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[janradder]

I'm feeling really very frustrated right now with what I'm writing.  I've been working on my punk memoir for maybe a couple of weeks now and I'm still essentially writing the back story.  I have yet to get into what I really want to write about which is fine.  That's how I've always worked -- I usually write more than I need and then get rid of the excess.  At this point, I really don't know how much of what I've written I'll actually keep.  That's not so much the problem.

The problem I'm having is that I'm stuck in this one section and I really don't know how much of this part of my life I want to include and how much is really necessary and I'm just having a hell of a time getting it down, anyway.  I feel like I keep coming up against these walls.  I start and stutter,  start and stutter, and just can't seem to get into a roll.  Part of me wants to just jump ahead into the section that I really want to write and another part thinks I should keep slogging along with what I'm doing now.  If I jump ahead, I really don't know how I'll come back to what I've left undone because I don't work very well writing non-sequentially.  If I keep slogging through, I'll be frustrated but at the same time, mentally I've been working out different later sections, so it might help those later sections.

Maybe that's part of the problem -- that I'm just not thinking enough about what I'm writing right now.  Perhaps if I stopped what I'm working on at present and set down a rough outline -- maybe even a list of what I want to write about -- it'll help me navigate through this section without so many stops and starts.

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[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Do both--write what you want to write--but at the same time, keep track in skecthy rough form the parts you're skipping over.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Thanks -- I actually did some notebook writing about what it was that I wanted to tell in the section I'm working on and realized that I was going off on a completely inconsequential tangent and that there were really just three small points I wanted to touch on. I've decided to backtrack to where the tangent began, cut it, quickly get to those three points and that would bring me up to the section that I've been wanting to write.