Sorry for the long rant. I just feel that I'm alone in this sort of problem.
My story has a big chunk of it that, presently, I have just as scenes. But I have no idea what to do with them. I don’t know what they’re for. I see no point in them but to entertain and punch the characters around.
The first part of the story I have pretty much worked out, but the second part, where events start spanning days and weeks without much happening, I just don’t know what to do. I’m not trying to put down every single day but things just don’t seem to flow naturally.
The scenes I have would be very entertaining if I was able to write well. But in between those scenes I have almost nothing. I have stuff like "volcano explodes, they run, X saves Y, they realize they really do depend on each other" and then… I don’t know how to go on. Am I going to jump to another crazy scene? What sort of conflict can come about that isn’t extreme? What sort of social interaction could they have that could entertain the reader, and make the reader believe that that sort of interaction between the characters could keep them busy for days, until another crazy thing happens? It’s the in between that I… *grabs hair*.
These scenes are really just stuff that happens to the characters. It’s stuff that happens to them, which they cannot control (I feel that my problem lies there. I can’t explain it well.) There really isn’t much coming out of the characters. And when there is, I find myself wondering seriously why the reader would even bother wanting to know why a characters reacts this way and why it’s conflicting. Do they really need to know the history of the city from where they come from? No….but then what am I going to make the characters talk about? I feel that I’ll run out of things to say if I dont' bring about little historical events from the city they come from. It’s a long walk that they’re doing!
And if I just keep the reader with them, and never mention the city, I would have to come up with 1 million curious scenes and dialogs. It’s insane!
The events that could be provoked by the characters, I find them really hard to create, but I do create them and I’m proud of a lot of them. teh majority has been created for that first part, inside the city.
I guess I’m a plot based writer.
The situations are unusual. Not boring, but unusual.
I guess I don’t know my characters well enough to make this process easy. But how do you make that easy???
I have character histories and I know their past and I do understand how they would react to this or that. I can sort of write down how they would react to these extreme events. I even undersatnd when people say, you don't have to impersonate a character, you have to embody it.
What’s annoying me is the middle parts. It’s what’s in between those Big events.
The sort of experiences my characters go through are insane and extreme and they take the characters to their limits, as they would any human being!
I just find it hard to think of how to make long walks not boring, sitting in front of my computer.
If I skip them it’s just insane event after insane event. It just looks unrealistic and too fast for the sort of story I want to write.
How would I slow down without boring the reader? I just find it laughable that I sort of have to have a Scene-Sequel-Scene-Sequel of their stroll on landscapes. What sort of conflict can arise there? What sort of event that isn’t extreme can make the characters have dillemas and inner struggles? I’m not going to bore the reader with my characters urinating and having a chat while they walk. Why would the reader want to read that? But that IS the sort of stuff that you would get on an expedition, lots of walking and talking. I feel that the sort of stuff the characters talked about would be boring and I feel that the readers wouldn’t read the history of these characters' city, for example.
They would read for the big events. The history of their city, especially the origins, is a mystery, so how am I going to deal with that? The city isn’t even the main thing in this book.
And the characters are scientists, am I going to talk about science? I sure could, I love science and I could try to explain this or that, and try to show a scientific mind at work, but, that’s when the reader would close the book. How can I do these middle scenes without being repetitive, and overfeeding the reader with extreme events or unbelievable interactions between characters? How can the characters alone, entertain the reader? I do try to make them as different as possible, so their interactions are curious and interesting.
ACK!
Am I just aiming too high?
I guess I’m going through a low phase at the moment.
This is what I get for trying to write something that I can’t find anywhere else. Then I have nothing to hold on to guide me.
Trying to be original is hard.
So that’s why writers copy each other !!!!!
My story has a big chunk of it that, presently, I have just as scenes. But I have no idea what to do with them. I don’t know what they’re for. I see no point in them but to entertain and punch the characters around.
The first part of the story I have pretty much worked out, but the second part, where events start spanning days and weeks without much happening, I just don’t know what to do. I’m not trying to put down every single day but things just don’t seem to flow naturally.
The scenes I have would be very entertaining if I was able to write well. But in between those scenes I have almost nothing. I have stuff like "volcano explodes, they run, X saves Y, they realize they really do depend on each other" and then… I don’t know how to go on. Am I going to jump to another crazy scene? What sort of conflict can come about that isn’t extreme? What sort of social interaction could they have that could entertain the reader, and make the reader believe that that sort of interaction between the characters could keep them busy for days, until another crazy thing happens? It’s the in between that I… *grabs hair*.
These scenes are really just stuff that happens to the characters. It’s stuff that happens to them, which they cannot control (I feel that my problem lies there. I can’t explain it well.) There really isn’t much coming out of the characters. And when there is, I find myself wondering seriously why the reader would even bother wanting to know why a characters reacts this way and why it’s conflicting. Do they really need to know the history of the city from where they come from? No….but then what am I going to make the characters talk about? I feel that I’ll run out of things to say if I dont' bring about little historical events from the city they come from. It’s a long walk that they’re doing!
And if I just keep the reader with them, and never mention the city, I would have to come up with 1 million curious scenes and dialogs. It’s insane!
The events that could be provoked by the characters, I find them really hard to create, but I do create them and I’m proud of a lot of them. teh majority has been created for that first part, inside the city.
I guess I’m a plot based writer.
The situations are unusual. Not boring, but unusual.
I guess I don’t know my characters well enough to make this process easy. But how do you make that easy???
I have character histories and I know their past and I do understand how they would react to this or that. I can sort of write down how they would react to these extreme events. I even undersatnd when people say, you don't have to impersonate a character, you have to embody it.
What’s annoying me is the middle parts. It’s what’s in between those Big events.
The sort of experiences my characters go through are insane and extreme and they take the characters to their limits, as they would any human being!
I just find it hard to think of how to make long walks not boring, sitting in front of my computer.
If I skip them it’s just insane event after insane event. It just looks unrealistic and too fast for the sort of story I want to write.
How would I slow down without boring the reader? I just find it laughable that I sort of have to have a Scene-Sequel-Scene-Sequel of their stroll on landscapes. What sort of conflict can arise there? What sort of event that isn’t extreme can make the characters have dillemas and inner struggles? I’m not going to bore the reader with my characters urinating and having a chat while they walk. Why would the reader want to read that? But that IS the sort of stuff that you would get on an expedition, lots of walking and talking. I feel that the sort of stuff the characters talked about would be boring and I feel that the readers wouldn’t read the history of these characters' city, for example.
They would read for the big events. The history of their city, especially the origins, is a mystery, so how am I going to deal with that? The city isn’t even the main thing in this book.
And the characters are scientists, am I going to talk about science? I sure could, I love science and I could try to explain this or that, and try to show a scientific mind at work, but, that’s when the reader would close the book. How can I do these middle scenes without being repetitive, and overfeeding the reader with extreme events or unbelievable interactions between characters? How can the characters alone, entertain the reader? I do try to make them as different as possible, so their interactions are curious and interesting.
ACK!
Am I just aiming too high?
I guess I’m going through a low phase at the moment.
This is what I get for trying to write something that I can’t find anywhere else. Then I have nothing to hold on to guide me.
Trying to be original is hard.
So that’s why writers copy each other !!!!!
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