When you're telling a story, there are two major struggles you take into account: the external struggle (all the exciting stuff that happens on the page - physical battles, etc) and the internal struggle (all the more or less invisible character-building that goes on as a result of all the physical, external stuff).
Today I am trying to get my writing groove back after weeks of an appallingly unfriendly work schedule, and it is not working. At all. Not the way I want it to, anyway. All I seem to be able to focus on is my main character's internal struggle, which is nice and all, and kind of important, but really, really boring to read about. And I don't seem to be able to connect anything internal to the external.
Bleah.
I'm going to blame my lack of thyroid meds for this, turn off the computer, and go think about something else. I need to get ready for work anyway - hooray for closing shift. Will work my way back into this.
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