seven

I've been struggling to write lately, so in the hope of brute-forcing my way through it, I intend to do a seven-week stretch of daily blogging taking me to the end of April. I am not expecting length or quality of myself, just words on a page to remind myself how words on a page work.

The fact that I haven't been able to write fiction for so long bothers me. All I managed last year was eight straight pages of incidental dialogue, and I had a similar problem the year before. My creative energy is all being channelled into increasingly stupid schemes, imagining a webcomic I have no way of actually drawing because I suck at it, and rewriting I Will Survive to be about whatever the last sentence someone just said to me was (I have landlord I Will Survive, ketchup I Will Survive, Satan's minions I Will Survive. It's getting really hard to do now that I've buried the actual lyrics under all my stupid rewritten versions). I want to have a story this year. Even if it's not all written down, even if the words I write don't quite add up to the story in my head, I want a story. I want characters and a plot and at least one page that doesn't make me want to break the nearest three objects with my head. So I hope that somewhere in the next seven weeks, I'm able to post something I made up. Two sentences, a paragraph, whatever. Just... something.

I will also probably invent some kind of ongoing project or series, in case I get stuck.