let's talk about writing boring stuff!!
this isn't really applicable to standalone/one-shots, because the best short stories are ones in which every scene is meaningful and counts for something, but in longer stories, i think a very hard to swallow pill is the fact that not every scene you write will be a joy to have in class.
as writers we never want anything we write to be boring, primarily because that's what you're taught, but it's important to keep in mind that in a longer story this is not only inevitable, but also very necessary.
if every scene in a book was a banger it wouldn't be a very good story, precisely because, in a story like that, you would miss out on scenes that move the plot or character development but which feel completely mediocre to write. travel scenes are a pretty good example, i think. it's not that they're never fun to write, but they can be tedious and, because of that, dull from the driver's seat.
@trash-god actually told me recently, when we were discussing this in discord, that these kinds of scenes are like drawing backgrounds for art: they ground the art, they add nice things to look at in the background, and the completed piece would be a lot worse without them—but man are they tedious to work on! more importantly, i think most artists, as they're in the process of working on the background, might struggle to imagine this adds "that much" to their work, though when it's all said and done they're usually glad they took the time to do it.
so that's what i'm doing, now, when i run into a scene i put into my outline that i'm not particularly excited about: i remind myself that it's necessary to the work and adds something to it, and will be worth the time it takes to write it, even if I'm not having the time of my life putting it together.
and like, i think it's really important to highlight the fact that for both writers and artists, there are going to be times when the work is hard. when it sucks. when you're like UGHHHH I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS!!! and yeah, as a writer you can choose to employ techniques like "write a description of what needs to happen and skip it to come back later and work on it." but you can also just force yourself to push through it, too, on the basis that, despite our stupid brains trying to demand special juicy chemicals for writing, sometimes what you work on will not give you the juice because it is not MEANT to give you the juice. it will give you the blehs instead, or the annoyance, or the "this sucks, wtf."
and that's okay. that's literally just a part of the process.
the fun part is, after you edit it, your readers won't ever even know that you struggled with it in the first place. crazy how that works, isn't it?
