Picture_Fool
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I have great ideas for stories, but I can't seem to manifest any thing worth reading. Can I maybe get a suggestion or 20 from some of you lit authors.
Having a hard time writing.
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Start with the writers resources, they're rather helpful. Beyond that, just sit and write, don't edit until you've written something. If you stop to edit or muse over something you're in the process of writing, it tends to throw you off. (well, not everyone, but a lot of writers I've talked with at least)
Nothing much, but its all I have for now. Good luck,
Nothing much, but its all I have for now. Good luck,
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well I reckon you're part wa there having the ideas.
My suggestion is write. write it out even if you think it's not great. next look over it and see if you think it needs editing, how you can improve it. Once that's done get somone else look over it, mabe edit it more and then voila! a story!
Other suggestions - don't mention bra/penis size or any other kind of measurements. try to describe the people without giving precise info -makes it easier for the reader to imagine a person that way
Use all your senses. Don't just say what you see but what the person smells, feels, hears etc.
Oh and have a read of some of the folks here at the AH's stories and see what you can learn from them
And have fun
My suggestion is write. write it out even if you think it's not great. next look over it and see if you think it needs editing, how you can improve it. Once that's done get somone else look over it, mabe edit it more and then voila! a story!
Other suggestions - don't mention bra/penis size or any other kind of measurements. try to describe the people without giving precise info -makes it easier for the reader to imagine a person that way
Use all your senses. Don't just say what you see but what the person smells, feels, hears etc.
Oh and have a read of some of the folks here at the AH's stories and see what you can learn from them
And have fun
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There's some solid advice in the Writer's Resources section. I'd recommend reading some articles by WhisperSecret and maybe my two. I don't mean to sound like I'm plugging, but they do contain all of my advice on the subject of writing.
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Picture_Fool said:
It would help immeasurably if you could focus down the problem a little bit. Is it a discipline problem? Just a matter of making yourself sit down and write? Or is it that your prose comes out clunky and unreadable? Are your ideas really stories? Or are they just for scenes or vignettes?
Or maybe you’re stuck for an opening, or an ending. Maybe you don’t know how to bring a reader into a story, or make a scene come alive, or make your characters seem real.
Defining the problem is the first step towards solving it, and as long as your questions are vague, you’re going to get vague answers. If you don’t know what the problem is, post a couple of paragraphs and let us see what you’ve got.
---dr.M.
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I dont know if we are allowed to do this on here but... eharliquin.com has an area on writing. It goes from the very basic to more indepth areas. The section is near the bottom of the home page in the middle. Think its called ' About Writing'.
I know its for cheapy smut books but good basic info to give you the guidelines to start a story.
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http://www.eharlequin.com/cms/learn...ssionid=P303H4R0WSG3BLAUEAKCAOQ?module=Header
here is the section.
I know its for cheapy smut books but good basic info to give you the guidelines to start a story.
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http://www.eharlequin.com/cms/learn...ssionid=P303H4R0WSG3BLAUEAKCAOQ?module=Header
here is the section.
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In keeping with the holiday spirit, take a cue from "Santa Claus is coming to town" and the song lyric, "Just put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking out the door"--put one word in front of the other and soon you'll be writing--and then edit, edi, edit--which is where the thing really gets written.
Cheers, esl
Cheers, esl
I've found a good way to get over writer's block is to put yourself in the place of your audience. Don't think as much about what YOU think is important for them to know, tell them the details that YOU would want to know if you were reading it for the first time. It might sound silly, but it has worked for me many times in the past.
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Picture_Fool said:
Oh god, I've been having the same problem.
You wanna know what helps me, honestly? You might laugh. But I like to read REALLY CRAPPY stories and think about how much better I could do, or how I would tell the story in a different (read: better
)way. That usually helps me. 
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Re: Re: Having a hard time writing.
Funny, I'm the opposite. I love to read really GOOD stories and hope like hell I can learn something from them.
All the people in my favourites list are people who inspire me.
Rule of thumb, write, leave it and come back to it a week later, two weeks, and read it. Read what you've really written, not what you meant to write. If that makes sense. lol....
going away now... I'll come back in a week to see if that makes sense
Sunnie said:Oh god, I've been having the same problem.
You wanna know what helps me, honestly? You might laugh. But I like to read REALLY CRAPPY stories and think about how much better I could do, or how I would tell the story in a different (read: better
Funny, I'm the opposite. I love to read really GOOD stories and hope like hell I can learn something from them.
All the people in my favourites list are people who inspire me.
Rule of thumb, write, leave it and come back to it a week later, two weeks, and read it. Read what you've really written, not what you meant to write. If that makes sense. lol....
going away now... I'll come back in a week to see if that makes sense
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This is just me, but I like to choose a theme or a particular encounter, whatever, and just think about it for a few days, a week, or whatever. Then, I start to write.
I'll write a lot, then, in a big chunk of creativity, until I can't think of another single thing I want to say. Then, I won't look at it for a few days, but I WILL think about how I phrased things, etc...
At that point I'm ready to write again, but first I'll go back and re-write whatever I've considered to not be 'up to par.' I'll move right into the new stuff as a natural extension of what I've just re-written.
I think the most important thing is to think...narrow down all your ideas to one, before you begin to write, and concentrate on just that one storyline.
That's my method...for what it's worth
I'll write a lot, then, in a big chunk of creativity, until I can't think of another single thing I want to say. Then, I won't look at it for a few days, but I WILL think about how I phrased things, etc...
At that point I'm ready to write again, but first I'll go back and re-write whatever I've considered to not be 'up to par.' I'll move right into the new stuff as a natural extension of what I've just re-written.
I think the most important thing is to think...narrow down all your ideas to one, before you begin to write, and concentrate on just that one storyline.
That's my method...for what it's worth
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