Latinka - Aku Bisa Mati

Not that I'm saying I'm a good writer...but I had a most frustrating experience the other night. I have been busily writing on my WIP. I'm on chapter 27 and bammo...it sucked so bad I could have used it for a vacuum cleaner. It seems as if some chapters come so easily, effortlessly. The flow and plot and characters are all doing what they need to be doing and the world is a beautiful place. Same writer, same story, but suddenly it's weak and stiff and wooden. Why?

I'm a plotter. A very loose one, but a plotter all the same. So I have certain expectations going in that sometimes don't always come to fruition. Something wonderfully unexpected will happen and I'll decide that new path may be a better, more exciting one, and still incorporate the essence of the planned scene into the new one. Why then do I find myself with a bunch of characters that act as if they don't know their lines, or have stage fright. Why does one day my prose sound as if it was tuned like a fine instrument, and others as if I had never heard of characterization, setting, or plot.

The long and short of this is that I have chapter 27 that does absolutely nothing. That I spent a day and a half writing, and will never use. Perhaps some of the conversations will show up in the new 27, but I'm scrapping it.

Ever finished writing a chapter or two only to realize you hated it? Or do you usually catch that while it's happening?

-Kat