You are facing a blank wall and can't get the old word generator to start. How do you get past this obstacle and get your imagination back in gear?
Yoel
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Author of "The Legacy" a 2006 NaNoWriMo Winner
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Nov 7, 2007 - 09 40 |
You are facing a blank wall and can't get the old word generator to start. How do you get past this obstacle and get your imagination back in gear? Yoel |
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Nov 7, 2007 - 15 13
Last year I was lucky enough to have a novel with two or three story lines going at the same time, so when I would get stuck on one I would simply pick one of the others.
This year my novel is more linear, which is a big challenge for me.
So when I get stuck, I let my characters muck about a little. They go to the library to look for a book, then talk about the Dewey system, then Tom takes the elevator up to the roof to have a smoke and watch dirigibles, which turns out to be a great opportunity for him to have a revelatory talk with Max, while Jeremy's downstairs, and suddenly the plot is back in full gear.
And then there's the times when nothing helps. I'm a great fan of "nulla dies sine linea". In these cases, I will write a single sentence and let it rest. Sometimes I will come back an hour later and that line will naturally flow into a thousand words. Sometimes that's all I'm going to write for the day. So be it.
Hope this gives others some ideas.
----------If nothing else, I hope someone else decides to include dirigibles in their novel. Never met a story that didn't benefit from a zeppelin. :)
"If you wish to be a writer... write!" -Epictetus
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Nov 8, 2007 - 05 02
Readin fanfics, Mag7 espcially...
I need some great story to lit it again.
Or update a weekly story (so far 27 chapters, 33k and counting... LOTR story, called - "Broken Spirit")
*Hugs*
Sivan Shemesh
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Nov 8, 2007 - 13 46
Going for a walk, annoying my cats, cooking—all help. Somethign I've also tried when i get stuck because i can't think of what is going to happen next is to start writing a counterfactual, all in negative. At somepoint a sentence of explanation comes along saying what did happen instead and then off we go.