How do you generate a constant stream of the mental images needed as forerunners to the words you write?
How is it that for some people the words apparently just keep flowing, while for others, at one point or another the well seems to run dry?
As one example, I’d been messing about with a story for two years, wrote forty thousand words - with the intention of at least doubling it - and then ran out of ideas. I know some people might reply that this type of thing happens to other people too, but what do you do when you cast about for another, replacement story, start writing, and history then repeats itself?
Comments would be appreciated from those to whom this has happened, either once or on multiple occasions, and who have discovered an answer. Thank you.
How is it that for some people the words apparently just keep flowing, while for others, at one point or another the well seems to run dry?
As one example, I’d been messing about with a story for two years, wrote forty thousand words - with the intention of at least doubling it - and then ran out of ideas. I know some people might reply that this type of thing happens to other people too, but what do you do when you cast about for another, replacement story, start writing, and history then repeats itself?
Comments would be appreciated from those to whom this has happened, either once or on multiple occasions, and who have discovered an answer. Thank you.