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Hallie
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Jan 17, 2016 07:10AM
How could I forget this!
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When I think of the perfect idea and I start writing and I think it's no good and throw it out
ughhh i get that too. except that i actually like that XD
Writing a plot and things are getting juicy but realizing... oh wait, how do I tie all of this up?Annnnnd having writer's block when you want to write but at the strangest time of day, you get an most amazing idea... only to forget it later.
You guys hit the nail on the head for several of theses, but I'll also come up with the 'important' scenes/interactions/dialog in the story, but then stringing them together I find so hard sometimes. Like the quiet parts between the important parts, if that make any sense.
Anna wrote: "Writing a plot and things are getting juicy but realizing... oh wait, how do I tie all of this up?
Annnnnd having writer's block when you want to write but at the strangest time of day, you get an..."
Ikr? And then you keep trying to remember and its ughh
Annnnnd having writer's block when you want to write but at the strangest time of day, you get an..."
Ikr? And then you keep trying to remember and its ughh
Leo wrote: "You guys hit the nail on the head for several of theses, but I'll also come up with the 'important' scenes/interactions/dialog in the story, but then stringing them together I find so hard sometime..."
I think you're talking about the transition?
I think you're talking about the transition?
Sarah wrote: "When I feel in my bones that I want to write something, but I don't have an ounce of idea in me. Creativity and the ability to think outside of the box are things I need to work on."
For some reason, I don't have that! My current of ideas are always flowing and its actually very frustrating >.<
For some reason, I don't have that! My current of ideas are always flowing and its actually very frustrating >.<
I'd give you my ideas anytime XD
Honey, I have over 70 novels. I can give up a few.
Its sort of an endearment I call almost everyone haha sorry
Kikki. If you can't handle me at my Strider, you don't deserve me at my Aragorn wrote: "Hand cramps"Very true! Thanks to my strange way of holding the pen, my finger is always hurting.
Yup I hate the idea of spending so much time building these people's worlds and then having to tie it all off... it makes me kinda sad xD
You could always write a sequel :) My friends say I'll write to death, so maybe I'll be writing the last book then.
Ahahaha I guess that's a point, I may have to write some more 0.o
I hate it when I have too many ideas. I currently have over a 100 stories to get to.
Tιɴαтн Zαeвα;; ᴀ ɢʟᴀss ᴏғ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴛᴏ sʜᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ wrote: "What's the one thing you hate about writing?"Top thing I hate: promoting my work. Yuck. Especially in a digital world!
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Have you ever come upon an unfishished story you started awhile ago, but have no real memory of having written it and are angry at yourself because you're dying to know how it ends --- but have no clue!?!?
Miriam wrote: "Have you ever come upon an unfishished story you started awhile ago, but have no real memory of having written it and are angry at yourself because you're dying to know how it ends --- but have no ..."A lot of times.
Alayna touched on one of my pet peeves. Writing on one section of a book and you get the big brainstorm for another part and the just getting into bed and you can't turn off your thoughts. Many of my best parts come from a bedside note pad and scribbled keywords for the morning.
Tιɴαтн Zαeвα;; ᴀ ɢʟᴀss ᴏғ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ᴛᴏ sʜᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ wrote: "We all have a lot to tell :) Hey, there's voice activated typing now! You can try that!"
I tried that too, felt weird sitting talking to myself and a don't write in order so it gets pretty confusing when I can't look back and sort.
I tried that too, felt weird sitting talking to myself and a don't write in order so it gets pretty confusing when I can't look back and sort.
I hate how I sometimes come up with a good idea for a chapter, but no further story. So I'll have this scene written out, but I won't be able to come up with a context.
Very true Sanne, that also happens to me.
Sanne wrote: "I hate how I sometimes come up with a good idea for a chapter, but no further story. So I'll have this scene written out, but I won't be able to come up with a context."
Sanne wrote: "I hate how I sometimes come up with a good idea for a chapter, but no further story. So I'll have this scene written out, but I won't be able to come up with a context."
The self doubt/critic which won't stop nagging and refuses to go sit in a corner and be quiet.I've never been a linear writer (start ---->finish) so I always have bits and pieces hanging around.
Thinking up main character names. Especially when everything you think of links to a book you've read or heard of.
I usually don't have a great problem with writer's block. Mine is editing. I hates it, my precious! Self-editing is horrible. I fluctuate between skimming over parts that I 'know' are great, and detesting the stinking garbage that came from my mind. It helps to put aside the draft and work on something else, but that just feeds the procrastination monster. I do love that I write in order, with a plan (subject to change) and a scene list. I keep track of my progress and my goals/endings firmly in mind. But that also means I am less flexible, and when my characters start running rampant, sometimes it's difficult to keep up with them.
I agree on the rewrites, too. I'm in the midst of a major rewrite and the Main Character is NOT cooperating. He just ain't misbehavin' and giving me anything to work with. LOL
Basically that people don't really get that it takes TIME to write, and solitary commitment at that. That non-writers don't understand what it means to be a writer. That we're human beings with lives of our own, and therefore not the reader's bitch. And sometimes we have to make sacrifices, and sometimes we should say yes to fun social events once in a while, and many of the times we feel shackled to the keyboard. And that fame isn't guaranteed either way. That we get a million rejections before we get that first acceptance. And even then, we still get rejections.
And that we have to basically live off grants, which are as much an art as writing a novel, and thus an exercise in persuasion.
It'd be great if my ideas just wrote themselves psychically. That'll be great tech/powers to have!
Mostly though, I just wish I could sort my writing goals out from the swamp of frustration (TM).
And don't get me started on what the Australian government tried to do earlier this year to screw with writers' already-low domestic earnings...
