Writer's block

[Katie]

i HATE writer's block. UGH, i have the worst case of it; i started writing one story, i got stuck so i started another one and the chain continues. NOW i have THREE unfinshed STORIES. i am really in a pickle.

[Rainy]

you have it bad. Sorry. I have a new idea for a story but I can't put it together, this is worse than writers block.

[T.O.L.I.]

goodness, my first story wen i was 7 with my friend about these kids who get rapped on an island with dinosaurs

[Laina]

wow! I can't even read my first stories! I wrote them when I was about five... some were copies of book. All were written on computer paper in a green marker, stapled together. I illustrated them, too! My art hasn't improved much since then...

[T.O.L.I.]

hehe!

[[deleted user]]

I just went through and read some of my stories I wrote in like third grade, and I'd never realized how stupid they were!!

[Laina]

hehe. I'll read stories that I wrote as recently as sixth grade and cringe! But, at least I'm improving!!

[Brigid ✩]

yeahhh... i don't think i got really good at writing til around somewhere in seventh grade... all my stuff from before then is unbearable. lol. i read it and i'm like "seriously. where did i get such a dumb idea??" and all my characters were so BORING and ANNOYING! AAAH!! i always made my characters either too perfect, or too whiny. when i read my old writing i just wanna rip all the characters' heads off. lol. XD

[[deleted user]]

my good writing started in 6th.

[Brigid ✩]

eeeehhhh my writing was okay in sixth grade. i don't think i wrote as much, really. i don't even remember what i wrote. hmmmm i guess i started writing Destiny then... and some other stuff that crashed and burned. :P lol

[[deleted user]]

I started writing my book in 6th, but it was more the second book.

[T.O.L.I.]

O started writing my book in sixth still goin on it

[[deleted user]]

me too!! working on editing!! FYRE!!!!!
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1...

[Brigid ✩]

i guess i started The Chosen One in sixth grade, too. only it was a short story back then. despite the very cliché title, i thought the plot had potential, so i've rewritten it, like, three times, and i'm still working on lengthening it into a whole novel.... it's taken me four years so far, though... which is a longer time than it took me to write anything else that i've written. lol. :P

[T.O.L.I.]

my story is called hands.....but its not up

the other story i have (only the begining) is called white walls

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...

[Laina]

In sixth grade was when I wrote my first major story. I never finished it (i made the mistake of writing the end about half way through and got too depressed to finish) but it was an important mark in my writing. It was the first time I had created good characters. i still love the story and think it could be really good. It's actually revisted in a different book. : ) But my point is, without that story (that probably wasn't the very best but still okay) I never would've been able to write anything that I have written. If I hadn't gotten writers' block on that first story, I never would've written my first novel (in a week, too!)! So I love it and keep it close, realizing that it was a huge turning point. Myran is very near and dear to me. I still pull him out to "talk" to every now and then. Is that wierd to talk to past (dead) characters?

[Brigid ✩]

Hmmmm... idk. I never talk to my past characters. After I've finished writing their stories, it's like they're finally satisfied w/me and they stop bugging me. lol. and then some other new characters start popping into my head and taking their place. i do miss some of my past characters, once their stories are finished; and just bcuz they don't talk much to me anymore doesn't mean that i don't care about them--cuz i do!!! it's just that my head is sooo full of all the characters from my current stories that i don't often have time to think about characters from the past. if that makes sense. ;D

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

I just had the WORST WRITER'S BLOCK EVER! I was writing Beyond the Gates and this and that is happening and it's at a super suspenseful part AND I GET WRITER'S BLOCK! I AM SO MAAAAAD! >:(

[[deleted user]]

I'm sorry. . . anyway i'm past all my writers block, I'm done with my book!! I'm so happy I want to cry!!

[Brigid ✩]

yaay for you cali!! XD congrats!
hmmmm i have writer's block too... for two out of three stories. siiiigh

[[deleted user]]

sad, i'm sorry.

[Laina]

:) Writer's block is part of writing, no? haha... too bad it has to be so dang frustrating!

[[deleted user]]

I know. . .I just hate editing so much!! I personally think it's worse than writers block.

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

Me too!

BTW, I past the writer's block ^-^

[Laina]

haha... don't get me started on editing. It's the worse! Especially with writing as imperfect as mine. I write and write and write while I have ideas. My first draft is just to make sure I have all my possible ideas down. Then comes the cutting and the fixing and the crucifying... *sigh* my poor, poor characters.

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

Lol!
I felt bad for my character's last night...cause I had to stop RIGHT WHEN SOMEONE MIGHT DIE!

[Laina]

ooo i hate when that happens! The other day I stopped right as a house blew up. I did it on purpose, though. I figured then I might be able to keep it fresh in my mind if I was worried about it. :)

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

Lol!

[Laina]

i had a teacher who once told me that you should never stop at the end of the sentence. You should never complete the last one you write if you're done with the project. I don't go that extreme, but I always try to leave myself on a cliffhanger.

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

I like leaving my readers on a cliffhanger like cut to the next scene in the most suspenseful place it's fun XD

[Laina]

haha yes. I only do that either at the beginning or towards the end, though. when i want the suspence level high. During the middle i try to keep going on curiosity and intrigue.

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

Yeah. Cliff hangers are fun to write ^-^

[Laina]

haha. i love when you read those books and a chapter ends and you've told yourself "after this chapter i have to go to bed!" and then it's a total cliffhanger!

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

I know! Or you finish a chapter and the teacher says 'Okay time to stop reading'

[Laina]

ooo i hate it! well i've g2g. see ya!

[Xerxes Break(Vivian Ephona)]

Bye bye!

[[deleted user]]

I love cliffhangers. my first book hangs on one, and I just finished it, i'm so happy. I already have the first 2 chapters of the second book written.

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

Hmmmm... idk. I never talk to my past characters. After I've finished writing their stories, it's like they're finally satisfied w/me and they stop bugging me. lol. and then some other new characters start popping into my head and taking their place. i do miss some of my past characters, once their stories are finished; and just bcuz they don't talk much to me anymore doesn't mean that i don't care about them--cuz i do!!! it's just that my head is sooo full of all the characters from my current stories that i don't often have time to think about characters from the past. if that makes sense. ;D

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brigid, i can't say that i'm so lucky. i finished the morte; yet holly still bugs me. grr. she's SO annoying. lol. but i guess it really is my fault for creating her that way. XD

[Brigid ✩]

haha. yes, i suppose... XD well, my characters sometimes stay in my head for just a few days after i finish their story, just cuz i'm so used to having them there, and it makes my life feel so empty w/o them... lol. XD but they leave eventually... and stop by every once in a while...
uh-oh. eva's here and she's still mad at me!!! AAAAH!!! i think i better start running... XD

[Laina]

haha! I think my characters learn from each other. Sometimes they're even obstinate enough to sneak to a different story? Have you ever had that moment when two ideas that have been running around in your head uncompleted, and BAM! Suddenly they collide and you start singing, "Oh happy day!!" Haha.... that happens quite a bit. Which is why I let a story mull around in my head for quite a while before I start writing. I keep hoping that it will find its match... *sigh* it's not working for this one at the moment...

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

RUN, BRIGID, RUN!!!!

lol...I think I recall us having this conversation once before...deja vu?? lol XD

[Brigid ✩]

yeah this happens quite often. XD lol.
hmmm it's mostly just eva that bothers me, though. david doesn't so much; i guess he's more forgiving. lol. ;D

[Laina]

haha. my character (that still keeps me company... maybe because i haven't really finished his story because i don't have the heart to do it completely...) is the one who told me what his fate was. he's accepted it, i just don't know that I have. he's my one na donly true love that i'll never forget. : )

[Brigid ✩]

ah, yes. i too develop crushes on many of my male characters... right now i have, like, two or three. two and a half maybe. tee hee.

[Kenzie]

Not me, I try not to get crushes on my own characters 'cause when I have to kill them, or hurt them -grimace- it tears me up inside. But I know they're good if my sister or a close friend falls for them!

[Brigid ✩]

oh yeah i know what u mean! i totally abuse my characters sometimes; especially the ones i have crushes on, ironically. :-/ there must be something totally wrong w/me. XD lol. not that i like doing it; i hate it!! it hurts!!! :( but that's always the way it ends up... my stupid twisted mind...
uuuuhhhh yeah so i get pretty major crushes on some of my own characters. hee hee. idk what other ppl think...? do any of u guyz think any of my characters are hot? or is it just me? XD

[Michelle]

gah. i have writers block in everything. i havent written the other side of the world since may, and now its august. im pathetic.

i always have a plan for my characters. like i write the ending before i even start the beginning, or even aware that its okay writing material. but for some of my stories, i have a very vague idea of what the ending is, or how they're gonna get there.

for fake secret, i have three alternatives mapped out, and i dont know which one to chose. gah!! this is gonna take forever.

[[deleted user]]

idk what to do with my writing, right now, i'm even debating if I should actually get my book published. . . or if I should wait until i'm older.

[Michelle]

well, when im writing i just take the readers into consideration, whether i plan to publish or not, as my teachers are a bit curious to see my writing skills, or lack therof, whatever their opinion happens to be.

[Brigid ✩]

hahahaha.
u think luke is cool? idk, for some reason i don't have much of an obsession over luke. i mean, i like him; yeah i guess he is pretty cool. he's just kinda stupid sometimes. XD
as for david... okay well he's pretty hot. for a fictional character. XD although he has a lot of issues, and he's sort of, um, suicidal. which is kind of a huge problem...