galaxygoddess
Literotica Guru
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Ok, so I’ve got several things going on with this post, so bear with me. (I crammed all of this in one post so that I’m not making multiple posts, and because my mind trails around). Forgive me if I missed where any of this has been hashed out before.
The first thing is that, over the years I’ve gotten ideas in my head, mostly from weird dreams, and I write them down, either in a notebook or on the computer, giving myself as much detail as possible. I’ve been doing this for ever now, and I have a lot of little snippets and ideas, and stuff I want to work with at a later date. I’m sure pretty much most, if not all, of you guys have the same thing going. I wanted to share something mildly humorous. I was going through my files, opening everything seeing what I had, and I found one titled “constant damsel”. Now I’m thinking, this one has gotta be fantasy or romance, or both, and there’s probably a lot in this one. I open the file and… nope. It says “Firefighters! Johnathan!” and… that’s it. That’s my entire note to myself. *facepalm* real freaking helpful.
The second thing is that I have this story I’m stuck on. I kind of hate it, but I don’t “want” to stop writing it. I’m about 7 pages in and it’s terrible. Yet I want to write down the bulk of it and set it to the side and let it stew. I don’t know why I am so stuck on writing this. I got a “sort of” plotline, but no imagery to go with it. The words are stagnant and stale, and I feel like I’m beating my head on the keyboard trying to make words. It’s not a block, per say, but it’s some form of annoyance. I’ve tried free writing (how I usually do it), I’ve tried skipping ahead to the good parts (which feels wrong because, well, what got them there?), I’ve tried throwing darts at the dictionary and hoping for good words. Hell, I’ll even take standing on my head and whistling Dixie. Why is THIS stupid story plaguing me? I just got through saying I have a stockpile of ideas waiting for me. I have three novellas to edit for smashwords. I even have a full-length novel waiting for me to tack on the last chapter. ARGH!
I had an idea, which is to pretend I’m Disney or pixar, and do story boarding. Which is where they do little doodles (in my case, stick figures) and draw scenes and build the world, but I’m not sure how helpful that is either. I mean, it sounds like a great practice for getting further along and building the background noise, but as for the actual story, hell, I don’t know. *throws hands in the air*
Finally, this goes with “background noise” but when writing out characters, do you ever have “hand talkers”? What I mean is, people that talk with their hands. Not sign language, but like, southerners (i.e my relatives), who can’t stop moving their hands with every word they say. I come from a long line of “hand talkers” but I, myself, never know what to do with my hands and wind up clenching them together, which triggers my tremors, which leads to people asking me if I’m nervous all the time. (not that anyone needed to know that). Has anyone come across any good stories where there’s a hand talker? I would like examples of how people handle stories in which people use their hands and other body language to a decent effect.
The first thing is that, over the years I’ve gotten ideas in my head, mostly from weird dreams, and I write them down, either in a notebook or on the computer, giving myself as much detail as possible. I’ve been doing this for ever now, and I have a lot of little snippets and ideas, and stuff I want to work with at a later date. I’m sure pretty much most, if not all, of you guys have the same thing going. I wanted to share something mildly humorous. I was going through my files, opening everything seeing what I had, and I found one titled “constant damsel”. Now I’m thinking, this one has gotta be fantasy or romance, or both, and there’s probably a lot in this one. I open the file and… nope. It says “Firefighters! Johnathan!” and… that’s it. That’s my entire note to myself. *facepalm* real freaking helpful.
The second thing is that I have this story I’m stuck on. I kind of hate it, but I don’t “want” to stop writing it. I’m about 7 pages in and it’s terrible. Yet I want to write down the bulk of it and set it to the side and let it stew. I don’t know why I am so stuck on writing this. I got a “sort of” plotline, but no imagery to go with it. The words are stagnant and stale, and I feel like I’m beating my head on the keyboard trying to make words. It’s not a block, per say, but it’s some form of annoyance. I’ve tried free writing (how I usually do it), I’ve tried skipping ahead to the good parts (which feels wrong because, well, what got them there?), I’ve tried throwing darts at the dictionary and hoping for good words. Hell, I’ll even take standing on my head and whistling Dixie. Why is THIS stupid story plaguing me? I just got through saying I have a stockpile of ideas waiting for me. I have three novellas to edit for smashwords. I even have a full-length novel waiting for me to tack on the last chapter. ARGH!
I had an idea, which is to pretend I’m Disney or pixar, and do story boarding. Which is where they do little doodles (in my case, stick figures) and draw scenes and build the world, but I’m not sure how helpful that is either. I mean, it sounds like a great practice for getting further along and building the background noise, but as for the actual story, hell, I don’t know. *throws hands in the air*
Finally, this goes with “background noise” but when writing out characters, do you ever have “hand talkers”? What I mean is, people that talk with their hands. Not sign language, but like, southerners (i.e my relatives), who can’t stop moving their hands with every word they say. I come from a long line of “hand talkers” but I, myself, never know what to do with my hands and wind up clenching them together, which triggers my tremors, which leads to people asking me if I’m nervous all the time. (not that anyone needed to know that). Has anyone come across any good stories where there’s a hand talker? I would like examples of how people handle stories in which people use their hands and other body language to a decent effect.