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Getting Started and Chapter Titles
shades of grey:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on May 14, 2011, 06:27:31 PM ---I never know if I've stalled because of writer's block, or if the stall is indicative of a plot line that won't hold a reader in the long run. Should you cut and run? Should you persevere? Only experience has the answer, I suspect.
Maybe betas would be helpful? Let you know if they are invested in going further? But, then, haven't you already answered that yourself, when the author can't find the interest to go forward? Maybe we should go back in the work, in order to find the place where the extraordinary turned boring and fix it?
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I just get lost. I almost get too many ideas and can't decide, then can't settle to sitting and writing. That's why I've invested a lot of time in my story arcs.
LizW65:
Opinions differ greatly as to whether one should outline or not; I tend to get totally lost if I don't have at least a general idea of where I want to go and how to get there.
Quantus:
I tend toward a much more top down approach to my writing, mostly because the hobby branched out of RPG writing where other people take care of little details like characters. Ill have an immensely detailed world and/or mythology, or I can make a complex and rounded character to fit into somebody else's world, and Im golden. Ask me to do both, and I fall apart. So for me I find outlining to be very useful, because I tend to plot out a rough story path, then work out a list of actual scenes Ill need, and then try to come back fill them in. But its very rarely a linear process.
As far as motivation, the best I have found (and what I lack currently) is a writing partner, or at least a steady sounding board. I find it a lot harder to procrastinate if I know somebody is wanting/expecting some kind of progress. Not to mention they can be invaluable for workign through the story itself.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 18, 2011, 05:42:33 PM ---... Ill have an immensely detailed world and/or mythology, or I can make a complex and rounded character to fit into somebody else's world, and Im golden. Ask me to do both, and I fall apart.
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Quantus...I rather doubt this. Perhaps for a short time, but I doubt for very long before you are fitting the pieces together.
Where the h*** is neuro???
Thaumaturge02:
Another question: in your manuscripts, do you guys type double-spaced or single?
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