Update for Crash Down · 10:43pm Jan 25th, 2015
I know a lot of people are waiting for the new chapter to be released. I just want to do a little status update here to let people know where it stands in the grand scheme of things. You will unfortunately have to wait just a little bit longer.
I've been going through a lot of stuff lately, and I am not even sure how to handle it, honestly. My work life has become really stressful recently, and when I get home at night I feel absolutely drained. Sometimes I will open the chapter work file, whish is still sitting at just around 4,000 words, and stare at it. I know there's another section I need to write, and I also know I need to wrap up the section that takes up the majority of the chapter's words. I know the how, I know exactly how the story goes in this chapter, I just can't find the energy to get it typed out for some reason.
It's not exactly writer's block. I mean, writer's block is usually that you can't think of what to write. This is different. It's that I don't want to write. I almost feel a bit depressed, though I can't imagine why.
Tonight I will make a concentrated effort, though. I'll pop that file open, and I will write the Cloudsdale scene. Maybe that will help me recapture the spark.
Failing that, I may write some scenes I have already planned out from later chapters and see if that relights my fire.
Either way, I just have to do it. Just gotta buckle down and do it!
Be careful you want writing to be a positive experience. You don't want to have writing be the thing that makes you stressed.
Hopefully things will get better for you.
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Heh, writing is anything but stressful. It does take mental concentration, though, and I feel like I am lacking that this past month.
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Good I was worried that if you tried to force the writing that it may make the writing stressful.
I was about to send to a message to see if you are alright when I saw this blogpost.
I completely understand what you feel. Heck, the reason why I don't write anymore is the same reason. Writing takes too much mental concentration to be able to do it after work. And on the weekends... well... so much stuff to do, like going to my local MLP CCG playgroup and have fun the whole day.
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Yeah but really, I am just screwing around doing other stuff.
It's given me a lot of time to think about what to write, though.
So far the chapter has gone through 10+ mental revisions on little aspects. I came up with a BRILLIANT idea that will affect the whole book slightly, too. For the better.
I am not lying when I say expect it soon, and I think once I have this one out of the way, I can move on much faster. This chapter feels very light and boring to me, I think that's the problem. There's no HUGE conflict in this chapter, that starts a bit later.