Humpfff...

[wornoutkeyboard]

I've hit that horrendous 1/2 way point in my novel and things are at a very "transitory" point where everything is shifting around so that they can "move up a notch" in pace leading up to the climax.

However...unlike sex...I always find it difficult to weather this part of writing. I have established my characters... I have stablished plot credibility....and now for the big sha-bang.

And in the immortal words of Scottie...

I caaanat do it cap'n.

I mean... I can.... but I am getting that horrible anxiety thing where you get to a point you know is going to be difficult and you just dry up like a prom queen whose boyfriend aimed too low.

I just need to get over the major "transition hump" and I'll be able to finish the book based on the momentum of the storyline alone.

*whine*...

But it's just one hump I don't wanna take part in.

*whine*


Ok, I'll shut up and get back to writing now.

~WOK

 

[oggbashan]

There are threads in NaNoWriMo about the phenomenon that occurs halfway there.

I think I've passed it now but for a few hours I was stuck without inspiration just saying to myself "Why, O Why did I start this?".

Keep going. You'll get there.

Og

 

[raphy]

Haha, poor WOK.. I share your pain. I'm fighting my way through that point right now, at a little over 40k words.. I *think* I'm mostly done with it and I can get to the really exciting stuff at the end now...

I just hope that with the plot, as in life, I don't peak too early

 

[Icingsugar]

Well, Iäm at the other end of the scale. I have my hi-energy climax all sorted out (maybe a total of 2k more to write and it's done.) Now I have to go back and see how the hell I'm going to make the story escalate into where it ends.

So far I can't figure it out... It's like two different worlds, the introduction and the showdown, and I can't seem to link them together...

/Ice - closing in on 50k, but no story...

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

Ice-

I feel ya, honey. I am one of those people who have a really difficult time "ending" a story. Once I get over the transition and I get to the build up and climax I am great. But once the climax is over, I never know how to end things. Even if I sorted them out in advance. I have had several projects that I didn't even write an ending to until I did the first edit (I usually wait 1 month before doing the first edito on fiction works)...and by then letting my brain get a rest usually does a world of good.

Oh dear lord... I better go write some more. Call the police if I don't surface in a few hours.

~WOK

 

[Dirty Slut]

This might help a bit...

When I write a book, I inevitably come to the middle wall. So to take my mind off of it I think of how I might end it, and start a whole new document entitled, "The Ends," where I write four or five different endings to the book. From there I pick the one I consider the best, and the worst ending chapters, and wonder if the book thus far will work for both, or neither thus far. The worst ending has to be totally rediculous, or I've done something wrong. The best has to tie up ever loose knot in the book, or else I'm screwed with what I've written already. Of the middle three, one has to be a tear jerker, one has to be a comedy, and one has to be a mix of horror, and mystery. Which means that two of the five stories have to be very close to be the proper winner, right?

DS