not sure yet of what I’ll do. I nevertheless want to try again, and in English as well, if only because it’d make excellent practice for college and for my exams. That’s the really good side with this kind of studies, really - anything that makes me practice English is good!

Oh, and as a slight update on WoS: I’m 35.000+ words into it (close to 40k, in fact, but I can’t remember off the top of my head right now). That’s not bad, and now that I’ve gone on with the plan and with (yet again) new ideas, I should be able to write more and faster.

As you can see, I’m not giving up on Niltoy & Co, but I seriously have problems keeping up with forums and the likes, so please don’t mind me if I don’t visit there during extended periods of time… *sigh*

Niltoy | update | writing