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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:49 pm
I kind of hope that this can be just a forum were we can gather to talk about our own personal processes and how we each approach writing. For example: What inspires you to write? Have you ever had an idea completely run away with you? Do reading other works give you ideas? That sort of thing.
For instance, I started a story a couple months ago. I meant it to be a sequel to another short story I wrote, maybe 3 or 4 thousand words pages. I threw a couple vague ideas down on paper with some characters I had been kind of forming in my head for some time, and it has entirely taken on a life of its own. I usually write stories with one central character and a very small cast of supporting; currently I have two narrators, a whole troop of supporting characters, and it's at about 30000 words. I haven't even fleshed out the first of the four or five main ides. Anyone else have similar experiences?
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:00 pm
I completely understand where you're coming from! I'll write one thing and it'll be really well and developed, but it spurs me to write another and they all become life forms of themselves. Right now, I need to de-clutter my area and figure out which story I wanna do first. ^^
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:09 am
Exactly, me too. I've been trying to focus on the story I've been working on for about 4 months, but other ideas keep popping up that I have to shelve for now. I have a whole notepad full of ideas I've had to shunt to the side. My problem is that I'll start working on one thing, but never finish because writing keeps giving me new stories to tell.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:13 pm
Gnomes-san Exactly, me too. I've been trying to focus on the story I've been working on for about 4 months, but other ideas keep popping up that I have to shelve for now. I have a whole notepad full of ideas I've had to shunt to the side. My problem is that I'll start working on one thing, but never finish because writing keeps giving me new stories to tell. Same here! And then I feel terrible because I'm like you poor story...But all these ideas keep coming up!!!!!!! scream
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:40 am
I unfortunately don't have that issue. What tends to happen with me is that I'll think of a story line that sounds wonderful to me but I almost always fizzle out. I'm pretty sure it won't happen on the book I'm currently working on for I've never been so serious. I've been writing ideas on the back of my order tickets at work. XD (I'm a waitress if you couldn't tell) One problem i do have is that I tend to stress my characters and after a while I don't really have much of a say over what they do anymore. So now basically they do what they want in response to the story and I'm just a channel for them to do so. sweatdrop Anyone else have that problem?
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:19 am
I often get into that corner too. Whenever I do I find the best remedy is read or watch something new. For instance, I was in a rut for the story I'm working on, then my last day off I watched Hugo and The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. I afterwards wrote for about 9 hours straight.
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:57 am
What I have discovered about myself surprised me. My inspiration for a story can come from anywhere at anytime, which can make my writers block last a very long time. My process is rather odd, from an outside point of view.
When I create characters for a story I start with their personality, likes and dislikes. Then i decide on how they speak, after that they grow on their own. When it comes to the characters dialogue i say it several times out loud to decide on what fits the character. For actions, I act them out to get the most accurate details.
Poetry however, is a far different process for me. I choose a subject and an emotion then I clear my mind and let the words flow out. Of course, this really only works on occasion but you can't rush art.
Oh yea, pretty much every story idea i get quickly grows out of control.
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:31 pm
I usually have many story lines just floating around in my head. They come to me randomly, sometimes from dreams, day-dreaming, or reading a story and I get completely detracted thinking "but what if..." I usually don't rush it and by the time I get around to really planning a story, another one pops up. I currently have... five ideas floating around. Some of them have completely nothing to do with the other on completely other sides of the spectrum. Even as I'm writing this an I idea is forming in my head. To me, coming up with the plot and general outline is very easy... It's the connecting everything and putting it down on paper that gets me.
But with poetry, I usually do it all in one sitting. It's usually when I feel a strong emotion or have a moment of enlightenment (which could includes me staring out the window and noticing how green the leaves are). The words come naturally to me.
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:30 pm
Im getting that feeling where im losing interest with the story im writing. Its like i'll just look at it and not come up with words, but i do wanna keep going with it cause i have a lot of ideas for it. any solution or advice?
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 3:06 pm
Sorry for being inactive for a little while! *sigh* So many doctor visits...
I love reading other works. I do feel that it inspires me - at least in the way I write. For instance, after devouring Dumas' and Austen's works, I certainly use better vocabulary and grammar. (Less vulgarity as well.) However, the opposite can be true as well.
I generally get my inspiration from a combination of music and whatever is going on in my life at that particular moment. I think that's why I'm better at short stories rather than novels.
When I try to write longer, I continually have characters pop up! They're so fleshed out too and so in need of a story that I just don't have the heart to turn them down. Unfortunately, that means I have a rather long list of protagonists without stories as their particular stories just haven't been written despite my meaning to...
GhostlyMark; I don't have really any advice. I am in the same pickle with the story I started last year! Perhaps, if you have any other characters, you and I might pick up a new story for just a bit and then try and come back to our old ones? Anyone else have some ideas on this? heart
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:31 pm
GhostlyMark Im getting that feeling where im losing interest with the story im writing. Its like i'll just look at it and not come up with words, but i do wanna keep going with it cause i have a lot of ideas for it. any solution or advice? That is a problem I run into quite often. I have two ways of getting past it, I either discuss the story with someone or write out the later events and comeback to the 'pit' later. That's all I can offer for now. Good luck on your story by the way.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:51 pm
Most of my writing comes from my daydreams and dreams. I get inspired by books occasionally, but I like to observe things and people. All tend to give me ideas. I know how it feels to have multiple ideas happening at once. It drives me nuts sometimes, because I tend to lose interest in one thing for the other. Same goes for stories (though, I'm a short story writer).
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:56 pm
Jessa Hazel and GhostlyMark; I don't have really any advice. I am in the same pickle with the story I started last year! Perhaps, if you have any other characters, you and I might pick up a new story for just a bit and then try and come back to our old ones? Anyone else have some ideas on this? heart well its not like i can throw in characters all willy nilly i think its because the environment im writing in (alot of tv surrounded me with loud siblings can thow me off))or the fact i have only made plans for three characters n made so littles plans for the story v.v
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:01 pm
NastyNate27 GhostlyMark Im getting that feeling where im losing interest with the story im writing. Its like i'll just look at it and not come up with words, but i do wanna keep going with it cause i have a lot of ideas for it. any solution or advice? That is a problem I run into quite often. I have two ways of getting past it, I either discuss the story with someone or write out the later events and comeback to the 'pit' later. That's all I can offer for now. Good luck on your story by the way. i'll try to write out the events. i kinda wrote it out on a whim cause the idea interested me n a certain thing i saw inspired me
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:05 pm
Its happened to me before too. I'll come up with a basic concept for a short story, and before I know it, it's ballooned out of control and is several chapters long xD
But I get inspiration from everywhere. People places, experiences mundane and otherwise. I aim to make the mundane extraordinary, and read lots of adventurous stories to expand my imaginations. When it comes to writing fantasy, imagination is olne of the most important things. The original I'm writing now is fantasy, but I don't want to make it the archetypical, cliche'd high-fantasy everyone thinks of when they think of 'fantasy'. I aim to reshape the genre in my own way.
Because hey, why should the sky be the limit when people have been in space?
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