But I did it tonight. And I know what can help with this in the future…
Two things helped:
1) I got out of my apartment to write. I actually went to a friend’s house, but I spent a good hour there just writing with minimal distractions (when the distractions came back, I wasn’t able to write anymore), and
2) I wrote immediately after I’d exercised. My mind was just surprisingly clear, and I finished a scene that I’d been really frustrated with in the last couple of days. So exercising really does help improve your writing–if you write immediately after you exercise.
I’ve noticed that I fluctuate a lot with this novel I’m writing. Sometimes I think it’s really cool and I want to finish it. Other times I think that my writing is just crap or that it’s not all that interesting. Usually I’m somewhere down the middle, but it does go up and down from time to time.
I can see the value in getting this book finished, though. And I totally will. I just need to figure out how to move the plot forward, because I just finished writing a really cool, action-filled part in the story, and I don’t know what should follow that. Oh, well–if I overwrite, I can finish it in the 2nd draft.
