There’s A Story Inside Me…I Just Can’t Figure Out How To Tell It

I’m not usually one who gets crippled by writer’s block.  But when I first started writing Unlikely Venture, there were many times when I didn’t know where the story was headed.  I made a lot of notes but had no outlines or synopses prepared as reference.  I was always anxious to write because I wanted to find out what would happen next in the story.

The second time around, I find myself in a similar position.  Except now that I actually have the story for Nothing Ventured in my head, I just can’t get it out.  I’m choking on the words and when I finally cough them up, they’re flat.  There is so much to this story but it’s not shaping up the way I want.

So I returned to the outline concept.  It’s helpful but I still feel that I tell a more powerful story when it’s written off the cuff.  A guide is all fine and good but the writing flows when I don’t draw parameters around the chapters for what has to happen when and who needs to be involved.  New and different twists come into play when I just type.

Maybe I’m hitting a wall because I promised myself a break this weekend.  I hope so.  I don’t really want this to be a one-hit wonder.  =)