Help! Writers block! Ideas?
Im having writers block! (when you cant think of an idea for a book)
i’ve been writing forever! But now, when i think i can streach my short stories into novels, i cant think of anything!
i’ve tryed to make a long story out of the short ones, but its not working out too good.
i need a some inperation.
like..what kind of book do u like?
can you think of any storylines for me?
thanks always,,
=]
I love the twilght series btw
and i like to write fantasy like magic.
- xerinx
Tags: Block Im, Btw, Fantasy, Inperation, Novels, Short Stories, Storylines, Writer's Block
December 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am
What type of stories
December 27th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Leave the short stories as short stories and go for a whole new idea. Something you will write as a novel and not just a short story. Unless you can combine your short stories. I always find it is hard to stretch an idea - some stories are just meant to be short.
As for storylines, those you think of yourself are always the easiest to write. Once you get an idea and write it you’ll feel more proud of yourself than if anyone else were to give you an idea.
Think about what you are interested in. Write down key words and phrases and any ideas you get. Concentrate on one idea you find most interesting and just keep writing. You’ll get there one day.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I think a solution for writers block is to draw figure eights. I heard this helps from somewhere, although it didn’t work for my friend but she might just be weird=]
December 31st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
well it depends on what TYPE of book your trying to write. I’ve been trying to write mine for 3 years now. ( Have a day job it gets put on back burner). But the story I’m writing is a romance novel. I have to be in a romatic mood to write. Some movies inpire me like Pearl Harbor. Certian Actors inspire me because I can see them as my charaters. Even other books inspire me like the Stephene Meyer’s series. It all really depends on what type of book your writing. Maybe watch or read something in the same genre your trying to write.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
ooh ooh this is a fun question.
i like fantasy and strange mystical stuff.
have you looked into your family history? any interesting stories there?
or find inspiration from local new cuttings. how about strange news articles on the internet? -
“A captive hammerhead shark gave birth to a pup without mating, reported researchers on Wednesday. It is the first time that parthenogenesis, as virginal birth as called, has been observed in a shark.”
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January 2nd, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Go to language is a virus website.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:41 am
I’m always amazed when people say they have writer’s block only because I have so many ideas I can’t write fast enough. On average I have about ten to fifteen story ideas that I’m working. One will always stand out from the others, a second will emerge when I get slightly tired of a genre and I want to have a real flight of fancy. I have one urban fiction manuscript that I’m not thrilled with, it isn’t a genre of reading I’m particularly fond of and it isn’t a genre of writing I’m good at, but I had convinced myself it was such rubbish as far as art that I could imitate it with no problem. Well just like trying to go out and be a banker or a garbage man I wasn’t really all that good at something I really know nothing about. However I managed to get through because my characters had a story they passionately wanted me to tell even if I wasn’t all that good, I was all they had.
Similarly I like to write fantasy now that I’ve met authors who do it, problem is I didn’t want to do what everyone one else was doing so someone complaining about all the Vampire books said they’d like to read something different and tossed me an idea. I ran with it doing all the research I could and using that to fill in the conversation and dictate the characters actions.
I did a Sci-fantasy one as well, just to see if I could world build and my author friends loved it. It’s only about fifty pages before I abandoned it, not because I got stuck but because I had so much story I had to back off before I ruined it with overkill. I finally settled on a much less crowded story and ended up using the unused elements to create another fantasy novel.
Chose one of the other Answer’s forums or chat groups and find out about romance, dating, Wicca, employment, education, vacations spots to find the best tidbits of information to fill out your characters.
I’ve begun reading inspirational romance. It’s all very innocent and spiritual and though I don’t knock it I sort of ended up writing more about the Antichrist type of stuff. I went crazy in the fantasy genre and just had a ball world building. There are no limits with magic and paranormal. And Vampires and werewolves are not the only creatures on the horror side of the paranormal either. I pulled up a website that was a satanic dictionary of sorts listing all these names for the devil and the underworld. I decided to create the ultimate bad guy and chose a name from there. To the extreme I went and found the list of heavenly bodies and made my good guy based on those traits.
How about writing in a new genre like YA, paranormal or fantasy?
With romance you have a basic pattern of boy meets girl, then it’s boy and girl don’t get along, or do get along but have other problems that keep them from focusing on romance. In the end boy gets girl. You can have a hero and heroine who meet during a competition. Perhaps a historical with arrows, jousting and broadsword, maybe even swimming and castle scaling. This way there will be categories where she will best him and cause him to be resentful of her. This will be the tension between them. Maybe in the end the King finds the only tie breaker is to see who is more resourceful on a trek but some serious dragon decides to attack the Kingdom and the best chances of winning are to team up.
With paranormal you have ghosts, and angels and demons. With fantasy you can use magic run amok and need a warlock or witch must save a particularly strong yet endangered magical creature.
You can also create a type of growing evil menace in space and require Riget Warriors (they don’t exist except in my mind and now this sentence, that I know of) to combat it. With these genres you get to world build.
If you want horror just look at any movie and change the characters and think of what you would have done differently so that it wasn’t so much like others you’ve seen like how would your zombies be different would they have more memories of being human, would they have the ability to move faster, would they have some vampire attributes…
Okay I’ve said enough. Have fun.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
ok, I’ve got a book to help with writer’s block. I going to pick something at random out of the book and you write it (if you want):
Write from the point-of-view of someone who committed a murder today. Do not mention the murder.
Or try:
Green. (Write what comes in your mind when I write the word Green and a story behind it)
I don’t know if this will work for you but it does for me- usually after I do one of these exercises I want to write my story again…. anyway good luck!
January 8th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Write about a dream or a hobby of yours that you would like to take further. What are some obstacles that prevent you from achieving that goal? Do you play an instrument? Do you like to sing, dance or act? Jot down the things you enjoy doing and hopefullyy that can develop into a short story.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Hello,
I am a writer as well and I sometimes have the same problem. Sometimes I Google ‘writing prompts’ or ‘creative writing prompts’ or something to that effect. Also, while doing this once, I found a technique somewhere online that said to write a story using a favorite song of yours. You can put the song title as your title (song titles can’t be copyrighted, don’t worry) and use the lyrics for a plot. I thought this was a great idea and I already have one or two ideas using this prompt that are different from what I normally write. For example, I used the song “To the Moon and Back” by Savage Garden to make a science fiction story about humans living in space. If you listen to the song you choose, it might give some good ideas.
Good Luck!
January 11th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Join a writing community! Some how it seems to relieve the writers block syndrome. My favorite is It’s a site. I really like it a lot.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
If your short stories are fine as they are, I would leave them as is. It sounds like you need inspriration which also always comes when you least expect it. I would take a break for a while and just make a habit of jotting your ideas down.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Everybody does it different I am told.
Some writers know the Beginning. The Middle and The End when they start.
Some write chapters in note form and embroider with words to fill it out.
You need the story in skeleton form first anyway. Sometimes it will change as you write. That doesn’t matter. It is because the characters are becoming real to you.
You need to remember who is who and not become mixed up.
You can leave clues which come out later towards the end of the book.
When you are out at the shops anywhere. Always have a note book handy. You may observe something that will come in useful one day in one of your writings.
When you have a writer’s block. I would think leave it alone for a while do something else then start again.