As I'm reading The Writing Engine, I can't help but be a bit disappointed. This is mainly because my personal favorite kind of "on writing" book is one where the author just tells about himself and what led to his writing habits/philosophy. The Writing Engine is more of a series of short blurbs linking to essays on the author's website. And each one of them backtracks like crazy with "but that doesn't mean this always works" or "this technique only works half the time." Well, yeah, obviously. There are no golden rules. Got it. Please just talk and talk thoroughly in the book, the one that I purchased, with money, that promised to be a book and not a series of links to the real article.
But there is one good point that I found out about today. It's about "Broken Ideas" and it's where something that irks you is on your mind and so you can't concentrate on anything else because even when you sit down to write, that other thought is still your brain's focus. I was a little stumped on where to go in my next scene so I thought I'd take a little break and surf the web for a few seconds. Well, stupid me, I read a little news flash that totally upset me (stupidly) and when I went back to reread the scene and see where to go with it, I wasn't really reading my writing but instead was thinking about the news. I'll have to reread that section of The Writing Engine to see how to solve this problem.
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