had great fun writing last night

DetAlexiaBates

Last night I wrote a scene where a character was doped on a morphine - it was fun to write! She was fascinated by the moon. It helped that I was full of sugar, so I didn't need to break my arm or something to get the pain management of morphine to find out.

dorothyd

sometimes writing is just wonderful, when it soars like that. Trouble is, cold light of day (or editorial comments!) often bring them down to earth. My duke's book I thought was clever, in that he ended each of his first person sections with
I do not know. I will not know.
Editor removed them all.

Stan2

Shoot the editor!! ;)

Claudia

It's great when you get to write a scene that's fun to write. I'm not a novelist, so I'm only speaking from my experiences with short fiction, but sometimes the one word challenge stories are incredibly good fun to write.

By the way, Alexia - have you looked at our monthly One Word Challenges? August is up - no entries yet, but do a Search and you'll find previous challenges to give you an idea what they're all about.

Helen

It's a great feeling when the words are flowing, I agree.

dorothyd

Stan, he was right! It was an affectation, the book was better without it. It really is a case of 'shooting your darlings' if you like something a lot, chances are it isn't good for the book. This wasn't. The duke conceded that.