Screw subtext, who needs it anyway
Jul. 17th, 2014 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
breakinglight11I have a lot of writing to get done in the next couple of weeks, and it's going to take a lot of focus, discipline, and marshalling of my skills to do it. I'm feeling a bit frustrated right now, and though I know I'll work through it, I want to bitch about it a little.
My writing is too obvious sometimes. I suck at writing subtext. When I try to include it, it never reads and the audience never perceives it. When I try to make it clearer, it becomes obvious again and stops being subtext at all. Everything I've been writing lately feels way too on-the-nose, which it really can't be to serve the purpose. Even all my studying of Mad Men to learn how to do it better doesn't seem to be paying off.
I often feel like I know what I need to accomplish with my writing and have no idea how to accomplish it. I know what needs to happen in a given scene, but I can't figure out a way to do it that doesn't seem contrived or too direct. Everybody just says exactly what they're thinking, or what they need to in order to make the plot go forward. It comes off feeling so unnatural, not believeable at all.
Also the S key on my iPad keyboard is wearing out. Not really a craft issue, but it's bugging the hell out of me having to push S twice sometimes just to get the letter.
My writing is too obvious sometimes. I suck at writing subtext. When I try to include it, it never reads and the audience never perceives it. When I try to make it clearer, it becomes obvious again and stops being subtext at all. Everything I've been writing lately feels way too on-the-nose, which it really can't be to serve the purpose. Even all my studying of Mad Men to learn how to do it better doesn't seem to be paying off.
I often feel like I know what I need to accomplish with my writing and have no idea how to accomplish it. I know what needs to happen in a given scene, but I can't figure out a way to do it that doesn't seem contrived or too direct. Everybody just says exactly what they're thinking, or what they need to in order to make the plot go forward. It comes off feeling so unnatural, not believeable at all.
Also the S key on my iPad keyboard is wearing out. Not really a craft issue, but it's bugging the hell out of me having to push S twice sometimes just to get the letter.
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