I resolve to write my crime novel every day. Everything's plotted out, yet I just stare at the screen. Do you have any ideas how I can get back into the flow? 🙂
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If you still stare at the first “empty sheet”, then try to free yourself from the pressure that the entry is most important. Kind of start until you’re in the flow. You can discard and replace the beginning later. Walther Moers gives a hint about his main character in a book to write the sentence “Here the story begins.” And then write on. I want to look like a spell:D
But if I understand it correctly, you’ll keep stuck in the book. Then you may be in a place you have plotted but you do not know how to fill. One example: The actor must run the road to the village for 5 hours. Something has to happen, something has to be described. But you don’t think of anything exciting. Usually it doesn’t want to be so right with writing, because the part doesn’t care about you and if he doesn’t care about you, then he will also be uninteresting for the reader. In the example, the eruption is described. Then, new picture. > The water was so cool and pleasant. He had simply set himself in the village trench and ignored the partly striking views of the passing locals. He had walked to this place for five hours, and Sarah was no help. On the way, they almost hadn’t spoken and now she had beaten herself into the bushes without words. If it takes time… < Just as an example. The boring journey is packed and can be described with a few words. Old Rule: If you don't care about part of your book, it doesn't matter to the reader. So leave, summarize and go to the place that interests you again.
Maybe your mood doesn’t fit. You’re not good at it and your actor is at a great party and has the best time of his life. Then it won’t work. Skippe the part, put a place where your main character has bad mood or everything goes wrong. And if you’re good again, go back to the place where you stuck.
Also likely: You make yourself quite pressure. You’ve done writing every day, but you don’t want to. Maybe you don’t even want to admit it yourself. Let it go! You can’t force it. So stay calm, every day, okay. But everyone needs vacation and you take a week vacation from the intent.
Maybe something helpful was there. The “Horror Vacui”, the fear of the empty sheet that meets every time.
I don’t think you can force that. And I think that’s what every author does. Either the inspiration comes – or she doesn’t come. And sometimes there’s so much that you can’t write it up at the same time – right? That’s art.
Maybe in which you take the pressure out with writing, and look for a bit of exercise or sporting activities for your stressful everyday life to focus on it, then the ideas come back by themselves. Like I said, take the pressure out
With me this is so I am a real leseratte and write very many stories and fanfictions
And then if I have no more bock, or a record blockade, then I read and at some point come the ideas and you have the right bock again
Some people help if the screen is not completely empty. So, maybe you just put a couple of times on the buttons so you have a few lines of chewing catfish. Or copy such a placeholder text as ‘lorem ipsum’.
Or, just write a word. A very classic start of the sentence. The name of the main character, a ‘one morning’ or something. Don’t have to stay like that forever. If you are no longer at the beginning, then a ‘then’ would be a good first word.
I’m at the last chapters of the first part of a series. :
Maybe it helps here if you just write a sentence?
It’s so cool that you pulled this through, so far I’ve never come. Respect
Do you have a fabric collection?
Then take out an idea and work it out.
And then the next etc.
And at some point you can put these building blocks together.