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    XD Writing Complications

    OK so, I have 3 strarted novels.. THREE! And I have only gotten up to 10 chapters in each in he last FIVE years.. and the ENTIRE last year... *cries* I have gotten nothing written, I am at the worst writers block I have ever had, and it is driving me insane, I live to write, and I can't live with out writing... any help?!?!
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    Don't worry. I've the same problem. ^_^ Pair that with not enough time, and the hard time I have with finishing what I start, add these together, and it's pretty bad. lol. I suppose what you could do is take time and sit down each day. Brainstorm, if that's your thing. (Which it's not mine, so eh. lol) Keep a brainstorming notebook. Then, take the time to NOTICE things around you, everyday. Write down observations, random quotes that come to mind, anything that you think uses your words effectively, or could be fleshed out to be effective.Keep the notebook with you. ^_^ Then, when you're in your free writing time, that you coudl set aside each day, take those thoughts and use them in your story. ^_^ You could also sit down, and reastories as a reader would, not as you as an author would. ^_^ Try to think of what would throw a reader for a loop, or make them happy, or make them go on reading. ^_^ But think it as if YOU are the reader. I hope this helps! ^_^
    "People...stop being mean to each other. Especially for the sake of laughs. IT SPEEDS UP ENTROPY." -Diane Duane

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    • #3
      Also extremely difficult, which is what editors, betas, and what friends are for. To be critical about ones own writing is much like trying to debate with bradwart - the border line of impossible.

      Start at the beginning, and end at the end. Work perserveringly at one novel, no matter how crappy it may sound, until it's finished. Then go back and edit. Too many people believe everything should be right the first time through...but they never finish! Editing can always be done at the end.
      Omnia mutantur; nihil interit.
      Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

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      • #4
        I've got 3 novels on the back burner myself, and until I joined NaNoWriMo a few years ago, didn't have a completed story. NaNoWriMo is an event where a group (A LARGE group) of people all get together and try to reach a goal of writing 50,000 words in 1 month's time (that month being November). A friend who ultimately gave up, got me into the group, and I successfully finished a 50,000 word story.

        That story has been most inspiring to me since it's one I finished, showing me that I can do it if I really want to. (I've done 3 more since, 2 of those are finished, I'm not pimping those stories here though)

        There's a group that does one in July as well, JulNoWriMo, they decided writing like that once a year just wasn't enough for them. I'd suggest joining one, or both of these groups and seeing how it goes. What's there to loose?
        -Positronic Cat
        (I have sat between the great lion statues, hoping for a glimpse of the future.)

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        • #5
          Thank You all soo much! I love all of what you each sai, I am gonna try to look up that group, thanks, and the editing thimg, XD I hate editing my own stuff, so saving it for end my help some. And thanks RS I should try that, thanks all!

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          • #6
            Gah! I know how you feel! I've been working on a book for some time now, and just recently got to a point where two characters meet up, acting like sort of a tranistion between two parts of the story, and its coming out so terribly slowly I'm about ready to "kill off" one of the characters! XD At the moment he lives to see another day, though...
            "In the contemporary world where things fall apart and the center will not hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no center." - John Green

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            • #7
              Dunno if this would help anybody, but there's a book I've heard recommended a heap of times. John Gardner's The Art of Fiction, which apparently has a ton of great exercises in it. There's also the Stephen King book, On Writing.
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              • #8
                And Campell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces is apparently also quite helpful by many authors, the most recent of which I can remember is Orson Scott Card.
                Omnia mutantur; nihil interit.
                Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

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                • #9
                  Kathy: How funny! My mother has that book on our bookshelves. I'll have to look at it, if it's supposed to help with writer's block. Thanks! ^_^
                  "People...stop being mean to each other. Especially for the sake of laughs. IT SPEEDS UP ENTROPY." -Diane Duane

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                  • #10
                    Thanx! lol I am going to be looking all those books up now and going to find them XD and Piper, XD I know what you mean, I killed off a charrie.. and then ripped it to pieces, then killed a different one, and ripped it to pieces.. etc... etc... etc.. lol

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