Why the struggle with writing?

How come it takes so long to get it done?

Because it’s not a straightforward process.

Put it this way, some days the words seem to fall on to the page and it just works great.  My imagination is working on all cylinders and everything seems to work just right.  The words come and life is good.

Then there are the other days.  The days where the words don’t come easily and it’s the hardest thing in the world to do.  It’s like bashing each individual word into the sentence with the big rubber mallet of my mind.  Or something.

Anyway, some days are easier than others, is what I’m saying.

That said, I’ve had a good day.

Good day?  Damn, I’ve had a good week!

Not generally good, but in terms of writing It’s been a success.  And for next week?  Who knows.  As long as I have more words by the end of next week than I have right now then things are going well…

I’ve been a bit on the depressed side recently and it’s had an effect on my writing. Work on Desert of Zin and Fracture has been mirroring my mood and it’s not happy reading.

Nevertheless I’ll keep it the way it is and only have a poke at it during the editing process, which is still a far way off.

While I give the main writing a week off, to recharge and regroup, I’ve a sub-project I’ll tinker with to keep in with the writing.

I’ve always loved working out back-story and fleshing out the single details that can lead somewhere else. Part of the reason why actual progress can be so slow…

So this week I’ll be working out some fragments, some “little people” ideas, the stories that feed into and out of the greater novels.

These are the fragments.

And the beauty of these smaller tales are that they’ll be finished faster and it’ll give me something to stick on the site as a warm up until I finish the novel.

Or that’s the plan…