Wow, today was weird. The moment I opened my Scrivener document, I knew exactly what I wanted to write about, but as soon as I began actually writing it, the idea became all foggy… I tried to push through and I managed to get a few words down on the page, but honestly I don’t know how happy I am with them. I feel like the idea is there, but the words are “empty”.
In addition to that, I didn’t complete my full hour of daily writing. Today felt a little off, and it’s the first time in a long time that I wasn’t able to complete my minimum requirement of one hour of daily writing.
Maybe the fact that today is Saturday has something to do with it. My mind was split between writing and all the other things I planned to do this weekend.
I will try to get some more words down later in the day, in order to complete my hour, but I guess that it’s alright if every now and then I have a difficult writing day. The important thing is that I tried and I did write something, which is already a win for me. “Something” is always better than “nothing”.
On the writing side of things, I ended up making a list of key questions I want to ask myself about scenes that I write. I am thinking about making a few scene cards of what I have so far, answering all the questions for each scene, and putting them up on the wall so that I can have a visual board of how far the story has come.
The questions I decided on for each scene are:
- What happens?
- What do we learn or realize?
- What are the consequences?
- Why does it matter?
- How does it advance the plot?
- What happens next?