Tips on Focusing

[SithSexxGoddess]

hi, as a write I often find myself with too much information that I want to relay to paper and no clear avenue of where to start. Often times I fidn myself starting in the middle and working my way from there. Do any of you have ideas about focusing, and or, how and where to start?

Thx in advance
SSG

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

hi, as a write I often find myself with too much information that I want to relay to paper and no clear avenue of where to start. Often times I fidn myself starting in the middle and working my way from there. Do any of you have ideas about focusing, and or, how and where to start?

Thx in advance
SSG

A good plot keeps things in hand.

As for the point of beginning, I get a firm grasp of my premise and hatch a scene that cleverly illustrates the premise, clearly and plainly.

 

[lance gt]

I posed this same question in another thread. At what point do you start? A moment in a person's day? An event happening? Conversation? There's many avenues to approach the start, it's finding the one that leads into your story the best, that's key.
In that instance, I try several to see which one gets the plot rolling fastest, so the attention level doesn't drop before the end of the first page is done.

 

[havsumfun1]

be bold with it

Research/having as much info as possible about your subject is optimal. Pulling the trigger can be hard but you should know in your gut when you're ready to begin.

As for the starting point, it should be somewhere that pulls in the reader, an action or suspense point. You can always flashback for important background, just incorporate character introduction into the beginning and it should flow from there.

If you give an example I can tell you where I would start...

 

[SithSexxGoddess]

Thank you all very much. Those were very helpful tips. Keeping it engaging while not over loading my reader with info has been an obstacle. Also transistion points are problematic as well.

 

[TE999]

Focusing on a story plot has never been a problem for me. Why just the other day ... Ooooh, a butterfly ... um ... as i was saying, if you concentrate on the basic premise of your ... Yay! Jeopardy's on! ... err ... anyway, having a main character you can center a story around ... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ... Darn cat! Get off the keyboard! Shoo! ... now what was I saying ... Hmmmm ... well, anyway, that's my take on the subject and ... was that the doorbell? I better go see who it is. I'll be back soon and we'll finish this ...

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

Focusing on a story plot has never been a problem for me. Why just the other day ... Ooooh, a butterfly ... um ... as i was saying, if you concentrate on the basic premise of your ... Yay! Jeopardy's on! ... err ... anyway, having a main character you can center a story around ... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ... Darn cat! Get off the keyboard! Shoo! ... now what was I saying ... Hmmmm ... well, anyway, that's my take on the subject and ... was that the doorbell? I better go see who it is. I'll be back soon and we'll finish this ...

Werd.

 

[SamScribble]

Werd.

Yeah. But good weird

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

Not weird. Werd. Guess I should've put "word." LOL I agree entirely with what TE999 said.

 

[SweetMaj]

Focusing on a story plot has never been a problem for me. Why just the other day ... Ooooh, a butterfly ... um ... as i was saying, if you concentrate on the basic premise of your ... Yay! Jeopardy's on! ... err ... anyway, having a main character you can center a story around ... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ... Darn cat! Get off the keyboard! Shoo! ... now what was I saying ... Hmmmm ... well, anyway, that's my take on the subject and ... was that the doorbell? I better go see who it is. I'll be back soon and we'll finish this ...

I love this, Tom.

 

[lovecraft68]

hi, as a write I often find myself with too much information that I want to relay to paper and no clear avenue of where to start. Often times I fidn myself starting in the middle and working my way from there. Do any of you have ideas about focusing, and or, how and where to start?

Thx in advance
SSG

All kidding aside? Don't post here. It's a major distraction.

When my writing is flowing well I take short breaks and post here, b ecause I need a break and know I can continue where I left off.

When I am unfocused I stay the hell off of here and the net in general, because it will be impossible to catch that focus.