Captain's Log, stardate whatever the ten-fifty-thousandth time I've realized this:
If you are the kind of writer to whom, generally, 'the words' per se come well;
and you are having trouble with 'the words' -- they aren't coming;
there's a good chance the sentence/thought/beat you are writing is bullsh1t,
and the problem is therefore the words are sh1t too, or:
there just aren't any there. Cuz it's bullsh1t.
TBH I think that most people are 'the kind of writer to whom' &c.; i.e. that the flaw in the process that many people who think writing is 'hard' have run into is not that they're 'bad at writing' -- we're all pretty fluid at expressing ourselves through language, for the most part (see: the Internet).
It's the earlier stage of making sure you're saying something that's not nonsense/bullsh1t/a waste of everyone's time, including your own but especially the reader's.
Anyway: so much for that story beat. b-bye.
If you are the kind of writer to whom, generally, 'the words' per se come well;
and you are having trouble with 'the words' -- they aren't coming;
there's a good chance the sentence/thought/beat you are writing is bullsh1t,
and the problem is therefore the words are sh1t too, or:
there just aren't any there. Cuz it's bullsh1t.
TBH I think that most people are 'the kind of writer to whom' &c.; i.e. that the flaw in the process that many people who think writing is 'hard' have run into is not that they're 'bad at writing' -- we're all pretty fluid at expressing ourselves through language, for the most part (see: the Internet).
It's the earlier stage of making sure you're saying something that's not nonsense/bullsh1t/a waste of everyone's time, including your own but especially the reader's.
Anyway: so much for that story beat. b-bye.