Zero Angel
Auror
Has anyone had this happen to them?
That is, the existence of a particular scene, unfinished or finished, that completely derailed your entire writing process.
This happened to me in my latest novella (and spawned a 3-month delay!!). The scene had been in the set-up from the beginning, it fit, it was not overdone or done just because, it was appropriate for the characters and the story, but writing it spawned endless delays and procrastinations, and as soon as I finished the last sentence of the scene I fled from writing anything else in the novella for weeks on end.
I cannot describe to you how queer I feel over this, as I usually am not affected like this by, well, anything. But here it is. I am only now getting to the point where I am beginning to re-approach the novella, luckily I had already advanced through several drafts of the rest of it before finishing this scene, so the endless delays of publication are approaching their end.
Has this happened to you? What did you do besides jump back on the horse?
That is, the existence of a particular scene, unfinished or finished, that completely derailed your entire writing process.
This happened to me in my latest novella (and spawned a 3-month delay!!). The scene had been in the set-up from the beginning, it fit, it was not overdone or done just because, it was appropriate for the characters and the story, but writing it spawned endless delays and procrastinations, and as soon as I finished the last sentence of the scene I fled from writing anything else in the novella for weeks on end.
I cannot describe to you how queer I feel over this, as I usually am not affected like this by, well, anything. But here it is. I am only now getting to the point where I am beginning to re-approach the novella, luckily I had already advanced through several drafts of the rest of it before finishing this scene, so the endless delays of publication are approaching their end.
Has this happened to you? What did you do besides jump back on the horse?