700 to 7k: Day 4

[xfirefly9x]

Day 4 is here already! That happened fast.

♦ How are you feeling about the challenge and/or your goals so far?

♦ What’s your approach to world building or writing settings?

♦ Share some descriptions of the world your project is set in (whether direct from your story or just describing it to share here)

Comments

[guildrone]

What do you think makes a section of writing boring?

The most honest answer I can give is “if it’s boring”…which is indeed a circular answer, but there are so many ways a stretch of prose can engage me—as a piece of narrative, a brain-teaser in its own right, and/or when put in a broader context besides—that I can’t really think of anything that would be ‘boring’ no matter what.

That being said, I just can’t sympathize with the sentiment of “slogging through all the other stuff to get to the scene you actually want to write”—if I’m legitimately uninterested in writing something, I figure my target audience wouldn’t get much mileage out of it either; to that end, I want every sentence of my work to have something to offer past being ‘proper setup’ (for whatever that’s even worth).

[xfirefly9x]

That's fair. I agree that it's much, much better if it isn't a slog. If it's a slog to write, then reading it is not necessarily going to be any better.