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 Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:19 pm
This pickled vegetable...I'm sure this has all happened to us at some point or another. Where we're on a role, writing like there's no tomorrow, everything's going great and then suddenly we hit a brick wall.
Not Writers' Block, you can still write, that's not the problem. The problem is you suddenly have no idea where to go from here. You have written yourself into a corner and aren't sure how to get out of it and continue the story. What do you do?
No seriously, what do you do?
* Do you just skip to the next scene and hope to figure it out later?
* Do you rewrite and revise what you've already written so that you're corner disappears?
* Do you put the story down for a week or two and come back to it latter when you're in a different state of mind?
How do you un-stick yourself? ... could kick your a** !!
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:08 pm
Oh godness, this is one of my biggest issues- it happens to me all the time!
I usually try to put my writing away from awhile. I'll play out the troubling part in my head in various different ways. I may do that for several days or weeks trying all kinds of various alternatives. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. If I absolutely can't figure out how to dig myself out of the hole, I'll start the whole section over and figure out a whole new route to take.
I definitely don't like to just skip it and come back. I use to do that a lot, but I would end up taking my story in a whole different direction without finding a way to tie the two parts together- it just didn't work for me.
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:02 pm
This pickled vegetable...So, I'm writing a number of stories at the moment (both fan fic and original) and I seem to have managed to write myself into a corner in every one of them. (Yes, I am so full of fail.)
Anyway, I'd really like to drag myself out of at least one of them and continue with the story but I'm just at a loss as to how. I know its kinda hard for y'all to help me without posting either excerpts or synopses from them, but I know how bad my stories are and I'm a little to self-conscious... I guess I'm just posting here to rant mostly. ... could kick your a** !!
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:49 pm
Hmm, that is a cunundrum. A good wa to avoid that situation, especially if it happens to you often, is to have wirte an outline of hte story before you start. Some writer's say this takes away from the creativity, but sometimes an outline is a very important tool.
I usually like to take as many notes as possible when the story hits me. I write as much as possible in a stream-of-consciousness style. Then I look back and figure out what the imporant things are. I'll brainstorm a way to tie it all in together, what important events should happen. Then, I write big points, as well as some smaller ones, on cue cards. I like cue cards better than a regular outline because I can move things around that way.
Then, you just write the scenes you've thought of, and it's usually a lot easier to figure out how to get out of a corner because you already know where the story is going before it starts.
An important thing to remember about this technique is that an outline can be changed. If you have a revelation and realize that there are many important things that just have to happen, that the story must end a different way, of that one of the scenes you though of is junk, that's okay too.
The idea is that even if you're writing fiction, ti's easier to wrie with an outline. A great essayist won't wite until most of the idea is already there and jsut needs to be written in, creative writing can often work the same way. You just make your outline as loose or as detailed as your style of writing needs it to be.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:14 pm
Renkon Root This pickled vegetable...So, I'm writing a number of stories at the moment (both fan fic and original) and I seem to have managed to write myself into a corner in every one of them. (Yes, I am so full of fail.)
Anyway, I'd really like to drag myself out of at least one of them and continue with the story but I'm just at a loss as to how. I know its kinda hard for y'all to help me without posting either excerpts or synopses from them, but I know how bad my stories are and I'm a little to self-conscious... I guess I'm just posting here to rant mostly. ... could kick your a** !! I know what you mean. Just two hours, I had so much creativity flowing into my writing, and then all of a sudden--NOTHING! I didn't know what to write next. This is what I usually do. 1. Sit down. Watch some TV. Get a little inspiration from there. 2. Take a walk. Fresh air=fresh ideas. 3. Read a book/ fanfiction (I recommend www.fanfiction.net) 4. If your writing it in a notebook or on looseleaf paper, try typing it. That always seems to get my creative juices flowing a bit better. 5. Take a nap. Dream. Maybe your mind's just a little overworked. I still haven't really gotten over my writing block yet, but I'm getting there. Little by little, I've added more to my story. smile Don't worry, writer's block is just temporary.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:48 pm
honeybee_506 3. Read a book/ fanfiction (I recommend www.fanfiction.net) Oh, I practically live on fanfiction.net. ... could kick your a** !!
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:50 am
This pickled vegetable...Just wanted to say that I got myself out of the corner in one of the stories. ... could kick your a** !!
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:15 am
Usually when that happens to me I get mad, walk away for a while, come back and try to write forward, give up, cry tears of blood, then scrap everything I've written in that section and start it again.
If I don't take the story in a completely different direction, i'm doing it wrong.
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