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What steals your Mojo?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on November 05, 2009, 04:20:47 PM ---Work. I have to get creative with problem solving, and it taxes my brain.
Taxes, I saw.
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Yeah, that's my other problem. Work. And life in general. It keeps intruding.
Quantus:
well, 1) it takes me a bit to get the mojo flowing, so I have to really sit down and devote time to the project, get in the mindset and all that. Its not so much something I can just do for an hour after work. 2) I get stuck on the details too much. Spending all my time in research and back story and ensuring that I have the details of the world in place that I forget to actually get to the story. I dont know how many settings i have with no central story to tell in them. I always seem to wnat to get it perfect on the first pass, and so I get stuck in preparation and never get to the actual writing (theres a proverb and a life lesson in there somewhere) 3) Im a horrible note taker, so most of my works are still locked in my brain, without so much as an actual existing outline for me to reference.
Getting past 2 and 3 will go along way to alleviating 1, but so far Ive had little luck. I really need to just stfu and just start writing until page one becomes page two.
Kali:
Telling someone about the story, the plot. Or outlining it. Once I have, in any form, told the story I lose all interest in writing it. It's told, it's out of me, I'm done.
I can share the stuff I've already got down, but if I talk about where I want it to go, it's over. I won't feel like writing it anymore.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Quantus on November 05, 2009, 05:31:55 PM ---2) I get stuck on the details too much. Spending all my time in research and back story and ensuring that I have the details of the world in place that I forget to actually get to the story. I dont know how many settings i have with no central story to tell in them. I always seem to wnat to get it perfect on the first pass, and so I get stuck in preparation and never get to the actual writing (theres a proverb and a life lesson in there somewhere) 3) Im a horrible note taker, so most of my works are still locked in my brain, without so much as an actual existing outline for me to reference.
Getting past 2 and 3 will go along way to alleviating 1, but so far Ive had little luck. I really need to just stfu and just start writing until page one becomes page two.
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What works for me with this is to just write and not worry about worldbuilding until I get about 20-30 pages in and things start to sound like drivel. Then I do the world building and get more of an idea of where the story is going and then go from there.
--- Quote from: Kali on November 05, 2009, 05:38:20 PM ---Telling someone about the story, the plot. Or outlining it. Once I have, in any form, told the story I lose all interest in writing it. It's told, it's out of me, I'm done.
I can share the stuff I've already got down, but if I talk about where I want it to go, it's over. I won't feel like writing it anymore.
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I have this. Any clue how to explain it to someone who doesn't? My b/f thinks I'm going to lose ideas because I don't write them down soon as I have them, and even when he's seen this problem, says the same thing.
mightyutuvan:
I try to explain it as my story has an energy that is used in the writing of it and talking about it steals that energy. I just quit talking about it. "I am on chapter ##" is pretty much all I will share.
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