On Writing & Storytelling: Today Was Not a Good Day to Write…

“Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Well, looks like tomorrow – a Saturday – I will likely be working on Reunion: Coda, even though it’s half of the weekend. Today was a “fizzle” as far as writing goes; as hard as I tried, I couldn’t come up with even one sentence for the next chapter in the manuscript.

I’m not sure what happened. Maybe I didn’t sleep enough last night. Maybe I should have gone out for a walk in the morning when it was still relatively cool. Maybe, just maybe, I could have brewed some coffee during the midday break and enjoyed at least two cups of joe.

Whatever the reason, today was not a good day on the writing front. And since I don’t want to spend the entire summer on a first draft manuscript, I will have to make up the “lost day” tomorrow.

Oof.

But, hey. At least Chapter Nine is – at least the first version of it – is done. That’s gotta count for something, right?

“There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Anyway, here’s hoping that tomorrow I will have a better day – for writing, and for everything else.