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Tips for the Unmotivated

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Murphy's Stunt Double:
A friend of mine highly advocates the use of notebooks. Get the jist of the new story down and go back to it later. Don't let yourself lose focus on what you're halfway through.

Trust me, I know from experience and stacks of unfinished stories.

Adam:
Working through the sluggish middle section now.  Pushing through the lack of motivation due to just wanting to get to the end.  And I find that as I just keep pushing ahead, sometimes my brain helps out and produces some groovy stuff.  Like I'm typing away, paragraph by paragraph, and then I'll read what I just typed and think "Yeah, that's a good idea and fits well".  My brain springs these little surprrises on me.  it's like my brain has this big meaningful plot all worked out ahead of time, and only lets me know about it a ltitle piece at a time as I go along.  Stupid secretive brain.

Adam:
My protagonist was just disembowelled.  Mwahahahaha!  There's some motivation to keep writing, to see where it leads.  :)

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Adam on May 12, 2008, 06:37:08 PM ---Working through the sluggish middle section now.  Pushing through the lack of motivation due to just wanting to get to the end.  And I find that as I just keep pushing ahead, sometimes my brain helps out and produces some groovy stuff.  Like I'm typing away, paragraph by paragraph, and then I'll read what I just typed and think "Yeah, that's a good idea and fits well".  My brain springs these little surprrises on me.  it's like my brain has this big meaningful plot all worked out ahead of time, and only lets me know about it a ltitle piece at a time as I go along.  Stupid secretive brain.

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Mine does that too, all the time.  Which can be a bit irksome, really, because I get to where I thought I was ready to start tying things up into the end, and I have half a dozen extra things I'd not realised I was going to need to resolve by that point.

SailorYue:
theres nothing more satisfying than satisfied readers.

[i know this for afact, i LOVE getting good fanfic reviews.]
just call me SailorYue from NewJersey
[it's pronounced U-ay]

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