I've always been the kind of writer that just plows through it. If a scene is particularly tough I just do the best I can and muscle my way through it, even if it may take a few days to bang out a page and a half.
I know a lot of writers will often just skip over these problem areas and come back to them later. On my latest project I decided to give this a try. Every time I got to a scene I was having a big problem with, I'd simply write the slug and then a few action lines explaining the basics of what's supposed to happen in the scene. Then I'd move on to the next.
Great! This worked like gangbusters! I blasted through my first draft. Nothing left to do now but go back and write those scenes I skipped over. Easy, right?
Hell no! This royally sucks! Instead of powering through these scenes every so often as they came up, now I'm stuck with all of them together. The fun parts are in the rearview; the breezy scenes that wrote themselves. Now I've got all the heavy lifting clumped together. The ten or so hardest scenes staring me in the face, flipping me the bird. Just the thought of opening the FD file fills me abject horror.
This was a terrible mistake and I will never do it again. How do you scene skippers deal with this?
I know a lot of writers will often just skip over these problem areas and come back to them later. On my latest project I decided to give this a try. Every time I got to a scene I was having a big problem with, I'd simply write the slug and then a few action lines explaining the basics of what's supposed to happen in the scene. Then I'd move on to the next.
Great! This worked like gangbusters! I blasted through my first draft. Nothing left to do now but go back and write those scenes I skipped over. Easy, right?
Hell no! This royally sucks! Instead of powering through these scenes every so often as they came up, now I'm stuck with all of them together. The fun parts are in the rearview; the breezy scenes that wrote themselves. Now I've got all the heavy lifting clumped together. The ten or so hardest scenes staring me in the face, flipping me the bird. Just the thought of opening the FD file fills me abject horror.
This was a terrible mistake and I will never do it again. How do you scene skippers deal with this?
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