Writers Block...

By ObsessedImagination · May 20, 2009 · 817 · 6
  1. Don't you just HATE writers block?

    I had this fantastic story, all planned out. I had my blueprint and my itty-bitty notebook full of my important characters.

    Seven pages in....and I'm out. I have nothing more to give the story. I'm bored. If I, the writer, am bored with my own work, how can I expect anyone to read it without falling asleep?

    So now I'm sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen and waiting for a novel to type itself out. What a sad little world I am sitting in...

    I have read so many other people's work on the Forum in the last couple of days, and reviewed a few of them too. What fantastic writers you guys are!

    I think that's what stumped me. My work sounds like an 8 year old with ADHD wrote it while on a sugar rush....it makes no sense to me any more.

    Well I think now that my fingers have finally started moving across the keyboard, I might open a fresh page in Word and see what happens...

    Night all! :cool:

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  1. heykellyj
    I go through this with every story I write. I get really amped up about it, start mapping it out and creating the characters - even commiting their personalities to paper - but then, midway through the first section or chapter, I suddenly can't continue. I don't know what to say. I don't know where to go. And, usually, I stop because I just don't think what I have to say even matters.

    I've discovered a solution, however - write it anyway. Keep hashing things out, and see where you go. If you don't like something, you can always rewrite it.

    I'm a big fan of writing a story, walking away from it, and then coming back a few months or even years later and reworking it. You'd be surprised how easy it is to write something after you took some time away from it. You get all kinds of new ideas, and your writing always needs improvement, so there's nothing wrong with revisiting.

    Don't think about what you're writing, just write. You can change it later. Plus, getting unbiased feedback can help wonders, too.
    heykellyj, May 20, 2009
  2. ObsessedImagination
    Thanks heykellyj!

    I re-read it after I posted this blog and I found that I actually do like the story, and I will keep writing it. Because, like you said, I can always go back and re-write parts of it if I don't like them.

    I need to remind myself that when I type it's not set in stone, and I can go back and delete things or add things to my story!

    Thank you for your reply! =D
    ObsessedImagination, May 21, 2009
  3. soujiroseta
    I know exactly how you feel. Although when i stop writing i tend to give up on it for good. When i find the story again months afterwards i can't help but weep at the appalling writing that came out of my head. heykellyj has a good solution there which has worked for me before. I suppose in a way its good to never satisfied with one's own work. Drives you towards perfecting it until you are ever so slightly contented.

    Don't worry though, you're not alone:)
    soujiroseta, May 21, 2009
  4. soujiroseta
    I know exactly how you feel. Although when i stop writing i tend to give up on it for good. When i find the story again months afterwards i can't help but weep at the appalling writing that came out of my head. heykellyj has a good solution there which has worked for me before. I suppose in a way its good to never satisfied with one's own work. Drives you towards perfecting it until you are ever so slightly contented.

    Don't worry though, you're not alone:)
    soujiroseta, May 21, 2009
  5. soujiroseta
    I know exactly how you feel. Although when i stop writing i tend to give up on it for good. When i find the story again months afterwards i can't help but weep at the appalling writing that came out of my head. heykellyj has a good solution there which has worked for me before. I suppose in a way its good to never satisfied with one's own work. Drives you towards perfecting it until you are ever so slightly contented.

    Don't worry though, you're not alone:)
    soujiroseta, May 21, 2009
  6. Tall and Weird
    Ah, the curse of the seven pages... I know it depressingly well.
    Tall and Weird, May 26, 2009
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