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I'm having such a hard time writing a story, ponyfriends. I have an incessant urge to write, yet the words fall out meaninglessly. I have ideas, and nowhere to take them, and then I have pathways full of no ideas. What do you all do to make a story come together?
Thursday, 07-Apr-11 11:11:00 UTC from web-
@trombe Being a a bit of writer myself with a similar writer's block, something that helps me often involves randomly and haphazardly spilling ideas all over my writing medium in the form of random lines of speech, description, even doodles and pictures, and eventually ideas come on how to link them together. It doesn't always work, and it's probably not the best way to overcome writer's block, but it doesn't hurt and it's a pretty darned fun process if you're in a sufficiently good mood. Great way to spend time when you're bored, too. Good Luck!
Thursday, 07-Apr-11 11:22:55 UTC from web-
@simplicitification Thanks for your advice :] I'm going to attempt doing just that- getting all my thoughts down, and then seeing how I can fit the pieces together.
Thursday, 07-Apr-11 11:25:12 UTC from web-
@trombe Another thing, don't be afraid to begin writing in earnest, even when you have no clear idea of what you're going to do with your ideas. By experience, most of the ideas and links I end up using in stories are ideas I came up with while half-way through writing, often the result of discarding an earlier idea I had once I've tried it and realized it doesn't work for any number of reasons. As a result of this, I have not yet ever wrote a story which even remotely looks like what I planned. Go wild and write, ideas come as often halfway through as they do in the beginning!
Thursday, 07-Apr-11 11:36:32 UTC from web
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