Yes. It's like Quicksand Box, when you're trying to chew something too big. Try start by focusing on a small detail — the heroine's puffy lips, or the lantern's glow. Your mind will get up and running in no time.
edited 27th Feb '11 8:01:58 PM by QQQQQ
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It happens to me when I'm getting to a major point in my story, such as the death of a number of characters, because I'm afraid of doing it badly (Knowing full well that this makes no sense, because the whole thing needs a rewrite anyway)
I get past it by just writing, and damning the consequences.
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I get this feeling mostly when I'm nowhere near any major plot points and I'm trying to establish my characters or elements of the setting. This may point to structuring problems, I guess.
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I get that at major plot points too. Currently I'm frozen on one story at the point where the protagonist meets her nemesis and is going to realize he's not exactly evil and actually kind of pitiable.
If I'm asking for advice on a story idea, don't tell me it can't be done.
Grin and bear it
A lot of people (as you can probably tell) have this problem. I myself have just way too many ideas to even start at one point.
Just focus on doing one thing at a time. During the course of writing one thing, you may find out what on your list of things to do can be branched upon and what can be cut out.
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I get this so horribly badly.
(That was a weird sentence.)
Mainly because I'm both writing and drawing which means I have to design literally tens of characters, along with real-world locations and fantasy ones while writing a story, dialogue, and narration.
I've wasted entire days just trying to decide what to do that day, along with finding references, sketching out stick-figure poses and rough drafts, and angsting about how long this is taking when I'm already 5 months behind schedule.
I have no idea how real comic artists manage this shit.
edited 28th Feb '11 3:08:31 PM by Wheezy
Project progress: The Adroan (102k words), The Pigeon Witch, (40k). Done but in need of reworking: Yume Hime, (50k)
Okay, so I've had a lot of ideas for several stories run around in my head for a while, so I decided: why not just finally write them down?
The problem is that when I finally get a chance to actually start writing, I just suddenly can't bring myself to do it. Like I suddenly just get writers block and my body just freezes or something. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any tips for getting past this?
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