tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post1165464268592656858..comments2023-11-03T02:20:16.647-07:00Comments on Clockwork Storybook: The Well of Words and What to Do With ItBill Willinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977587767617018371noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post-79362501148108135842019-06-24T07:26:25.094-07:002019-06-24T07:26:25.094-07:00You have to give your business a face, to oblige a...You have to give your business a face, to oblige all the correct messages you need to express to clients and acquire more business. <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/haniazaidi/do-2-wow-logo-designs-with-free-mockup" rel="nofollow">logo design service</a><br />hania khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13852467938216390270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post-8933439071278149062009-12-10T14:40:05.598-08:002009-12-10T14:40:05.598-08:00I've got a bad, yet oh so handy excuse: "...I've got a bad, yet oh so handy excuse: "Well, I really should be concentrating on my day job, shouldn't I?" It's a pernicious form of procrastination.Jess Nevinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12663204658541841242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post-38953989182345135882009-12-09T19:38:38.119-08:002009-12-09T19:38:38.119-08:00My well is pretty dry now. But in my case, that m...My well is pretty dry now. But in my case, that means that I can ink or color the webcomic in my mental downtime. Reading helps some. I normally consume about 10 comics a week and I have been reading a load of prose lately. More on that in a moment.<br /><br />I have an OGN that needs a polish draft, a finished first issue of a crime comic that needs a pitch document, two novels that stalled in the middle, an idea for a detective novel, two pitches out there in somebody's inbox and some work on a game I need to finish. Unfortunately, I'm flailing away, high-centered like a turtle on a speed bump. For part of my problems and blockage, I blame Matt Sturges.<br /><br />I finished reading Midwinter yesterday and read Office of Shadow a month or so back. I said nice things about them on my facebook page. They are so good that they're making me rethink my approach to similar work. It's pissing me off. Much of my work feels flat to me like it is missing some umph, like in triumph. I suppose that after the first of the year, I'll buckle down, knock out a re-write and bang out some more prose pages. I need to kick it to the finish.<br /><br />I find that I write pretty quickly if I know that I'll get paid when I get finished. The common denominator for the above list of work is that the closest deadline is mid-February. Deadlines help. I finished the four scripts for the ***** mini-series in two weeks. Once I know how the story plays out, I can get to 'the end' pretty quickly.<br /><br />For me, GI Joe was right when he said the knowing is half of the battle.Bill WIlliamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153934685829061785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post-79682979402805262592009-12-09T14:42:52.149-08:002009-12-09T14:42:52.149-08:00When I'm dry, or logjammed, or otherwise block...When I'm dry, or logjammed, or otherwise blocked, a trick I've used is to start a "doesn't count" file. Open up a new Word document, and start talking to myself. Nothing I write will get used... until I stumble across some dialog, or an interesting idea, or something that prompts me to insert it in the current work in progress. <br /><br />I stole this trick from a creative writing professor, who actually used two typewriters -- one with "didn't count" blue paper, and one with the WIP.Daryl Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03796637154226779541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post-3590324033894044222009-12-09T13:52:39.663-08:002009-12-09T13:52:39.663-08:00Writing several things at once is a good way to fi...Writing several things at once is a good way to fill the well again, as Chris said. I also do what you do, which is read, but I go back and read my own work -- things published long ago, or at least not the previous issue of what I am working on. If that doesn't work I read the work of absolutely terrible writers (I won't name names, but I have a few emergency crap books ready to hand at all times). See, I'm not looking to get inspired, I'm looking to get either mad (How could that hack get published?) or cocky (At my worst I can write better than this!) and that usually brings the ideas flowing again, and the words with it.<br /><br />If I can change metaphors on you, it's not a dry well, it's a logjam, and to break those up one uses dynamite -- which I find comes from the anger at reading the crap-mongers.<br /><br />Then again, I could just have issues.Bill Willinghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977587767617018371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9144399331286018170.post-5245086176728079592009-12-09T13:12:45.216-08:002009-12-09T13:12:45.216-08:00My strategy is always to be working on several thi...My strategy is always to be working on several things at once, usually in different stages of development. So if I'm not quite feeling it (or if, as has been the case the last couple of days, I'm fuzzy-headed with a cold), I switch from writing to outlining, or from doing dialogue to blocking out a scene in another script. Switching to something else usually gets the juices flowing enough that I'm able to get back to the thing I was originally stuck on, and to get moving again.Chris Robersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04033873794552060524noreply@blogger.com