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onedeadplotbunny2013-03-06 09:51 am
kalloway) wrote in onedeadplotbunny2013-03-06 09:51 am
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[Bunny #4] Post your stucks-
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!
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!
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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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Sounds like you have a good path laid out, and if you do choose to re-write the whole thing at some point and span the gap you've hit, you'll know how.
\o/