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| Jessi | Sep 8 2013, 04:44 PM Post #1 |
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*sigh* Have you ever had a day when your creativity is booming but the words just aren’t there? How do you blow past that? I have absolutely no idea what to write. There are four stories that I can work on, or I can start something entirely new… but I just can’t make words form in my head to tell a story. :headdesk: |
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| Angel | Sep 8 2013, 04:47 PM Post #2 |
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You could try just sitting down and writing anything and everything that comes into your head. Just to get the words flowing. Don't sit down with a story in mind, just write. Maybe even time yourself but don't stop writing until your time is up. Sometimes that helps me. Plus you'll laugh at the weird stuff you end up writing. I always end up with some weird combination of real life and my stories. Then I scrap it and start working on one of my stories. |
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| Andy | Sep 8 2013, 06:11 PM Post #3 |
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^ That sometimes works for me. I also find the stress of having a free day to write sometimes becomes too much pressure and totally puts me off. What I do then is stop writing, and make notes from a book I'm reading (either lit crit or a novel). Suddenly when I don't have to write (sooner if I tell myself that I am not allowed to write) and doing a boring task...the ideas seem to appear out of nowhere. |
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| juls | Sep 26 2013, 04:44 AM Post #4 |
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An idea also is just to close your eyes and let the plot of your story flow through your mind. (You might fall asleep, cause this is the method I use before I fall asleep at night!) Acting it out in your head without worries of actually typing it out helps me to sometimes get through that awful 'bump' in the road (or more exactly, to get past that first, awkward paragraph). A lot of times you'll 'dream' it to - just, hopefully it's not something 'violent' you're writing. Also - for me at least - it's getting past that first paragraph or so to actually get the words flowing. Like Angel said, and in my words here - put your character on 'spam' and just write. Helps me get through the block (which is often another character who's unhappy and holding the others back). Then, of course, they all suddenly want to write when I am supposed to be sleeping. |
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