I think I need a permission to write at all certificate. Stapled to my forehead.
Sounds too painful (unless that's the tone you're hoping for in your writing).
This should cheer you up. You must write better than those folks!
I think I need a permission to write at all certificate. Stapled to my forehead.
This should cheer you up. You must write better than those folks!
Uncle Jim, pardon me but wtf? How do I get past this impasse? Don't say, Just write the damn thing. If I could do that, I wouldn't be asking your opinion, kind sir.
This is the opening scene of my novel: two little kids squatting on the grass, watching a worm. One's 3-1/2, his brother is 8. It ain't no exciting action/adventure, Uncle Jim. The younger one has 'episodes' wherein he channels bad people doing bad things. I kind of know what's going to happen at the end. I have the beginning written. Up to Cpt. 9.
LBlankenship: If you know how it begins and you know how it ends, then what are all the logical things that have to happen so that the ending doesn't look like you pulled it out of your butt?
It's your story; Uncle Jim can't tell you what the "right" steps are.
Thirdly, I'm not asking the omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent Uncle Jim to write my novel for me. I'm asking him how I can get myself moving. I'm asking how to climb over the hump, which seems vast and insurmountable. Maybe it's just me. Probably is. But this is a new and rather unpleasant state of affairs, for which I seem to have no immediate remedy, hence my question for the wise Uncle Jim.
Putputt, you're killing me. In a good way. I can implement your C*KSUCKING PLAN along with Uncle Jim's suggestions. I do believe they are simpatico.Putputt: 1. Okay, so right now they're stuck at this point, with nobody knowing nothing goddammit.
2. Okay, so MC is doing this...I think he'll do this other thing OMG THEN WHAT I HATE YOU, YOU C*CKSUCKER and then I think this happens.
3. In the meantime, this other character is going to do this THEN WHAT AHHHHH
4. And then this other character does this (oh that might work...tie that in with #3?)
Ermm, and so on and so forth. And yeah, write down your thoughts as well. I wrote down my thoughts in caps just so I know it's not actually part of the outline and can easily delete it later on, but it helps to keep typing. Before I knew it, I'd outlined myself out of the rut and was ready to continue.
So what's the remedy, Uncle Jim? I'm not really stuck because the story will be complete but shorter than I was expecting.
Uncle Jim: Now, go write one page (250 words) of original prose. Come back and tell me when you've done it.
Go, you!
Now... do it again!
Fingers moving on keyboard ... counts.
The second draft is gonna be hell, though.
In addition to the usual sage advice of "just don't do that," a few small strategies come to mind:However, it's more so keeping them on the page, if that makes sense, i.e. stopping myself from hitting "Backspace" or clicking "Do Not Save". Everything I think up or try to write is usually poor executed or planned out, and thus, I find myself getting into road block easier or at least confusing the backstory already in the first chapter. Things like this happen to me a lot. I mean a lot.