[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

[osidiano]

Hmm. . . most of my stories begin as premise!bunnies that I lovingly hand-feed and raise to plotbunnyhood, so I usually find them to be helpful unstucks. If it's just general stuckness I'm feeling, I'll crawl through my focus fandom's anon meme to see if anything sparks my interest or rekindles my writing desire. If it's story specific stuckness, I usually go back through the fic's comments and bookmarked notes to remind myself that there are people out there who haven't read draft 42 of Chapter X over 9000 times yet and really care how the story ends.

I tend to get stuck when I get too many competing premise!bunnies and canon interpretations all at once. It can be hard for me to keep track of which reasonable meta I'm using for what if I have a lot of projects all going at the same time ("so-and-so's backstory is like this!!" "but wait I'm using the comics canon from 2004--" "*my brain, banging pots and pans together while yelling* THIS IS YOUR CANON NOW!! NO TAKE-BACKSIES!").

[kalloway]

Very, very belated, but I definitely appreciate and resemble this comment.