The multiple ways a story can develop, form, and become written words on the page never ceases to amaze me. Sometimes I sit, and the writing is laborious. Each word is a struggle, sentences form with difficulty, thoughts are fragmented, and jumbled. But I continue because there are often golden nuggets in those disjointed ramblings. They only require a sane mind to rearrange and augment.
Then there are halcyon writing sessions, where words flow like water, time slows, and pages are filled with a minimum of perceived time and even less effort. We wish every writing session could be thus.
What tactics do you use on difficult writing days?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
I usually reserve those days for editing and/or reviewing. Nine times out of ten though, my creative brain will elbow its way in and insist I write something else…
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That is a great plan. I just hate not being able to do what I plan to do. Shifting into another activity can be cumbersome.
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I have become used to my plans being railroaded, so I just improvise!
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I have two types or I guess times of writing difficulty: when I don’t know what to write and when I hit a snag in reworking a part of something. I can simply keep writing in dealing with the first difficulty. What’s not right or fit I simply don’t have to use further. Dealing with the snag is often harder. I don’t want to rework something to death or keeping adding words until I don’t want to read it, let alone consider it for an audience. So I go back and forth, revising and then returning in my head to what I wanted to say in the first place. If that first place no longer works, then I start all over (no more revising).
Once again, my friend, you’ve asked a terrific question!
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You have just described the process I have been running into lately, with progress moving in fits and starts. I guess it is a good thing I have a lot to do, all those tasks give me plenty of choices and I am guaranteed to get something done.
I am delighted you enjoy the questions.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you for the reblog. ❤
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