The beginning is the worst. The absolute worst.
THERE ARE SO MANY INSTANCES AND FIRST SCENES THAT I CAN USE, I DON'T KNOW WHICH! WAAAAAAH!
I know everything that's GOING TO happen! Not what's actually HAPPENING!
Help meeeeeeeee...Help meeeeeeeeeee...! I don't want to write what's going to happen later NOW, or else something won't MATCH! Or should I? AAAH!
WARNING: DEMENTED CASE OF SEVERE WRITING CONFUSIA. STAY AT YOUR OWN COST OF VERBAL SANITY.
I'm going to go and stuff my face with chips now, thanks.
The beginnings are always the hardest, but it's not going to get any easier. My advice? Just write something you like and that will work with the coming events. You can edit it later. Just keep going for now. Also, write out of order. I do that. It doesn't matter if something ends up not fitting. That's what revisions are for.
ReplyDeleteI would suggest writing whatever you have planned in the future then working up to the present! I can't remember when, but at some point Derek Landy said that he jumps around a lot. I bet you can do it really well! :D
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA! I'm sorry I laugh at your writerly pain, but your blog posts remind me of how I was when I first started writing about blogging.
ReplyDeleteDon't ever change your blogging style. Keep the tormented posts coming and we your fellow writers will be here to support you!
I too struggle with creating the here and now when it comes to scenes. Why do future scenes always seem so clear in my mind?
What I did to get past this recent debacle was to forget future scenes and add a twist the current scene I was writing. It worked and eventually I was able to make the writing flow back into the future scenes I'd brainstormed.