writing woes

[rivendellrose]

Someday? I really need to learn to properly write good action scenes. Somehow I always end up writing scenes with battles or what-have-you, and... I really pretty much just suck at them. It's kind of painful.

Under deadline and a little braindead today. Keep getting distracted trying to research, or trying to get the right word for something, or just plain (as right now) trying desperately to figure out how to write what's going on. I can see it in my head... it's just hard to find the right words for an actual battle, especially when my characters, bless them, are pretty much just looking on in horror.

For now.



Screw this shit. I may very well at this moment officially hate every word of this bloated, nearly 20,000 word piece of tripe. I am so very sorry to the friend who foolishly promised to edit it.

Comments

[nekokoban]

I can't really offer much help or advice with actions sequences (because I suck at those too, unless they're already kind of weird and choppy--kind of like the porn I write!), but I gotta say that it is pretty much exactly why I got a twitter: so I could liveblog my frustrations with things and not clutter my actual LJ about it. :|a

ALSO I got the link you sent, but I only got home like ten minutes ago, so I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. \o/ I WILL SOON!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah, I'm good as long as I can do a sort of free-form stream-of-consciousness poetry thing with it (ha, that sounds even weirder than I mean it, but I'm tiiiiired, so I hope you sort of understand). But actual regular "hello I am a book" kind of action? Ha. I wish.

This is why James Alan Gardner will forever be one of my heroes, because he's good at action, and I find that fascinating in a writer.

And yay! The vid is quite cute, and there others on the related thing, although I turned out to be wrong about it being all of the behind-the-scenes stuff, which is a pity. I still want to find those. No rush, though!

And twitter. Yes, maybe. I am starting to see how it could be useful....