Writer's Molasses

I am coining this term, Writer's Molasses. It's what I have right now. Personally, I think it's worse than writer's block, mainly because you know what you want to write, you just don't know how to write it. So it ends up taking you an hour just to write two or three sentences and it's so easy to get distracted since it's not like you're coming up with much anyway. At least with writer's block you have no idea what you want to write. If writer's block is wanting cookies, writer's molasses is wanting cookies that you can smell your mom making for the band booster's bake sale and you can't eat any of them, and they're your favorite kind made just how you like them and the smell is so mouthwatering that you'd gladly wade through ten miles of raw sewage (since the smell is strong enough to cross through the stench somehow) to them.
Yeah, I hate this.
-Heather

Ideas, Ideas, Ideas.

So, I'm taking a Biz Tech class and it has taught me that what really takes time with writing is the idea process. I know this because I just typed five pages in under an hour. Typically I could never do that, but because I didn't have to think up anything it was quite easy. I don't know. I just felt like putting that out there.

Ideas take the most time when it comes to writing. It has been proven.
-Heather

Writer FAQ: How can your character's suprise you?

So I recently had this question asked of me by my brother. I was talking about how I couldn't believe that my characters had done something and he had expressed how he never understood the "character's surprising you thing". My mom also made a comment about how I could just make them do what I want.
So I felt the need to add this new topic to the plate along with Novel Updates, Character talks, and Book Reviews, Writer FAQ's.
So here's where the answer lies for the question, How can your characters surprise you?
The answer all lies withing character development. You get to a certain point in your writing where your characters really are their own people, who make their own decisions that you have to go with or face the wrath of breaking the character! As you write you realize that because that character is who they are, they have to do something, and even though that may not be what you had in mind, to do anything else wouldn't be being true to the character.
So that's pretty much the answer I could probably write more on it, but I should probably go to bed or something.
-Heather
P.S. Went to the book store today and got two books I haven't read yet, so reviews coming soon.

Novel Update

I am so psyched right now. I've gotten to some interesting points in my novel where 1) it's less making up what happens and more following through events in a logical course based on what's already been established, and 2) tons of stuff keeps clicking together in new mind boggling ways. Things have started making more sense because of these two things which makes me very very happy, despite how much rewriting it's caused.
So just an update. I'm thinking about posting my "character ringtones" soon, if I can finish going through all my music looking for the songs. Hannah has most of hers done while I don't even think Adelene or Tyler have any. Oh, well.
-Heather