Writing is the easy part! —Part 1

Part 1  - “It’s hard for me to not write ‘too much’!

My mind is so full of ideas, and scenarios, and stories that are just oozing out all the time.  I cannot type fast enough, nor dictate into my laptop or iPhone fast enough to get them out.

I feel each part, each detail, each description is important.  My feeling is this, write out what is in your heart and head and go back after you are one to check the word count.   My word count is usually 400 words or more over what it should be.

Before I even edit, I check my word count – because that is the parameter my story must fit in. 

Now, I have my word count and need to chop out words.  My next step is to read through the story, paying attention to ‘same words’, or sentences that seem to say what I already said. 

I am always amazed that what I just finished typing had so many items that were redundant and repetitive.  I go through and eliminate all of the duplicates, and then highlight and hit wordcount, and pray I got rid of a bunch!

Nope!  Humm, now what?  Okay, let me go through and read it again.  This is the worst part for me.  My story is compelling, it’s funny, I’ve eliminated the duplicate sentences and phrases, now what am I supposed to do.

Go through and read it again, chop, cut, move paragraphs around and say things in a more concise manner.  The only thing, this is not the story I had in my head.  I want to write it the way I am thinking it, wrong vernacular and all!

I cannot understand writer’s block, I cannot understand folks agonize over the first sentence, the next sentence, the end.  I have it all.  It’s all there.  I just wish I could keep it all there.  Writing is the easy part!