[Bunny #4] Post your stucks-

[kalloway]

It happens to all of us. The wall of stuck. The wall of stuck can manifest in a lot of ways. It can come in the form of realizing a plotbunny was really a premise!bunny and there's nowhere for the story to go because there isn't actually much of a story. It can be canon giving a firm backhand. It can be wholly external. It can be a scathing review or even an unintentional comment from a well-meaning friend. It can be an epic decision or a non-epic decision or everything or nothing.

What has gotten you stuck? What has gotten you unstuck?


My stucks are usually... premise bunnies, prompts that seemed interesting at the time, over-excitement and not planning. And character names. I have an entire shelf of baby name books and that makes things worse...

My unstuck methods are all over the place - working on a different section of the story, putting in placeholders for the bits that stuck, making lists of what might be in a character's fridge to get me thinking about them in general, reviewing canon, long walks by the water, imaginary conversation while at the grocery store...

Post your stucks and your unstucks!

If you would like. Perhaps another community member can offer you suggestions to unstick yourself. You do not have to.


This is also a weekly check-in! You do not have to check in, of course, but if you would like to comment on the last week, feel free!

If you have a deadline coming up, you can do it!

Comments

[sylvaine]

Hmmm, the thing that gets me stuck most often is comments. Not the content, so much - I've been really lucky with nice comments so far - but the quantity. It always makes me feel awfully entitled, but getting little to no comments does feel pretty discouraging. I try to combat that by setting my expectations lower, making things specifically for other people (that way I know at least one person read/listened to it!), and doing my best to convince myself that I'm only doing this for my own enjoyment (which I do, but not only because of that! If that were the case I wouldn't ever bother putting anything Moines.) So far I have only had limited success with above methods. More successful is signing up to challenges (i get things done because deadlines! But I don't do this very often because creating things for challenges is less fun for me.). And when I get a particularly awesome comment I'm usually inspired to write/record more. ^^

Check-in: haven't done anything creative last week, too busy & too lethargic.

[kalloway]

Busy/lethargic weeks definitely happen. I know I'll have one coming up where if I can put two words together, it'll be a miracle.

I definitely understand that! I think it's hard for us to talk about because we've been told so many times that we're being entitled for wanting comments. But holy fishes, it does feel good to have lotsa people say we did good! I don't think wanting comments is a bad thing (as long as it's not the only thing)--