Ok - So it's probably the most over used phrase known to a writer, but hey, its the truth and if it weren't then I'd probably would've thought of something clever and witty to say... but i didn't, because I can't...
The situation is as follows: Logged on this morning to find an email from HM&B requesting my full manuscript for the partial I sent which included some, but not a hell of a lot of revisions.
Yeah - happy dance and all that. I AM stoked, but as I read the revisions carefully, I panic. I have to REWRITE stuff, think of new scenes AND still polish nine chapters, two of which are incomplete...
I sit down and open a file that has not seen the light of day for a good six weeks and then... nothing, nada, zip.
Maybe a spot of surfing, checking my email, visiting face book might get me in the mood? Uh no, still not a single word... After a while it dawned on me...I officially have writer's block.
Sigh. Perhaps tomorrow might be easier?
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Give it a couple of days, Janette. Think about it, let the advice settle, let the excitement about the ms come back, and then tackle it.
ReplyDeleteWhat Jackie said! It's good advice :)
ReplyDelete((HUGS)) I'm also screaming for you Janette! That's fantastic news! What line is it for? Revisions can only be a good thing. They sound dead set serious. I envy you your revisions and your writer's block :D Lucky, luck, luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks lacey - its modern heat. My second sub and my first lot of revisions and my first request for a full... Just need to get past the first couple of chaps that the revisions pertain too and i'll be right...i think...
ReplyDeleteJanette - take a deep breath, let it all sink in, then get stuck right in.
ReplyDeleteFor me, writer's block happens whenever I get out of practice with writing. If I just write a little every day, even if it's awful, it starts to get easier - and one day I wake up and the writer's block is history.
Thanks Romy - I've taken to leaving the sticky scenes (ie the ones that are not working for me at the moment) and polishing the rest. Hopefully as I'm doing that - the rest will fall into place.
ReplyDeleteJanette, I think we all spend so much time trying to get Richmond to love us that when they really do it must be a shock! You need time to take it in and calm down, then the writing muse will be back. Have a freak out while polishing your work then the rest will fall into place, I'm sure of it! Congratulations on the great news.
ReplyDeleteThanks sally - although after reading through the whole thing... not sure they'll love it, but guess i'll just have to wait and see...
ReplyDeleteAh well now . . . I get writer's block every time I open the laptop. Long time back I came across this advice - "unshelf your favourite novel/story/article etc. Starting more or less anywhere, COPY IT OUT. After a couple hundred words or so, you will be thinking the story in new directions. You'll be unblocked" Hmmm . . . Let's see. From 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens . . .
ReplyDelete"Marley was dead . ." Well . . er . . suppose he wasn't dead! Suppose he was only pretending so as to scare Scrooge out of his nightshirt . . .
Now ladies . . . I think we're onto something!