Wednesday; the new novel...

[ozarque]

Everything has been going very well with the new novel [Alien Tongues] -- until now. But now I've hit an absolutely implacable Writer's Block. What's happened is that Briar, my linguist protagonist, has fallen in love with one of the Brethandis, and for some reason that's made me totally stuck. I can't figure out why, frankly. I'm used to writing

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[autopope]

This happens to me sometimes.

What triggers it (in my case) is my muse yanking on the handbrake and shouting "don't go down that dirt track! We will drive off a cliff and die horribly!"

My solution is to give it a couple of days to a couple of weeks to settle, then go back and review the previous couple of chapters and find out where I took the wrong turn.

Does this ring any bells ...?

[rabidsamfan]

Maybe you can take a few stabs at just how does one write romantic poetry in a language one is still learning, for a member of a culture which may or may not think the same sorts of things are romantic?

[patty1943]

Or write the last sentence of the scene and write it backwards. I am stuck right now too, but with me it is fear.

[idiotgrrl]

Or perhaps the Plot Fairy has handed you the main theme?

[sturgeonslawyer]

Try writing the second sentence. The first one will come eventually.