Jun 18 2009
Risky Business
I refuse to let my book fizzle out. Again. I’ve been trying to write this book since 2002, and it’s going to f-ing get written. Nothing is going to stop me this time. Not writer’s block, not a new book itching to be written, and definetly not plain laziness. Hear that, writing gods? I will not be squashed this time!
Here are my plans…. muahahaha!
Plan A
My book is about an Anthropology of Religion student, who is obsessed with debunking catholicism. So, since I’ve never been a catholic, and only went to one or two masses, I need to do some research. The passt few days I’ve been hitting the library and going through different books about catholicism. No serious research yet, but I think it’s progress. Knowing more about catholicism will help me write the character. She grew up Catholic, and hates everything to do with it. She’s not growing from love, let us say. And in order to debunk catholicism, this girl is digging up all she can on the origins and history of Peter’s Church.
Plan A.2
The next thing that’s going to happen in the book is she’s mixing aliens with catholicism. This means that I need to research aliens further. Over the course of my life, I’ve had bouts of curiosity about aliens and UFOs. When I say curiosity, I mean a burning desire to know more. And so I have accumulated quite a few books on the subject, and I watch documentaries from time to time. But in order to get the book written well, I want my head wrapped around aliens like my legs would be around Robert Pattinson. ;) More library time.
Plan B
I’m going to try something that I’ve rejected as tool for these ten long years of my writing career- writing the end first. What a concept! I hate it when people skip to the end before they read the book, it’s such a cheat. And in the same realm, I never wanted to know EXACTLY what would happen at the end of a book I was writing till I got there. I like to keep myself as interested and curious as possible. Well that might have worked for those crap books I wrote in junior hish and highschool, but I don’t have the kind of time and patience I had in those days.
Besides, my last bought of writer’s block was defeated by me skipping ahead a few chapters and working backwards. Suppose it works the same when I skip to the end of the book, and have to figure out what’s happened up until then.
Wish me luck!
I have been having the same problems, pal!
Anywho, I have tried the skipping ahead and writing, and even the writing the ending technique…either does not help much, or I need to lock myself in an isolated cabin for a week and focus on writing - JUST WRITING.
Good luck with the book!
drewcaine
Have you thought about talking to a priest? It’s pretty much their job to talk to people. if you find your Catholic friends (assuming you know some) and ask them if their priest is super educated on doctrine, you can go chat with one who is. Just because it is for a novel doesn’t mean you don’t want to know about the religion (at least as far as they are concerned).