Writer's Block Daily

Yeah, I would be wondering how the heck a soundtrack for a book could work considering people read at different speeds. Also I just plain don't like to listen to music when I'm reading. When I'm doing anything else it's another story, but I prefer silence for reading.

I prefer character songs*

as a opposed to an outright soundtrack.

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Anyone else have difficulty judging subtlety? Don't want to lay a characters emotions and feelings on with a trowel, but worried the clues to motivation will be missed!

Do the job in front of you.

Well, subtlety tends to be subjective.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

Random comment: if I've succeeded in my goals, anybody unfamiliar with science fiction terminology will, upon reading the section I'm currently writing, leave with the impression that the word "Terran" refers to some sort of deeply horrifying and utterly alien breed of Humanoid Abominations. Because as far as my poor narrator is concerned, that's exactly what they are. Good times, good times.

edited 8th Apr '13 6:42:04 PM by KillerClowns

I sometimes feel like I am at once too obvious and too subtle. It is most confusing.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

I kind of feel like my WIP is an ode to fucking subtlety.

This is not a bad thing.

Nous restons ici.

What Night said.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

It's not even a bad thing either way that can be interpreted.

Nous restons ici.

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes the way I parse things makes no fucking sense.

Also, I think I might be using the 7-point structure pretty exactly in this story :/

edited 10th Apr '13 2:50:34 AM by ohsointocats

I've decided not to share anymore twists in my story.

Not just because it ruins the surprise if I do finally share my story with you all, but because some of twists I have I either haven't written down or unsure I'm even going to have in my story.

Yeah.

edited 10th Apr '13 2:33:42 PM by Masterofchaos

I was hoping to avoid this, but I've just gotten too busy, so for the next month or so, I'm going to be absent from TV Tropes.

Good luck in meatspace outside TV Tropes!

Now, I'll like to introduce another topic: sleep. How do you approach it? For me, I'm trying to get pass that urge to want to get back into bed after waking up, because science has shown that the snooze button just makes you groggier. Tomorrow, I'm going to wake up at 5:45 am, get straight on my laptop, and work through the tiredness. Ideally, I'll get some writing done before school, like I used to be able to do.

Pressing the snooze button makes you more tired? Shit, thing to keep in mind.

If I try going to bed too early I end up sitting in bed trying to fall asleep for hours. So now I take my Itouch to bed with me and browse on the internet or write until I actually fall asleep.

Yeah. Most of my writing is done in the early hours of the morning while I'm trying to fall alseep. That might explain a lot.

How do people avoid the show vs tell problem?

The road goes ever on. -Tolkien

Here's one video on the snooze button and sleep cycles:

Meh. It's great if you can actually do that, but I frequently don't actually wake up until the second time the alarm goes off, so I really do have to build in time for snoozing.

What I find can sometimes help to a degree is setting two alarms, the second only a short time after the first, such that going back to sleep would be pointless.

Of course, one could always just turn the second off when turning off the first, but that likely takes more than a single button-press and may itself help to wake you up.

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@nrjxll: Good luck and godspeed, friend.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

I actually followed that videos advice this morning, I have to admit I do feel better, more energetic and focused. I breezed through my my social networks, read a few articles and even started writing in under an hour. Granted I might just be having an energized morning too.

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This site might just help me out of my rut regarding colourful writing.

http://descriptivewords.org/

edited 11th Apr '13 12:29:25 PM by Nitro836

A lot of the times I'll wake up twenty minutes or so earlier than my alarm in horrified anticipation.

I do that whenever I have to wake up earlier than usual for some sort of out-of-the-ordinary event. My subconscious gets ahead of me, I suppose. Anxious chap.

"And every life is a special story of its own." —The Stargazer, Mass Effect 3

Great that the video helped you! Let's hope it wasn't just a lucky morning.

For me, one of my great difficulties is waking up, and feeling unsure about whatever I got enough sleep or not. It's irrational, since a few more minutes wouldn't help me much anyways. Yet, I only sleep about 5-6 hours each night, if not a little less. I feel fine, and I probably only need that much sleep, but that doesn't keep me from feeling paranoid first thing in the morning, when I'm just tired enough to want to hit the pillow just a little more...

(Plus, there are times when I wake up at 4:40...after going at bed at about 11:00 and staying awake for at least an hour. I'm fine during the day, but my sleeping habits are weird.)

Try changing up your alarm clock and see what happens.

edited 11th Apr '13 2:19:37 PM by chihuahua0