Overcome writer's block/Develop a good plot?
I've been writing for a year and a half now, and I think I'm improving. However, I can't seem to get it right anymore.
It's hard to explain but I have the idea and a vision, but when I write it out I think it's nonsense.
And I also have trouble creating a common thread or making the story realistic.
I also want to make my characters realistic but it's somehow so uncomfortable to write, even though I wrote a lot just a week ago (which I then abandoned).
What can I do?
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I would recommend you to work out the idea first. I would define the first starting situation and goal in more detail. Then bring the ideas you already have for the middle part into a meaningful order. This is often enough to sort your own mess in your head. And then you might think about what might happen in between to create a connection and a realistic pacing.
If you don’t get on with this, you’ll deal with your characters first, starting with the protagonist. Who is the figure? What did she experience before the start of the plot? What does she look like? What character properties does she have? What does she like? What can she do? What important characters are in their environment (family, friends, partners, affaires, enemies, rivals,…) and how is the relationship and why? What is she afraid of? What is important to her in life? What values does it represent? What does she want? The list could still be continued.
It is best to make a character arc for this purpose. This is also free to download if you don’t want to make yourself the trouble to create one, for example here.
The same thing you do with the antagonist and other important figures that play a greater role in history.
This has the advantage that, when filling, it is necessary to deal more closely with the figure, which should prevent it from becoming a one-dimensional/flat. How detailed one fills such a character arc can vary greatly, but this is also more secondary.
Planning often helps when writing doesn’t want to be so round.
And if that doesn’t help, write up the idea and let it lie first. The last spark that sometimes just doesn’t want to skip often comes quite unexpectedly.
At any rate, there’s nothing to be stiffened and to crawl something together, which will not feel satisfactory anyway.
Ps.: Never delete things you wrote, even if they happen to you in the moment as the greatest murks. With a bit of distance you look a lot different and it might be quite possible that you are using old ideas or whole text excerpts from old chapters again.
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Great tips, great!