That steady thumping sound is my head hitting the keyboard.

[taste_is_sweet]

You know you've had a sucky writing day when...

1) Even before you open the document on your computer, you realize that you're going to have to research something you thought up until that second that you already knew.

2) After spending most of the day on research instead of writing, you find out that in order to make the novel remotely plausible you a) actually need to move the hero to a different location and b) actually need to set the entire novel in a different year.

3) While going back over the novel to correct the place and time, you discover that you've unintentionally stricken the hero with cognitive dissonance of epic and ridiculous proportions. This, of course, is not the problem you want the character to have. And naturally, fixing it requires going back through three chapters, then eight more to make sure you haven't missed anything.

4) And then you can finally get to work, in the last half-hour of the day before you have to stop writing to start dinner and fetch the kid, only to realize that now you can't remember exactly what you planed to add next anymore. Not that you have time.

::sigh::

Comments

[illariy.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, it really piled up on you! Hope today goes at least a little bit better.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It did! A little. :)

[squeakyoflight.livejournal.com]

I laughed so much at this entry!

That sounds like a perfect storm of a bad fic day, and I appreciate you sharing it with such good humour.

I say screw it. He's now a Coast Guard pilot post-hurricane Katarina (lost swimmer! lost swimmer!) Very dramatic, but easy!American setting! Just watch 'the Guardian' to pick up what I'm laying down, sista!

EIGHT MINUTES TO BINGO!!!

Love

Squeaky

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

LOL

And, :P

Just remind me with my next novel to make everything the fuck up.

[mckaysmonkey.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

Tell yourself that you found the mistake, fixed it and now it's a better story, so you didn't waste the whole day.

Then go and treat yourself to your favorite comfort food/TV until you feel happy :-)

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) It was worthwhile, but trying to find the info was so frustrating. And it just kept being that way for the rest of the week. D: I barely wrote 500 words in three days. But today was better. Hopefully the rest of the week will be too!

[natsuko1978.livejournal.com]

This is why I stick to fantasy (and historicals). At least when it comes to original fic.

::HUGS:: Sorry you had a crappy day, but as the above commentator said, the novel will be better for it. It's not a totally wasted day.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D I certainly hope so!

And yes, I'm looking forward to writing something after this that won't require any research whatsoever. Unfortunately even the help_japan auction fic is going to require research. But pure fantasy after that! I think!