It's been twenty-five days since my last post here. I've been in kind of a slow period where I have lots of ideas but just can't seem to make them work on paper. I think part of the problem is that I visualize things in a kind of mental movie when I think about them, but I'm not very good at writing about what I "see". This has led me to start thinking about writing in a different way - maybe in the form of a script(s). I've always wanted to see a story of mine on the small screen. Fantasies of an epic mini series have turned it into something of a goal of mine. I've always thought that one of my stories would be turned into something like that; Now I wonder if I should just simply write the story as a script first.
I wonder if I'm taking the easy way out of my writing. I'm not really frustrated by my lack of progress. I really just don't have a lot of time to devote to the effort anymore and I don't have the money to stop working so damn hard to get more time to myself.
(I'd honestly devote more of that time to my wife anyway...)
Meh. This is the most I've typed all week.
1 comment:
Write it in a different tense?
Instead of: He walked into the bar and said: "Ow!"
Try: He walks into a bar and says: "Ow!"
I suggest reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. He uses that sort of tense pretty well. I've been giving it a shot and the results have been pretty good.
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