Smash! Bang! Lack of wallop!

[desperance]

It would seem that I can no longer write action scenes. At all. I do understand the theory, and I used to have the practice at my fingertips; my characters were effective, they made stuff happen.

Nowadays, those rare times when stuff happens, I only want to talk about the people watching or catching up later or investigating the consequences of the action. Urgh. Years ago, I did say that I was bored with plot - but I was joking, 'k? I didn't mean for the gods of textuality to take me seriously. They have stolen from me my ability to tell a plain tale at the cutting edge, and I resent that.

None the less, I damn well am going to finish this page, if nothing more tonight. On, on...

Comments

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

Maybe it isn't that you can't write them. You just may be less interested in them than you once were. I find that happening to me.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup, I think is exactly so. I worry, though, that this is commercial suicide, another example of (I have a grand history of sabotaging my own magnificent progress towards bestsellerdom: as witness, never got there yet...). Every book I swear I am going to pay more attention to What The Reader Wants; every book, I get more and more abstruse and self-indulgent...

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

More bodices ripping! More vampires moping! More adolescent orphans saving the world from you-know-who! More major battles deciding the fate of the free world!

Er... no, please.