Writing is like...
Apr. 11th, 2007 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsAside from the whole "writing is like prostitution" joke that I've been telling rather a lot lately, you know what writing has always been like for me?
Running a maze. You go tootling along for a while, smack into a wall, realize that you have to back up, hit another wall, back up more, take a whole different approach, and another one after that and hope that this one will get you where you're going.
Hopefully posting this won't jinx me, because I think I've finally flailed and whined my way onto the right path...
(Biggest irony? Next to *none* of the research I've done is going to make it in, because the exposition would drag the plot. ETA: in response to comments - I hope some research shines through, but it turns out I've been researching the wrong things...)
Running a maze. You go tootling along for a while, smack into a wall, realize that you have to back up, hit another wall, back up more, take a whole different approach, and another one after that and hope that this one will get you where you're going.
Hopefully posting this won't jinx me, because I think I've finally flailed and whined my way onto the right path...
(Biggest irony? Next to *none* of the research I've done is going to make it in, because the exposition would drag the plot. ETA: in response to comments - I hope some research shines through, but it turns out I've been researching the wrong things...)
