Names are hard! I was stuck on names for a long time for the current story; I had placeholder names but they weren't the absolute perfect name I was looking for, so every time I opened my story the names jarred and I was put off writing. Names for the secondary characters came more easily; my main characters have names that will do but may need changing again.
My story isn't coming along and I think I'm stuck on something so big I won't be able to get past it. In a way I am writing just to figure out how my universe works -- to find where the questions are as I go along, knowing that this story need never see light of day. Maybe I need to take another step back, look at the situation again and find the right questions to ask.
On the up side, I've been hit by an idea about making what was originally an Insert Macguffin Here into something that relates to the background of my second main character and may help to give his life some interest. So that's good!
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Date: 2013-03-07 09:32 am (UTC)My story isn't coming along and I think I'm stuck on something so big I won't be able to get past it. In a way I am writing just to figure out how my universe works -- to find where the questions are as I go along, knowing that this story need never see light of day. Maybe I need to take another step back, look at the situation again and find the right questions to ask.
On the up side, I've been hit by an idea about making what was originally an Insert Macguffin Here into something that relates to the background of my second main character and may help to give his life some interest. So that's good!