I've been really nervous the last day or so. Ditching a plan and deciding to wing it - AGAIN - suddenly seems like a really bad idea. But there's no going back. Whatever is going on will have to work itself out over the next thirty days, as I write. Or not. That might have to wait until editing. Doesn't matter.
So if I'm nervous, some of you must be panicking. Please, don't. Take a breathe. Write. If you don't know what to write about, invent a couple of characters - A BARBARIAN WARRIOR and a SLEEK ELVEN ARCHER (or equivalents appropriate to your genre) and put them in an odd situation. Perhaps the BARBARIAN mistakes the ELF for a woman and propositions him. If that isn't enough, send in a DWARF, who picks a fight with the ELF, only to have the BARBARIAN throw him out the window for harrassing the BARBARIAN'S girl. You see how this works?
It doesn't matter if whatever you are writing falls to pieces. The important thing is to be writing - we can always fix the pieces, later. We can't fix something that isn't there. Once you finish writing for the night, take a few minutes to think about what you want to cover tommorrow. That way, your unconcious mind can start putting ideas together over night.
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