I have to admit that I've been a bit lax with my writing lately i.e. I haven't worked on it enough! That's mainly due to the fact that writing my novel is becoming a bit of a struggle. I pretty much know what I want to happen in it; it's just that when I'm writing I find that I inevitably embellish parts or change things that I had never considered changing. It seems to evolve of its own accord.
I find it very hard to stick rigidly to my initial plan and maybe that's a good thing. But it does mean possible rewrites - I recently inserted a whole new (long!) chapter - and that makes for a difficult time trying to get to grips with it and make progress. At the moment I'm finding it hard to make what I'm writing interesting as it's to do with my character going over her overdraft limit. The story, although third person narrative, is from her point of view so I'm describing her thoughts and feelings about what's happened, how she's going to deal with it etc.
I do wonder if lots of (maybe all??) writers struggle with something they've been writing for a while at some point and get a little bit tired of it all. I've been working on this novel since the beginning of the year; maybe for a lot of you that's not that long, but I guess for me it's about keeping the momentum going, keeping my interest in what I'm doing alive and that can be a challenge.
What are your thoughts? Let me know!
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