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Question: How do you keep writing to finish a novel or story? I’ll run into writer’s block after putting my ideas to paper, screen in this instance, think the story’s dumb and eventually just stop updating it. How do you do it?
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It didn’t really click for me until after I turned 30, when I became more interested in human nature/psychology. Before that, I couldn’t write more than a few chapters. Afterwards, I became interested in how humans express the hero’s journey, best defined by Joseph Campbell. In regards to what happens next in a story, I would say that it ideally makes logical and thematic sense, so when I write, I like to understand what a character represents, their journey in regards to their personal beliefs and how those will change by the end, and how events will reflect that journey. Fiction is a chance to see people fully realize that journey (or fail to, in a villain’s case), which I find interesting, so that helps me keeping from thinking the story is dumb. Real life, on the other hand, is full of instances where people don’t realize that journey (at least in a convenient manner, where I can digest it in a book or a movie), so I tend to not be as interested in the day to day lives of actual people. I’m more interested in their potential, which fiction serves to highlight. Also, the feeling of it being dumb may be a clue from your intuition, telling you to take a break so you can develop your outlook into something needed to push forward with the story, or it may be telling you to change the course of the character’s journey. Or it could just be you being too hard on yourself. It can be hard to tell, but I feel like that’s where introspection, emotional intelligence, and–if all else fails–the willingness to simply write something dumb will help sort that out. Plenty of writers have written dumb stuff, and I suspect that in many cases, it needed to be done so they could develop their outlook and skills so they could move on to the next project.
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I need to confess first. I’m never interested in Si-Fi/fantasy books, but I admire anyone who can write quality amounts of words and make them not only a book, but a series! I also admire your response to people stuck in writer’s blocks. It’s sincere and full of hearts. Without bull shitting about efforts are important, you mentioned you also had similar problems before and how become interested in nature/psychology affects you. One thing I guess I’m not into Si-Fi is as a person speaking English as a second language, even a simple memoir takes me hours to take down the new vocabularies for me. I once took an online speaking class in English, the teacher asked me, “Have you studied in America? You just keep throwing out big words!” I was stunned, I said what I read from the books and never considered the words are big or little. For me, “it’s so lit.” is a big word.
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Thank you for your kind words! Yes, there’s a lot of advice on writer’s block, and though I could run down a list of common remedies, I can only speak from my perspective, which is more weighted toward understanding the psychology of the characters. No worries on scifi/fantasy not being your preference; I’m the same with romance and drama! And kudos on learning a second language! I’m a US citizen, and I know that outside the US, a lot of people know more than one language, which I’ve always found impressive!
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