Thread: The Muse/Inspiration vs Grunting It Out, word by frickin' word

Which is correct? Should every scene just come to you, or is it simply hard work, joining the dots?

I've hit that recherché place again in my latest novel. The thing us writers call "the zone". In the last two weeks, I've written 29K. Compared to the two months which came before that, during which time I was lucky if I wrote twenty-nine words, it's a blessing.

Every scene will never come to you. If writing was easy, every Tom, Dick, and Harry would have written a novel at this stage. Soldier on, with the knowledge that, on those days where you have to wrest every word from your head, there are also days that those words flow like a river. They may be at a premium, but they exist.

Just go ahead and write. Don't worry about it. That's what us lil ignernt boys from Misipi do.

Did he say "should"?

I think its all in the waiting.
Its hard to be inspired with a full writer package inclusive. The dots must be attached the hard way -to move on- until you come back to it again when inspired. Otherwise, I will need to get high on something and wait long enough for the muse of that full package to come. Sometimes it comes, and when it does, I bless those who discovered for us coffee and tea.
Still though, can't decide which way is correct, I guess which ever works for the writer is.