Writer's block

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

That sounds like a cool idea. I actually haven't written any more to the story for about 2 or 3 months.

[Brigid ✩]

hey, i had this good idea that i got really stuck on. I wrote the first few chapters and then stopped because I didn't know what to happen next. okay, so here was the basic story so far: there was this girl, and she was sort of "undead" or something. like, she had died, but was in a sort of weird afterlife. only now she has weird supernatural powers. and she's basically like the Grim Reaper. by that, i mean, when people are about to die, she goes to them and takes their souls. So she's kind of miserable, and she also misses her human life, but she's in denial about it. She keeps telling herself that humans are stupid and she's glad not to be one anymore, but really she is totally depressed. Then this guy starts following her around, and this is strange because humans don't usually notice her (unless they're about to die and she's taking their souls away). That's where I stopped writing. My plan for the rest of it was that the guy would turn out to be her opposite: he saves people's souls. so they hate each other at first but then they fall in love somehow (not really sure how) and that's bad for some reason... there's some sort of punishment for it. see, i haven't really figured it out. but i liked the first few chapters that i wrote. any advice? maybe i'll post some of it...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

That sounds really intriguing! Maybe it's bad for the boy and girl to fall in love because then they will combine, and nobody will ever have their souls taken away or saved again.

[Brigid ✩]

ooh. interesting. i like that...

[Brigid ✩]

btw, i posted part of it if anyone is interested. here is the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1...

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

How about they both arrive to someone who is dying at the same time and they get in a fight over who gets to take/save the soul. Then while they are arguing, the person dies and their soul is stuck on earth because neither of them did their job and that is what happened to both the girl(grim reaper) and guy(soul saver). Nobody was there to take their souls to the afterlife. The only reason the guy didn't get the job of grim reaper was because the girl had already taken it so he was givin a new job just for him. Then they both go away mad at each other and blaming everything on the other person when it is just as much their fault.
This keeps happening and happening and more and more jobs have to be made up for all the people getting stuck on earth. (For instance, there are now different levels of guardian angel and Fairy godmother and all the souls compete for the top position or something). Slowly they both realize that they have fallen in love(they got to know each other throught fighting kinda) but they are both in denial but in the end admit it to themselves and each other. So they completely abandon their posts to be with each other without conflict and now nobody is being ferried to the afterlife. The in-between world is only supposed to house a few souls at a time, and only a very small amount are permanent residents. This is really bad so one of thier friends or whatever steps in and takes over the job and takes everyone to the afterlife that had built up in the in-between world.

Oh, and you say that the guy is human? How about he is only human when he wants to be seen or is saving souls, but otherwise, nobody, not even souls, can see him.

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

Wow, I got kinda carried away. But that's what happens when I have ideas, i guess.

[Brigid ✩]

yeah, i like your ideas veronica. :) i was sort of thinking along the same lines as you. well, the very beginning part, anyway, about them meeting when they both show up at a dying person. i had this one other idea for it that i wasn't sure about. see, i was thinking that maybe the soul saver isn't dead like the girl; he's a human being, but with special powers. then he gets in some accident or something, and he's about to die and the girl's about to steal his soul... then she realizes that she doesn't want to kill him, so she lets him live instead. but now he's sort of half-dead, but he can't let anyone know or the soul-stealer girl will get into trouble. so they realize they have to trust each other, because the girl knows that the guy is half-dead, and he knows that she let him live when she shouldn't have. does that make sense?

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

Wow, yeah! I like it!

[Brigid ✩]

cool. maybe i'll continue w/it. i had almost given up on it before...i haven't worked on it in a few weeks.

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

It sounds good. By the way, I'm almost done writing Chapter 8 for Moon Rise, I'll send it to you in a few minutes.

[Brigid ✩]

sweet. :)

[Allie]

I ALWAYS get writers block. Well, i get a new idea for a new story and start that one, then forget all my wonderful ideas for the old one, so am all like uh...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

I usually get writers block when I'm in the middle of a story, and I don't know what to have happen next.

[Andrew]

i get writers block after im thru a chapter or two
but i have my story the Black knight and i cant come up with a new chapter or finish the one i'm working on, please dont penalise me for emptyneess this is just a ruft draft http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1...

[Brigid ✩]

wow... this discussion is from such a long time ago...
OMG... i seriously almost gave up on soul stealer!! XD that is a scary thought. haha. lol.

[[deleted user]]

Batman Stories anyone?

[Kenzie]

YOU ALMOST GAVE UP ON IT!!! Sorry for using caps, I'm SHOCKED! It's SO good!

[Brigid ✩]

yeah XD. i wrote the first three chapters and then i didn't know what i wanted to happen, so being my easily-frustrated self i gave up and didn't start it again until like a month later, cuz u goodreads ppl helped me realize it had potential!! wow, i can't imagine that i might not have written it... so weird... XD

[Kenzie]

I know what you mean. If I hadn't decided to make a second book for Runaway I would have never written part two or part three.

[Brigid ✩]

whoa. XD it's so weird...

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

I have writer's block right now....UGH!

[[deleted user]]

ME too, and funny thing is, i'm stuck on both stories!
It's 10:00 right now, where's my inspiration?!

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

SAME! Both of them are stuck...and no place to go...urg....oh well intensive thinking time tonight.

[Brigid ✩]

i have writer's block on like... three out of five stories right now. lol. XD

[Brigid ✩]

lol. XD

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

Wow this discussion is so old...Brigid I was re-reading it, and I read the part where you told us about your idea for Moon Rise ;) and then I remembered when you just started Soul Stealer :D...good times, good times. XD

[Brigid ✩]

yeah... XD it's so weird to read all this!!! it feels like it's from SUCH a long time ago!!!

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

i know!!

[Kenzie]

Oh my Gosh! I was reading over it and I had asked for advice for Missing? Man, that story I wrote, it stinks. I really despise it now. It's like this story I wrote in fourth grade. I thought it was amazing at the time, but I look back on it and it sucked! I wrote crap! I wonder what I'll think of my writing now, in the future...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

Was that the one with the secret club and the detective?

[Brigid ✩]

haha. i know what u mean kenzie. i thought all the stuff i wrote in fourth grade was soooooo amazing, and when i read it now: OMG IT'S TOTAL CRAP!!! XD i wonder the same thing. will i think my writing sucks in the future? hmmmm...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

same here...

actually, that is starting to happen to me right now...when i started the morte i thought it was really good. now...im not so sure. there isnt much of a plot..she just almost dies and then escapes over and over again...i guess you can't do much with a horror/ghost story. well, most of them.

[Kenzie]

Yeah, Sella, that was the one. It was really stupid. -blushes deeply- I gave up on that one a long time ago, thank goodness. The funny thing is, even while I was writing it I was thinking about how stupid it sounded...

[Brigid ✩]

sella i really really liked the morte!!! i think we're all just overly critical of our own writing...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

oh...i guess...*shrugs*

[Brigid ✩]

like a lot of the time i'll read my stuff from fifth grade and be like, 'THIS SUCKS!' cuz yeah, my writing wasn't all that good. but if i think about it, some of my ideas weren't that bad though. sometimes i'll find like this ONE sentence that's really good, that just pops out of nowhere, and i'm like 'WHOA! i thought of that in fifth grade???'

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

I mainly wrote short stories in fifth grade, and I don't think they were too bad...then again, that was only about three years ago, so my writing style can't have changed too much...

[Brigid ✩]

yeah same. in fifth grade i just wrote short stories. except i also tried to write two novels, which both crashed and burned; they were TERRIBLE!! :P haha. idk, i think my writing style has changed a lot in the past few years. even in just, like, the past year...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

lol...yeah mine's changed a bit but not too much...well, i guess that's for someone else to say, not me...i can't really tell with my own writing...XD

[Brigid ✩]

right...

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

OMG SAME! I wrote this story in fifth grade...more like a short story but it was really weird and the character's didn't fit the plot nor setting. Plus my cursive sucked XP
Past writer's block on Search for the Rose Crown...still have it on Beyond the Gates....and lemme tell you writer's cramp hurts just as bad if not WORSE! XD

[Hannah]

i get the hating your writing thing too. grr its so annoying becasue you're like, 'wow this is good' but then you come back and are literally laughing at the horribleness of the piece. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

yeah. I did that with a piece of writing. I thought it was so great. I went back and read it a few weeks ago...and I was thinking 'Wow. this is hilarious. It's so completely random!'

But I would have to say that for 4th grade, it was pretty good. I mean, despite the randomness, I had pretty good grammar and it was an okay idea, even though it was partially taken from superman...

[Brigid ✩]

well i wrote a bunch of random little stories when i was a little kid, most of which weren't completed.
the first story i remember completing was in the beginning of fifth grade i think... it was called The Legend of Urnwok. It was about this cat that got transported to another world. Then there were all these other cats there and this girl who was a witch, and they all had to fight these evil creatures called the Unknown. XD It was a pretty dumb plot, but the writing was pretty good for a ten-year-old i think. haha. and at the time my friends and teachers said it was good... so maybe i'm just being overly critical of myself. idk.

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

Well, it probably was good-then. If you wrote it now, you may not get the same comments. But if you wrote it when you were ten, and people told you it was good, that means good for a ten-year-old...you know what I mean?

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

Yeah, that makes sense, Veronica.

The very first story I ever remember writing was this chick flick story that had absolutely no plot...basically it was just about this girl in high school who found out her boyfriend was cheating on her so she broke up with him and got revenge on him and his new girlfriend...omg, it was SO stupid!! it's kind of hilarious, now that i think about it...XD

then another one of my early stories was about this girl who got magic powers and has to fight this evil king but then gets them sucked out of her by this other evil lady...it was really weird...

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

My first story: The Princesses' Cat. The concept was good but this was a princess living in a town dealing with regular people with her cat that talks. The thing that I really hated about it was the villain...he did NOT make any sense at all! Plus his little brother had a stupid name XD

[Brigid ✩]

lol. XD
yeah, i know what u mean, veronica. if i wrote that story today, everyone would be like, 'uuuhhhh this sucks.' but since i wrote it when i was ten i guess it seemed better at the time. XD

[Rainy]

I know what you mean! Writers block is the worst. expeculatly when you are writing a great story