What is it like to be a writer?
I’m sure writers all go through the same thing. Staring at one word in one sentence to see it if fits.
Reading the story over and over again to see if it flows.
And you know it’s good if you’re not sick of it by the eighth read through.
I think everyone thinks writing is like the intro to “Murder She Wrote” – Angela landsbury writing happily on a typewriter in a steady flow of words.
It’s like that a lot.
There’s the other days you don’t see where you read read read read… start typing.
Or you open the program and fidget fidget fidget google something, because it’s not there.
There are the days I’m so tired that I can’t put anything past the word “the…”
I KNOW I need to write X number of words. I KNOW I need to write this scene. I know what the scene starting point is, what the goals are, what the stakes are, blah blah blah.
Nothing.
It happens. Those are the cooking days. Your brain is tired, and it usually means you’ve been thinking your story to death, and it means the breakthrough is coming.
But it also means long periods of staring at a computer screen, and patiently waiting Scrivener.
So it’s not always cheerful piano music and rapid typing with a smile.
