So I said that I’m writing a book, right? And, uh, since then… well, I haven’t written much. I’m about 2000 words in, and it’s mostly freewriting about the “world building” and characters.
This isn’t my first attempt (and hopefully not the last), but I’m encountering the same issue that I’ve encountered every previous time:
I know the gist of what the book is going to be about, but I’m having a lot of trouble “bringing it down” to the level of character motivation instead of “huge world conspiracy how will one person save the planet?!”
I’ve read enough books about writing to know that figuring out questions like these is part of the process, but man is it difficult. Like, if I’m the one making up everything about the story, why is it so hard to just “make stuff up”?
I know it’s because I have “corpo-brain”, but the best way I can describe it is that I’m experiencing “scope creep”. I’m trying to write a small story about a dude that’s trying to keep his shit together in a world that does everything it possibly can to scatter said shit all around, but the problems seems so huge. How is one person supposed to deal with all of it?
Obviously, I (aka IRL me) feel much the same way. How am I supposed to sit here and write my little book when there’s a war going on and work is hectic 100% of the time and there are so many different writing apps to experiment with!
But hey, nobody’s making me do this. This is an arbitrary and stupid goal that I made for myself, so… I guess I just keep going.
Sidenote
Eventually I will figure out how to remove these “book updates” from my main RSS feed, so uhm… if these annoy you (because they annoy me, but I have to share this with somebody), this won’t happen again.
Well, maybe a few more times, but by Book Update #4 you’ll definitely not see this in the main RSS feed.
Thanks for tuning in,
Toni