Writer’s block?
Hello,
I've just decided to write a new book, but I'm already stuck at the prologue. The idea, the plot, and the progression, as well as all the characters, are already so well developed that I'm happy with them. But now I just can't get it written.
Does anyone have any tips on how to overcome writer's block?
I want to be honest with you: “Writing blockades” are a myth.
If a doctor doesn’t know, he doesn’t have a “patient treatment blockade”. If a teacher doesn’t know what to do in class today, he doesn’t have a “instruction blockade”. Both a doctor and a teacher will continue their work even if they are not completely satisfied with what they do.
Consider writing as what it is in truth: the work of an author. If you don’t write, you won’t move. Therefore, you should do the following things to continue:
1. Stop talking to you that you have a record blockade. You do not think about the real problem, but about the not existing result.
Two. Identify the real problem. What is it that you don’t get anything on paper?
a) Is it because you didn’t think about the prologue?
b) Is it because you don’t like what you write as well as you had imagined?
c) Is the problem perhaps that you will correct too much, and at the end of the day maybe even delete everything you wrote?
d) Is it something completely different?
3. If you know the problem, don’t worry. For the above problems, the following approaches would be:
a) Plan the prologue, like the plot, and decide what to stand here.
(b) That’s normal. With the first version, i.e. bringing it to paper on first, no author is really satisfied. That’s why you don’t have to worry. This comes in the reworking phase.
c) Let the written stand. Even if you prefer to throw it into the ton. It’s better to have something than an empty side.
d) Search for a suitable solution, instead of ignoring the problem.
4. Look forward to writing. Especially on the exciting chapters and scenes you like. You’ll be there soon. You just have to write on.
Finally, a final tip from me: don’t stop writing. Finish it either in the middle or at the beginning. So if you should reach the end of a scene or chapter, write the first set of the next chapter or the next scene och. Then it will make you feel the next day in your fingers. I personally am also very radical to myself: I put a timer on 25 minutes. As soon as he rings, I stop. Yes, even in the middle of the sentence. I may end the current word and then I will stop. It annoys me every time. Just when I have a really great set in my head, but I know what it does: The next day, I’ll keep going. I have to. This sentence has not yet been completed.
Long speech short sense: find out what blocks you and do what is necessary to solve this blockade.
A friend of mine who writes says that this is normal, and that you will help put the book on the side for a while and instead make writing exercises alone or in the workshop. But I guess everyone has their own recipe.