That about sums up my writing experience right now. I’m totally blaming it on the Mercury Retrograde, which thankfully ends on the first of February.
I’m crawling through the second half of my current WIP, Affair By Sonata. Funny (and coincidental) since it’s about an un-inspired, down on his luck, gonna kill the last of his reputation if he can’t pull his shit together composer. I’m not stuck (thank someone above) but it’s slow. So slow, I’m beginning to fear I’ll never actually reach the end. Which is silly. I know I will it’s just a matter of time. A. Lot. Of. Time!
And let me have a mini rant. I know the next two books I’m writing, and I’m anxious to get to them already (both historical, both Victorian Gothics). But here I am trying to convince Thaddeus to let go of Rosa so I can pitch him down a deep, dark hole to help them come together for their HEA. What would a romance be without black moment upon black moment!
You ever feel like a project is going to be never-ending? Anyone else feeling the retrograde? My whole life (writing, work, everything) is traveling at hyper-speed mock two. No word of a lie…
I’m crawling through the second half of my current WIP, Affair By Sonata. Funny (and coincidental) since it’s about an un-inspired, down on his luck, gonna kill the last of his reputation if he can’t pull his shit together composer. I’m not stuck (thank someone above) but it’s slow. So slow, I’m beginning to fear I’ll never actually reach the end. Which is silly. I know I will it’s just a matter of time. A. Lot. Of. Time!
And let me have a mini rant. I know the next two books I’m writing, and I’m anxious to get to them already (both historical, both Victorian Gothics). But here I am trying to convince Thaddeus to let go of Rosa so I can pitch him down a deep, dark hole to help them come together for their HEA. What would a romance be without black moment upon black moment!
You ever feel like a project is going to be never-ending? Anyone else feeling the retrograde? My whole life (writing, work, everything) is traveling at hyper-speed mock two. No word of a lie…
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Yes, I totally feel as if this is the never-ending book. It's totally this retrograde stuff going on; at least this one's relatively short. Can you imagine if it was longer? Ugh.
It's definitely plodding through the WIP for me, but thank goodness the muck is almost done. All of us will get there, and I know ABS will start writing faster for you. But, if it doesn't, at least the hope will be that less edits for you in the long run.
And I don't know if you need to have black moment upon black moment. There's other type of plot structures; this novel might be the type where it builds and builds and builds to the big black moment and then bam, fallout. Whatever happens in ABS, I'm sure will great in the final product.
Slow as molasses lately---I didn't know I could blame it on the stars. I'm smack in the middle too and having difficulty lighting the fire. Off to rub some sticks together...
I love black upon the black. I love to make my characters work for their HEA. You know me Ely. I can't let it end until I know they've suffered enough to deserve it. So it's true, you don't need black upon black, I just like to torment them. :)
Maggie, of course you can blame it on the stars. Mercury slows things down. It's always fun to put the blame on something :)
Oh thank God!!!!! A reason I too have been a writing slug. I was beginning to think I'd lost my muse. The only thing keeping me sane was that my crit partner was experiencing the same dry spell. And now I found others!!! My sanity is saved.
Joanna,
I am glad to have enlightened the artistic world. I hate Mercury retrogrades. The last one was in September... it had the same effect on me and at least one my crit partners.
Oh, yeah!! I always feel like I'm writing the never-ending book. It's the rewrites that make everything feel like slow motion for me.
And, Tiffany, go you for taking the old 'killing your darlings' idea to a whole new level!
That retrograde is seriously messing with me. Work, school, personal. All out of control. So freaking annoying. And you already know I'm writing the never ending WIP. LOL!
I kid! It'll be done this year. I'm feeling more and more confident in that fact. Kind of. :)
Throw him in the hole Tiff. Pull that Gerry Butler move in 300 and kick his ass in if you have to. LOL!
I'm not killing my darlings per se. Just messing with there heats real good :)
And, Ter, you are right, Thaddeus is too much a pacifist to fight back. He'd fall. lol!
Is that what's going on? I've been feeling like I just can't get really going, like it's pulling teeth to rip this stuff out of me. I'm blaming the retrograde anyway. Better that than blaming myself. :)
I'm sorry you're having a hard time, dear. Hang in there. When's this retrograde over?
YES! I'm so glad I can blame the Retrograde for this "going so slow I might as well be going backwards" place I'm in. (Just how long has this Retrograde been anyway? A few months, perhaps?)
(I like black moment upon black moment...with some inappropriate humor thrown in...)
I just looked it up! Mercury turns direct this weekend. Thank goodness. We'll be back on track soon, apparently. Then we've got until the beginning of May to get our poop in a group.
Hyper speed Mock two? and your slowing down?
I think your in a black hole baby, You may see time running backwards soon. And there's no escape from a black hole...not into this part of the galaxy anyway.
This is what you get for meddling with the stars! *grin*
Lets hope Mercury gets back on course soon!
And here I thought it a clever oxymoron, Q! It's the stars screwing me up!
I wish I could blame the stars for my slowness. But I fear in my case, as Cassius said, "The fault lies not in [my] stars but in [myself]." My time management has improved, but I have a lot of time to make up for.
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