writer's block or just exhausted...

[ostarella]

I have been working and reworking the first part of 9 FOREVER!!!!!  Seriously, I have started the thing at least five different times and each time I find myself putting in a new sentence that completely changes the direction it's going. The hell of it is, each direction is one that *could* work, but it's not where I want it to go. So I guess it's not writer's block as much as writer's overflow, if there is such a thing. Plus outside influences - I'm getting used to not working again, which means sleeping "normal" hours - and that ain't working. By 7:30 PM I was exhausted, so I went to bed - now it's 1:30 AM and I'm wide awake and wired. Then I switched from cigarettes to mini-cigars and the store where I get them was closed for New Year's Day and I ended up back on cigarettes - it's amazing the difference it makes. I bought 3 packs of cigars and they lasted me 10 days - I bought 3 packs of cigarettes and I'm on the third pack now (2 days later). Aaarrrggghhh.....

Anyway - I think my main problem is I don't have a handle on Dao Quy yet - I can't decide if she's a conniving bitch or a calculating survivor. I think I want the calculating survivor, because otherwise Peck is going to end up a real snot, and I don't want that. <sigh>

Oh! Back again (hour later) - found this site and it's great (maybe you've already seen it):
http://writeronline.com/

Takes some time to go through, but does it ever help - just answering the questions, regardless of final outcome, helps define the character you're thinking of.

Comments

[beckyblack]

Good site there, I'll check that out more thouroughly later, thanks.

Good luck with figuring out Chapter 9. I'm picturing you with your cigars. Now you just need the black leather gloves and a white safari jacket and you're sorted!

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

As long as Face is there to light my....well, anyway... ;-)

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Oh, re that site - I actually did a copy/paste for the questions and took out the A/B Yes/No answers. Then I redid the whole questionnaire for Doa Quy, answering the questions with text. That really took some thinking about her and who I saw her as being. But after I finished - I started in on 9 and I *know* what she's going to do and say and why. That updated file is staying on my hard drive for any major OC from now on.

[beckyblack]

That sounds good. Those character qustionnaires are great, even with characters you know well there's still be things that come up that make you think "I hadn't considered that about them before." :)