[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.


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Comments

[lunarwolfik]

The getting stuck part is by far the worst thing that plaques me when writing longer fics. I think I'm good for short inclusive 1-2k fics of self-contained whatevers, but beyond that, ugh, it's all stuck, all the time.

And yea, still don't know how to become unstuck. I like the idea of working on other bits and coming back to the stuck parts, because wow, there are scenes that itch under my skin and call to be written in the worst ways, but at the same time, once I get those scenes out of my system, I don't know if I'll even be motivated to work on the other bits because I've lost the part I'm working towards : /

[kalloway]

But I think sometimes knowing exactly what you're working towards can help with the bridge, too. And know what details need to be tucked into the build up.

If I ever discover the secret to 'the middle', I promise to share~!