Step 27: To get over a speed bump, be lazy on purpose

I've said I don't believe in writer's block, at least for me, but I do believe in writer's...crawl.

From now on I'm putting the featured images up front, figure people don't have to scroll through and I like sharing my way too big desktop collection anyway. 

That's some dramatic shit. But lets like, make it more metaphorical and not about MMA training. Like hey, I've reached this point where writing is crawling. Also, the pain is mental. 

I've had periods recently where cranking out 200 ish words in 25 mins seemed incredibly difficult. Hell, even that amount in an hour. This is not much. I'm writing a true vomit draft, the prose is objectively terrible and unadorned, filled with cliches and repetitive dialogue. 

Which is fine, as long as I get the story down.

Then, later today, I got over a hump. I was stuck on a section I frankly did not want to write. It was dull as hell, a scene where one of the main characters goes to convince a drill sergeant that his pal can help their city with training techniques they learned from their own city-state, which is famed for its warriors. Just a bit of dialogue over something relatively banal that didn't have a whole lot at stake.

After getting away from the screen I figured, why not write it as briefly as possible? Gloss over the thing with a paragraph, no need for detailed dialogue. Do it as lazily as possible. I pictured the summarising sentence before getting back to the screen, that lazy sentence, which was rather comforting.

It got me over the hump. Over that dread, for writing that one scene- instead I made it as easy as possible to write, and the irony is that once I got started I *did* insert dialogue, and the scene got fleshed out just enough, without too much padding, and without any speed bumps.

Procrastination is usually about that very next step. 

So I wrote nearly 7k words today. A record day, word count wise, and enough to have negated the loss of work yesterday. Again, they aren't even remotely of quality. I'd say one in four paragraphs need a reasonable amount of editing, whilst the rest are practically skeletal. 

Getting over the hump was wonderful, or at least the writing afterwards was. It flowed. I went from doubting my existence to just doing the work. It was a viscerally satisfying and reminds me of why I want to write in the first place.