Nino Gugunishvili
There are days when writing even a single paragraph seems as a unacomplishable task. There are days, when I think I’m just starting to learn how and what to write, structure a sentence, then a scene, or a dialogue, word by word, forming it into a narrative. There are days, when I am at the dead end, with absolutely no idea what to write next and how to move forward with a growing self-doubt eating me, almost torturing, with all the “what if’s” and the “no” s.
In those days, I wonder how I managed to write my first book, trying to remember what motivated me, what made me sit and write untill I was happy with the result. Wanting to write and thinking you have the whole story in your head that only needs to be put down on paper is one thing, and writing it is the whole other.
You think you know what the opening should be, and who your characters are, how they act in given circumstances, what are the challenges or life-changing choices they make and encounter, but characters have their own quirks and within the process of brewing up in your head to coming into your story they change, often dramatically, or they vanish at all. You loose those small parts of mosaic that looked so perfectly matched and fitted in your head. The plot twists that you were hoping would develop the story, all of a sudden, seem artificial.
Writing my second book was more demanding, more difficult, more excruciating and panicky. The experience I’ve gained through the entire journey from writing to the publication of my debut novel Friday Evening, Eight O’Clock, made me more responsible and to a certain extent less free.
What if I’m never going to finish writing it? What if I’m going to be stuck forever? What if I'll end up sitting in front of my computer without moving further with the story I planned to tell, ever? These were the thoughts crossing my mind during writing my second book, which I've published only just recently.
Well, the good thing probably is, that all the wonderful stories start with the “what if”s! Don’t they?
In those days, I wonder how I managed to write my first book, trying to remember what motivated me, what made me sit and write untill I was happy with the result. Wanting to write and thinking you have the whole story in your head that only needs to be put down on paper is one thing, and writing it is the whole other.
You think you know what the opening should be, and who your characters are, how they act in given circumstances, what are the challenges or life-changing choices they make and encounter, but characters have their own quirks and within the process of brewing up in your head to coming into your story they change, often dramatically, or they vanish at all. You loose those small parts of mosaic that looked so perfectly matched and fitted in your head. The plot twists that you were hoping would develop the story, all of a sudden, seem artificial.
Writing my second book was more demanding, more difficult, more excruciating and panicky. The experience I’ve gained through the entire journey from writing to the publication of my debut novel Friday Evening, Eight O’Clock, made me more responsible and to a certain extent less free.
What if I’m never going to finish writing it? What if I’m going to be stuck forever? What if I'll end up sitting in front of my computer without moving further with the story I planned to tell, ever? These were the thoughts crossing my mind during writing my second book, which I've published only just recently.
Well, the good thing probably is, that all the wonderful stories start with the “what if”s! Don’t they?
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