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Hello, I would like to become an author and already have a lot of story ideas, but I almost never manage to get started or write more than one or two pages. I enjoy it, but there are often times when I just don't know how to continue, so I stop and postpone it. Do you have any ideas how I can change this?
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Oh, the famous writing blockade – the final opponent of all incoming authors! 😅 But don’t worry, I have some tips for you that could help you defeat this blockade boss:
1. First write, then think:
Let the inner critic just stand out. Don’t write, even if it’s nonsense. If necessary, your main character can drink a coffee or discuss it with a cat – this often brings you back to the flow.
Two. Make it exciting for you:
If you don’t know what’s going on, ask yourself, “What would the crazy thing happen now?” Maybe a UFO crashes into the scene or a talking squirrel delivers a message. Everything is allowed as long as you can write on.
3. Cliffhanger for yourself:
Be aware of what happens next. That’s how you want to rewrite because you want to know how it goes.
4. Small steps also include:
One side per day is complete. These are at the end 365 pages a year – enough for a bestseller! And if it’s just a paragraph, it’s okay.
And most importantly, write for you. No one reads your draft, so he can be a little chaotic. A lot of success – you can do it! And remember, every great novel started with the first chaotic idea.
The ding sit is at the moment I know what comes next, but find the place boring and don’t want to write it, but I can’t let it out
Your text doesn’t sound like a record blockade for me, but rather than a real idea for a story.
Most beginners authors make the mistake that they simply write on it when they have the touch of an idea. In most cases, however, only a superficial basic setting is present at this time. That means they know such things as: “Anyone comes new to the class and gets to know a person she falls in love with.” “Anyone learns that he has magical powers and has to fight against evil.” This is a beginning, but there is still a great deal to do with a story. For example, there is never a main conflict in the examples.
If my guess is true and you just write on it, I would recommend working out your idea before writing so that you already know more about the action than just the basic setting. At least sketch the sequence of your story beforehand, so that you can hang along a red thread while writing out. But you can also go so far that in the end your story is actually finished and it just has to be put into words.
If you don’t have a strategy to work out, you’ll only be moving your problem. I always find it helpful to ask myself specific questions. This sounds stupid, but you consciously direct your thoughts in one direction. For example, with the “Man falls in love” setting, I would first ask myself what is the goal of my main person. Probably they’re a happy couple. To make a story from it, there must be something that prevents the two from, for example, hostile families, an existing partner or mental problems with the main person. From these superficial questions, you can go more and more into detail. In the case of mental problems, for example, I would think about where my main person has, then research into the disease and think about a corresponding prehistory.
I also find it important to write my preliminary work clearly. All the planning doesn’t help if I don’t look through it in the end. For example, I like to use Mindmaps for collecting ideas and for figures and places I create a database. Before I start writing out, I’ll write down the story.
I helped the 10-minute technique. You write everything down without a break. And only after that is corrected.