TheokinsJ
Troubadour
I'm sure many of us know the feeling when we've sat down with a book in hand, busily turning the pages and all goes smoothly- then we stop. There's just something about a certain chapter or a certain scene that will get me as a reader stuck. I may have read a hundred pages of a book in two days, then I'll hit a chapter that seems to just not click, and I stop. I don't stop completely, I usually resume the book a couple of days later and then once I get to the end of said scene or chapter, all is well again and I start crunching through the pages again. I'm interested to know if, as a writer, do these chapters/scenes occur often?
I've recently started writing my own book, and six chapters in I find myself stuck on a particular scene that is 'boring' to write. It's not a lack of planning or lack of interest in the story- I love writing and up until this point I have been going at a good pace, writing stuff I feel is good quality for a first draft- I know what is supposed to happen in the scene and I know what happens after it, but it just doesn't work for me. I get this occasionally with my writing and it really is annoying when I've written two chapters in a week and I'm 'in the zone', then suddenly something like this comes along and completely stops my momentum- usually I won't write for days afterwards until finally I get up and decide to write the bloody thing, then once it's over, I steam through the rest of the chapters and continue as if nothing ever happened. Do any of you have these chapters that are challenging or boring to write, and how do you overcome these from setting you back and stoping your momentum and progress of writing the story?
I've recently started writing my own book, and six chapters in I find myself stuck on a particular scene that is 'boring' to write. It's not a lack of planning or lack of interest in the story- I love writing and up until this point I have been going at a good pace, writing stuff I feel is good quality for a first draft- I know what is supposed to happen in the scene and I know what happens after it, but it just doesn't work for me. I get this occasionally with my writing and it really is annoying when I've written two chapters in a week and I'm 'in the zone', then suddenly something like this comes along and completely stops my momentum- usually I won't write for days afterwards until finally I get up and decide to write the bloody thing, then once it's over, I steam through the rest of the chapters and continue as if nothing ever happened. Do any of you have these chapters that are challenging or boring to write, and how do you overcome these from setting you back and stoping your momentum and progress of writing the story?