Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 1:06:23 GMT -5
Writing each chapter of a book is a step towards the end of the work. But we also know that writer's block can strike at any point in a book. For me, in a certain sense, this block reached the 23rd chapter, that is, when I reached 56% of the story. Why do we get stuck at a chapter? In my science fiction novel, with each new "chapter" I have to change the protagonist, characters, setting, language, historical period, while still taking into account everything that has happened previously, because "everything is connected". But this has never been a problem: on the contrary, I liked starting a new chapter by catapulting myself into a world completely different from the previous one.
For each chapter I didn't write a real plot , but only a sentence that summarizes the events, which I then transform into a schedule of the various scenes. After writing the first 3 pages the Special Data block arrived. The lineup no longer convinced me. I noticed it when I couldn't connect the written piece with the subsequent events. I've tried a few approaches, but to no avail. And there were no ideas on how to change the setlist. When you miss a chapter… … because the power goes out. The writer's block that day was technological in nature. I had actually just started that chapter, I had written 4 or 5 pages. Suddenly the power goes out, the laptop turns off.
It comes back immediately, I turn it back on, I open OpenOffice Writer and something unusual happens: the program doesn't ask me to restore the file as always, but opens it directly. And what a great feeling to see my pages transformed into a series of ###s! No, I didn't censor a swear word: everything I had written had become a long series of #. I close the file, reopen it and again lines and lines of #, for the various pages I had written. I waste 2 hours searching online for how to recover that file, but there's no way. It got lost. I discovered, therefore, that the program was not set to create a backup of the various texts. Setting that I activated immediately. Luckily, even though I recommend the opposite, I continually read what I just wrote, so I had internalized several paragraphs.
For each chapter I didn't write a real plot , but only a sentence that summarizes the events, which I then transform into a schedule of the various scenes. After writing the first 3 pages the Special Data block arrived. The lineup no longer convinced me. I noticed it when I couldn't connect the written piece with the subsequent events. I've tried a few approaches, but to no avail. And there were no ideas on how to change the setlist. When you miss a chapter… … because the power goes out. The writer's block that day was technological in nature. I had actually just started that chapter, I had written 4 or 5 pages. Suddenly the power goes out, the laptop turns off.
It comes back immediately, I turn it back on, I open OpenOffice Writer and something unusual happens: the program doesn't ask me to restore the file as always, but opens it directly. And what a great feeling to see my pages transformed into a series of ###s! No, I didn't censor a swear word: everything I had written had become a long series of #. I close the file, reopen it and again lines and lines of #, for the various pages I had written. I waste 2 hours searching online for how to recover that file, but there's no way. It got lost. I discovered, therefore, that the program was not set to create a backup of the various texts. Setting that I activated immediately. Luckily, even though I recommend the opposite, I continually read what I just wrote, so I had internalized several paragraphs.