Since the start of December my stucks are sex scenes, which is awfully inconvenient for a porn writer. ;) I have 8 or 9 fics that I have started and they are all stuck where the sex scenes begin. I can blame a few of them for being more premise!bunnies than actual *real* bunnies, but the others... Set-up and start of story is fine, including banter and dialogue, and then the heat cranks up and my brain goes cold. ;)
Other times it can be that I'm not actually as clear on a story or scene or plot as I think I am. Maybe I can sum it up nicely in a few sentences, but when I turn my inner eye to it, it's more like a few snapshots than a movie, if that makes sense.
To unstuck the latter, it usually works if I can manage to find out what actually happens in detail in the scene, get the film rolling in my head. Otherwise I have nothing to describe and put into words. But the trick to *do* this varies. What works on one story may not work on another. :(
I've found that traditional Japanese music in the background makes my muses happy and cooperating, also to fill my bed with pillows and lean against them while writing instead of sitting in the living room... If I could find a trick that I could trust to work more often, I'd be happy. As it is, I have to test a hundred different things every time.
Check-in: one story is in beta! It ended up longer than a lot of things I've written in ages, so I'm happy with that. other than that, just a few hundred words on a new chapter for my WiP.
(Just wanted to add that I, too, get discouraged when for some reason I get very few comments on something, and I start dissecting everything I wrote and judging it hard. Not very good for creativity.)
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Date: 2013-03-06 04:47 pm (UTC)Other times it can be that I'm not actually as clear on a story or scene or plot as I think I am. Maybe I can sum it up nicely in a few sentences, but when I turn my inner eye to it, it's more like a few snapshots than a movie, if that makes sense.
To unstuck the latter, it usually works if I can manage to find out what actually happens in detail in the scene, get the film rolling in my head. Otherwise I have nothing to describe and put into words. But the trick to *do* this varies. What works on one story may not work on another. :(
I've found that traditional Japanese music in the background makes my muses happy and cooperating, also to fill my bed with pillows and lean against them while writing instead of sitting in the living room... If I could find a trick that I could trust to work more often, I'd be happy. As it is, I have to test a hundred different things every time.
Check-in: one story is in beta! It ended up longer than a lot of things I've written in ages, so I'm happy with that. other than that, just a few hundred words on a new chapter for my WiP.
(Just wanted to add that I, too, get discouraged when for some reason I get very few comments on something, and I start dissecting everything I wrote and judging it hard. Not very good for creativity.)