Have you ever written a scene, and almost as soon as it’s done, you realize you have to rewrite it?
That happened to me this week, while getting my 1,133 words in.
The scene I plotted out last week started well, but about a third of the way through I started hitting writer’s block. Like I was bored with the scene already, and wanted to move on.
I pushed myself to finish the draft out, just to have the scene done. So I could say I accomplished something that night.
But as soon as I woke up the next morning, I knew I needed to start over from scratch.
If writing the scene was boring for me, it’s going to be boring to read, too. And I could see exactly where I went wrong: I had the scene start after most of the danger was over, and the scene was the character piecing together what had happened after the fact.
Better to start with the character in danger, and worried for their safety. So they have to scramble to keep themselves alive, and figure out what’s going on.
It’ll have higher tension, be easier to write, and be a lot more fun to read.
I don’t want to rewrite the scene. But I’ll need to, if I’m going to keep some narrative momentum going.
What about you? Do problems with your scenes ever manifest as writer’s block?
