Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Trouble with Writing

Here, encapsulated, is what it is like to write a book:

First you get the premise and you're all excited.

Until you realize you have no plot. So then you figure out the plot and you're doing well.

Until you're not sure what the twist is supposed to be.

And somewhere in there, you realize you've cranked out a really bad chapter or twelve that need massive revision and you still haven't written "the end."

Only this whole process takes weeks and months out of your life. So you're really hoping that when you do actually write "the end" you'll have something that you can hopefully edit into some sort of submission (for submission). Which may or may not be the case.

1 comment:

Casey Something said...

This is exactly what it's like. Does that give me a valid excuse for never actually reaching "the end?"

*Sigh*