![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
musingaloudWhy is it that ideas that seem to be the best thing since toilet paper while still in the head (yeah, have a potty mind today, apparently), about half the time, turn into shit once they're put on paper? Or they may seem seamless, easy, until you start writing them out, and then the plot holes are so big, you really can't make your way around them. Why is that?
Case in point, a story that was really one of the most pre-plotted before writing that I've ever done. Had a few pages of summary of the story, some description written out, motives, backstory of the three main characters. Once I went to start writing it, WHOA! Sheez, that plot's not gonna work. Too much dialog. Too boring. My POV character is WAY too dumb and gullible. I struggled through it as a flash at Liberty Hall. Thankfully, the good people critting over there gave me a way out. Cause I was gonna slip in my own blood dripping from my worn-out fingers, trying to type my way out of the mess I got myself into.
Ditto, a few minutes ago, the "PERFECT" opening line of a story appeared. by the time I got to the computer, the exact wording was gone, but what I came up with, which may or may not have been the right words, stunk it up. Blah. Well, it seemed like a good idea t the time.
Case in point, a story that was really one of the most pre-plotted before writing that I've ever done. Had a few pages of summary of the story, some description written out, motives, backstory of the three main characters. Once I went to start writing it, WHOA! Sheez, that plot's not gonna work. Too much dialog. Too boring. My POV character is WAY too dumb and gullible. I struggled through it as a flash at Liberty Hall. Thankfully, the good people critting over there gave me a way out. Cause I was gonna slip in my own blood dripping from my worn-out fingers, trying to type my way out of the mess I got myself into.
Ditto, a few minutes ago, the "PERFECT" opening line of a story appeared. by the time I got to the computer, the exact wording was gone, but what I came up with, which may or may not have been the right words, stunk it up. Blah. Well, it seemed like a good idea t the time.
