Block and Roll

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I could blame the toothache, the jippy stomach, vodafone or the weather on my lack of progress writing. But I would be kidding all of us. I have Writers Block.

The ultimate disease for a writer; itchier and more irritating than Athletes Foot.

There I said it. I do not feel better for saying it aloud but it is now out there. I have admitted it.  Over the past 4 days I have managed 2316 words. 16 are usable.

I also discovered that I was projecting my mood onto my characters, which would fine if it was appropriate for the story but it was not.

For example, today:

  • In the middle of a perfectly good Tea Break in “A Hero Would be Nice” my character, a dragon, started questioning the validity of ‘Mondays’.

 

  • On Saturday, Pestilence was unhappy about the finale of Downton Abbey – the only issues being that his story is not set in a world that is showing Downton Abbey, nor has Pestilence ever shown any interest in Period Drama, Drama, TV, entertainment or Lady Edith’s love life.

 

  • On Sunday – Death refused to use a mobile phone because he hated Vodafone. (All of these paragraphs and sentences were, rightfully, deleted – but you get the idea).

I started looking at art and peoples’ doodles, works and short ramblings. That helped. It didn’t inspire anything (my brain knows what I have to write already – it just doesn’t know how to do it) but it did help clear my muddle of chaos slightly.

I watched Netflix – a critical mistake on my part. I watched a mind-numbing drama called 90210 – oh dear. Society…when did it come to this? >shakes head< Oh dear.

Made Mango tea with honey (to try and help my stomach) – It made no difference. (Wouldn’t it be amazing if it did cure Writers Block though? I would be a Millionaire by Tuesday).

I fear I will just have to let it pass.  And it will pass. Everything does eventually. It’ll be gone by tomorrow?…right?

Authors Notes

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My January Writing Notes (brace yourself):-

Only Writers spend their Sundays plotting a Murder without actually considering committing the crime.

Authors Notes: There are rules to every character & there is a journey. Whilst The path can vary & alter – Fate cannot be swerved.

There is always a price to using power but it’s usually a mental exhaustion that slightly alters behaviour.. causing mistakes

Authors Note: For a guy that claims he feels apathy for humans – he certainly goes to extraordinary lengths to save one.

Authors Notes: Everyone thinks Mal is acting strange because of PTSD. Mal thinks everyone else is acting strange because they’re assholes.

Death claims he cannot resurrect the dead yet revives the dog four times.

Authors Note: When one of the four dies – the entire planet screams and it’s the scream in book 2 that sets up book 3.

The lack of faith one character has in his brother turns out to be breathtaking and ultimately earth shattering

Authors: The hero can generate a protective barrier when stopping for tea but cannot do it at ANY other time.

Authors Note: The word ‘supernatural’ never appears in Concepts. But the phrase ‘Abundance of Weird’ or word ‘wonderment’ appears a lot.

Any character across all stories loses eye pigment when they use power. Only if they sleep/get knocked out does it return

#AHWBN – in outskirt town they use magic to ferment rocks into booze. A main character has a bad reaction & gets ‘stoned’

#AHWBN (A Hero Would Be Nice) Dragons blood looks exactly like normal blood except it tastes like lemonade.

Authors Notes: Trivia:- Concepts B (2) The B stands for Brave and represents the destination.

Authors Notes: If a main character tells any other other character to ‘duck’ – if they don’t, they die. Even if there’s Nothing There.

Authors Notes: The phrase “it’s for the kids” isn’t a reference to children. It’s about one characters dream of a farm & refers to goats

Authors Notes: in fantasy comedy-whenever the ‘heroes’ (very loose term) slip in phrase ‘it’s for the kids’ they are about to commit a crime*

“I am hiding Worlds”