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Serious question, does a 'bad writing week' actually help your process?
Last Tuesday I deleted 4,000 words of a fantasy draft because the middle felt flat, then rewrote it in two hours after a coffee shop stranger said my villain sounded too nice. I think the struggle forced me to actually see the weak spots instead of polishing around them. Does anyone else find that a bad writing day usually ends up pointing you to a better story idea?
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richardrodriguez13d ago
I read this essay by Chuck Wendig once where he said bad writing days are like a compass pointing into a swamp, and you gotta walk through the swamp to find the dry ground. That stuck with me. Last month I had a scene that kept stalling, I must have restarted it five times, then I realized the whole chapter was just a placeholder for a bigger idea I was avoiding. The struggle showed me the book was actually about the friendship, not the quest, and that rewrite was way easier.
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