Woohoo I got my 100th followers thankyou so much to all of you who visit, like and comment. I still have some blogs to revisit and some to explore more fully I will get there I promise.
Tonight the house has been turned upside down by the new arrival Patch and I do have lots of pics I shall post soon. But for tonight it is the frustration of writing which is on my mind. Am a few chapters away from the end of the first draft of the novel and have hit a little wall. If I am honest it is the first one I have hit so I probably shouldn’t complain. Don;t get me wrong its not as if I don;t know where the story is going or anything like that it is just a few paragraphs I just don’t seem to be able to get to sound how I want. Three times I started wrote the first few paragraphs of the chapter in question then deleted them all. Then about a dozen times I wrote the first couple of lines and hit you guessed it the good old delete button.
I left it went off did other things went back to it repeated all the above steps. Finally I bit the bullet and wrote without hitting delete am still not happy with it but have decided to leave it till the next draft to worry about it and move on. I guess as i am new to the whole novel writing process I am asking for advice, is this normal? Will it all sort itself in the editing? What do you do when your muse has buggered off to the pub and left you home alone?
Paula Acton 
Got me…I know nothing about writing novels… But it sounds logical to me..
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If if is just an issue with you not being satisfied with the ‘quality’ of what you have written and not a plot issue then I’d say write something temporary even if you don’t like it. Kind of like a place holder you can elaborate on later. Write down the basics of what you want to say even if it doesn’t sound awesome. I have never had a real issue with this but it’s normal, especially when writing summaries about the past few days/months or your giving the description of a setting, something that needs to be said but is boring to write or hard to make sound interesting. Maybe you should post a version of it and we can help you decide where it needs improvement if any. I’m not an expert or anything but that is my advice.
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Yes it is one of those little time spanning moments I have basically done as you suggested put a few plot outlines points in there in red and moved past it for now and will go back to it later
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Congrats on the big 1-0-0! 😀
And as far as getting near the end of a novel only to freeze like a deer in headlights…I do that often…pretty much every book I’ve written. I don’t know if it’s “cold feet”, like I’ve had so much fun writing it that I just don’t want it to end, but I find the best thing to do is to walk away for bit. Take a few casual notes here and there, find a quiet “happy” place to play it out your head. And when you really feel ready, go for it. Just don’t beat yourself up over it or force yourself to finish it, because it will continue to not come out the way you want. Doing a full read through it may help too.
Good luck! Deep breath! Have the hubby give a foot rub or something. 😉
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mayb a full read through would be helpful I havent don one for a few chapters I had stopped doing it as I kept getting distracted by going back and changing this earlier that i could have very well left to the edit but maybe if I get someone to tie hands behind my back so I cant type only read it might work lol
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Hey Paula, sounds so annoying! What’s your book called again? I think I asked you before but I ant remember. Thanks!
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Its called Queen of Ages although that may change yet lol
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