Figuring out where to start
Apr. 16th, 2003 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI sat down for my writing hour and was dry as a bone. Nothing. Nada.
Today, I was trying to think of exactly where to start the book from the point that Solveig is an adult--after the first chapter I've already written, where she's a child and falls through the ice. Beginnings are always tough. So where exactly do I start? I sat and thought about it, and couldn't frame a single sentence.
This is annoying, but I'm not panicking about it, because I KNOW from previous experience with my last two books that this question is always particularly troublesome. I think that figuring out the openings of my last two books took about a week, each time. And much flailing around.
Gotta dash to work.
Peg
Today, I was trying to think of exactly where to start the book from the point that Solveig is an adult--after the first chapter I've already written, where she's a child and falls through the ice. Beginnings are always tough. So where exactly do I start? I sat and thought about it, and couldn't frame a single sentence.
This is annoying, but I'm not panicking about it, because I KNOW from previous experience with my last two books that this question is always particularly troublesome. I think that figuring out the openings of my last two books took about a week, each time. And much flailing around.
Gotta dash to work.
Peg