It's One of THOSE Days

[amymyoung]

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I hate getting stuck on how to re-write something. I've been sitting for the past week trying to get beyond the light on the proverbial horizon (not joking, I had to rewrite a scene that had a light... on the horizon) and failing miserably.

It would go something like this...

 

*Write something that seemed entirely witty and great*

*Look at it, shake head and erase*

*Stare at screen, then original hard copy for a while, contemplating just shredding it all, then just off into space for a while*

*Write something*

 

Lather, rinse repeat on that for almost five days.

I'm not sure what broke the block on it, but damn it was frustrating to sit there and try to come up with twenty million ways to say "I saw a light on the horizon". I'm somewhat happy with the result, but I had to leave it be or I'd never get onto the bulk of the story. The protagonist hasn't even met the secondary protagonist yet, and I've spent a week on a fecking light.

Writing this was so much easier than rewriting. Writing is about getting it out of your head, rewriting is refining that into a polished, final product.