Comments on: The Tipping Point http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:39:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: S.C. Butler http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6058 S.C. Butler Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:31:46 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6058 Seebo - Glad you're liking our site. And keep writing despite the roadblocks. I'm sure you'll get on another roll soon! Jere7my - Patience is important for any kind of writing. Patience to make sure you get it right. Patience when you try to find an agent. Patience even if you sell something. (It takes forever for things to actually come out. Lara - The tipping point feeling is always elusive. That's why it feels so great when it finally arrives. And yes, we are masochists. An addiction, I call it. Seebo – Glad you’re liking our site. And keep writing despite the roadblocks. I’m sure you’ll get on another roll soon!

Jere7my – Patience is important for any kind of writing. Patience to make sure you get it right. Patience when you try to find an agent. Patience even if you sell something. (It takes forever for things to actually come out.

Lara – The tipping point feeling is always elusive. That’s why it feels so great when it finally arrives. And yes, we are masochists. An addiction, I call it.

]]> By: Lara Morgan http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6053 Lara Morgan Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:02:32 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6053 That tipping point feeling sometimes seems as elusive as chasing rainbows. Most of the time when I'm working I feel as if I have no idea what I'm doing, wonder if any of it makes any sense and find myself wondering if perhaps I should have taken up something more suited to my intelligence level - like fly swatting. However I have just recently been editing my second book and have, thank the lord of fly swatters, had that eureka moment when it feels like it is actually, maybe all acheivable and perhaps this books is not really in need of being strapped to the next space shuttle and ejected as junk. But then again, that's just today. Tomorrow it could all fall in a heap again. But isn't that the challenge of why we do it? Just a bunch of masochists really aren't we. That tipping point feeling sometimes seems as elusive as chasing rainbows. Most of the time when I’m working I feel as if I have no idea what I’m doing, wonder if any of it makes any sense and find myself wondering if perhaps I should have taken up something more suited to my intelligence level – like fly swatting. However I have just recently been editing my second book and have, thank the lord of fly swatters, had that eureka moment when it feels like it is actually, maybe all acheivable and perhaps this books is not really in need of being strapped to the next space shuttle and ejected as junk.
But then again, that’s just today. Tomorrow it could all fall in a heap again.
But isn’t that the challenge of why we do it?
Just a bunch of masochists really aren’t we.

]]> By: jere7my http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6052 jere7my Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:17:29 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6052 <i>What do you do when you think a story is finally coming together?</i> Stiiiiiiill waitin'. What do you do when you think a story is finally coming together?

Stiiiiiiill waitin’.

]]> By: S.C. Butler http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6051 S.C. Butler Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:49:32 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6051 Radish - You're not the only one. I live for those days, too. Radish – You’re not the only one. I live for those days, too.

]]> By: Radish http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6050 Radish Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:12:44 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6050 Often, that tipping point is abrupt, like a match being struck -- it just flares to life and into being, so bright and unexpected that it momentarily blinds the witness. But more often it's like waiting for fermentation to begin, when the grape squeezings decides it wants to become wine. And then there are the days when dialogue and events beautifully fall into place, like Tetris on auto-pilot. Oh-hhh, I live for those days. Often, that tipping point is abrupt, like a match being struck — it just flares to life and into being, so bright and unexpected that it momentarily blinds the witness.

But more often it’s like waiting for fermentation to begin, when the grape squeezings decides it wants to become wine.

And then there are the days when dialogue and events beautifully fall into place, like Tetris on auto-pilot. Oh-hhh, I live for those days.

]]> By: Seebo http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6049 Seebo Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:37:04 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2009/03/15/the-tipping-point/#comment-6049 I've only recently come across this site and this lovely blog is a great example of why I'll be coming back. Positive, open and really encouraging reading that makes you remember why you write. Thank you Mr Butler, this is wonderfully timed for me, to remind myself that sometimes (oh, boy, just sometimes!) this feeling does happen. For me, it's that sudden rush and pumping of the heart and your fingers struggling to catch up with your brain. I call it being 'on a roll' and when that happens time stops, the walls fall away and the juices just flow. Whether the words are any good, at that point, doesn't matter for me, it's the feeling that you've *connected* with what you're writing and some part of you - the rhythm part, if you will - hits sync with your heart. And that's why I write for those rare, diamond moments. Thanks again. Great to hear you describe it so clearly on a day when there seems to be a roadblock on anything I do with the keyboard! I’ve only recently come across this site and this lovely blog is a great example of why I’ll be coming back. Positive, open and really encouraging reading that makes you remember why you write. Thank you Mr Butler, this is wonderfully timed for me, to remind myself that sometimes (oh, boy, just sometimes!) this feeling does happen.

For me, it’s that sudden rush and pumping of the heart and your fingers struggling to catch up with your brain. I call it being ‘on a roll’ and when that happens time stops, the walls fall away and the juices just flow. Whether the words are any good, at that point, doesn’t matter for me, it’s the feeling that you’ve *connected* with what you’re writing and some part of you – the rhythm part, if you will – hits sync with your heart. And that’s why I write for those rare, diamond moments.

Thanks again. Great to hear you describe it so clearly on a day when there seems to be a roadblock on anything I do with the keyboard!

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