Sometimes when I'm struck on something in my writing, I try to write another scene first... So, let's say, when I decide that a story should concentrate on Some Kind of an Event, and I can't begin to write about it, I'll try to write about what happened before, what led the characters to That Event. It's a sort of thing that Doesn't Count - it's not going to be featured in the final draft, so I don't have to worry about things being incoherent or inconsistent with rest of the story, but it allows me to (for example) see the characters' motivations properly, and is a good exercise before writing the actual Event.
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Date: 2006-07-24 05:21 pm (UTC)Sometimes when I'm struck on something in my writing, I try to write another scene first... So, let's say, when I decide that a story should concentrate on Some Kind of an Event, and I can't begin to write about it, I'll try to write about what happened before, what led the characters to That Event. It's a sort of thing that Doesn't Count - it's not going to be featured in the final draft, so I don't have to worry about things being incoherent or inconsistent with rest of the story, but it allows me to (for example) see the characters' motivations properly, and is a good exercise before writing the actual Event.
(hope I made myself clear ;))