Ideas are Easy; Writing is Hard
Mar. 26th, 2016 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerStory ideas I have a plethora of. I can work out a story in my head and tinker with it until I am happy with it and then file it away until I need to write something.
I can do really good loglines and have written the TV guide equivalent for book catalogues and the like. I even did some under the table for people at Ballantine because I was that good at it.
But that’s the easy part for me.
The hard part is actually writing the story out of my head and onto paper or electrons or whatever.
I can do it. I have done it. I have been published.
Right now I am working on a Captain Nemo novel that takes place shortly after the events of 20,000 leagues under the sea. I have scrapped most of my manuscript twice now because I don’t like what I am writing. Again I have the idea and the outline but now I need to expand to a point where people will be satisfied with the final product.
I also have agreed to a short story in an anthology that I have given the logline for to the editor. They love it and have given the go ahead to write the story. I have an idea where it is going to go but I also have to do some serious research to make sure that I am “authentic” in what I am going to be writing even though I am in the realm of the historically inaccurate.
There are a couple of other projects I am noodling on as well.
Again all well and good but not the final product that I need to produce.
So I guess I’ll do what I have done before which is write my way to that one scene I have so clearing in my head and then write to the next one.
I am grateful for an ability to write well.
I can do really good loglines and have written the TV guide equivalent for book catalogues and the like. I even did some under the table for people at Ballantine because I was that good at it.
But that’s the easy part for me.
The hard part is actually writing the story out of my head and onto paper or electrons or whatever.
I can do it. I have done it. I have been published.
Right now I am working on a Captain Nemo novel that takes place shortly after the events of 20,000 leagues under the sea. I have scrapped most of my manuscript twice now because I don’t like what I am writing. Again I have the idea and the outline but now I need to expand to a point where people will be satisfied with the final product.
I also have agreed to a short story in an anthology that I have given the logline for to the editor. They love it and have given the go ahead to write the story. I have an idea where it is going to go but I also have to do some serious research to make sure that I am “authentic” in what I am going to be writing even though I am in the realm of the historically inaccurate.
There are a couple of other projects I am noodling on as well.
Again all well and good but not the final product that I need to produce.
So I guess I’ll do what I have done before which is write my way to that one scene I have so clearing in my head and then write to the next one.
I am grateful for an ability to write well.
