{"id":3270,"date":"2013-06-07T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrencecconnolly.com\/archive\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2023-07-29T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T00:19:53","slug":"biggest-ah-ha-moments-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrencecconnolly.com\/archive\/2013\/06\/07\/biggest-ah-ha-moments-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest ‘Ah-Ha!’ Moments in Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Draven<\/a><\/h3>\n

Once upon a time I was working on a story about a kid with an imaginary friend. The first few pages seemed to write themselves, but then everything stalled. I had no idea where the thing was going, only that it wasn\u2019t in the direction I had intended. For nearly a week I wrestled with the thing, trying one predictable and unremarkable resolution after another. I wanted to give up on it. I had other things to do. But something kept me plugging away, writing scenes, forcing resolutions. And then \u2013 after a week of dead ends \u2013 it clicked. Bam! So simple, so perfect, and yet when it came to me it nearly knocked me out of the chair. . . . [Read More at Draven Ames’s blog Biggest Ah-ha! Moments in Writing<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time I was working on a story about a kid with an imaginary friend. The first few pages seemed to write themselves, but then everything stalled. I had no idea where the thing was going, only that it wasn\u2019t in the direction I had intended. For nearly a week I wrestled with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-centuryscop","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t