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r9tf7y | writing_train | 0.9 | I want to write a book but am apparently only good at short stories I struggle to fill in longer stories. Is this a handicap or do more people like to write short stories? (around 1000 to 4000 words) | hng0un7 | hnidwvz | 1,638,787,266 | 1,638,826,156 | 2 | 3 | Sounds good lengthfor a chapter. | Short stories can be upwards of 20000 words. If it's what you like doing, then keep doing it. Here's a secret: most of the people that claim to LOVE writing novels aren't any good at it. So do what you do, and do it for you. | 0 | 38,890 | 1.5 | ||
r9tf7y | writing_train | 0.9 | I want to write a book but am apparently only good at short stories I struggle to fill in longer stories. Is this a handicap or do more people like to write short stories? (around 1000 to 4000 words) | hnh4pa1 | hnidwvz | 1,638,808,530 | 1,638,826,156 | 2 | 3 | If you can push yourself up to 80kish you’d do really good in certain genres where it’s expected to be shorter. Word count/length is really dependent on genre. But also short stories have a strong place in journals, magazines, and anthologies. You could get into those instead. | Short stories can be upwards of 20000 words. If it's what you like doing, then keep doing it. Here's a secret: most of the people that claim to LOVE writing novels aren't any good at it. So do what you do, and do it for you. | 0 | 17,626 | 1.5 | ||
x0810t | writing_train | 0.69 | I just can’t seem to write anymore? Am I even good at it? I’ve been writing for years and the way people would read my works was through fan fiction (I know it’s controversial but that’s another discussion). I always received great feedback from that, and during my academic years I was always praised on my writing, but for some reason I feel as if I’m shooting blanks. I have all these ideas but the second I put pen to paper, nothing comes out. I always thought that writing was my thing and something I truly enjoyed but now I’m starting to think that I’m just not that good. | im7oenk | im7h1vk | 1,661,743,330 | 1,661,739,599 | 5 | 2 | Get a small note book, and just jot down whatever comes to mind when it pops in there. I once spent an entire month stuck on one part of the book I’m writing, I solved it whilst shopping for groceries. To answer your question though, you’re probably average. Most people don’t get really good at writing until they’ve done it at a professional level for a few years and gained some experience. PS: Fan fiction is actually super good for “sharpening your fangs” because it’s so much easier than trying to come up with completely original content. | When did I write this? I give up. I’ll just read instead. | 1 | 3,731 | 2.5 | ||
x0810t | writing_train | 0.69 | I just can’t seem to write anymore? Am I even good at it? I’ve been writing for years and the way people would read my works was through fan fiction (I know it’s controversial but that’s another discussion). I always received great feedback from that, and during my academic years I was always praised on my writing, but for some reason I feel as if I’m shooting blanks. I have all these ideas but the second I put pen to paper, nothing comes out. I always thought that writing was my thing and something I truly enjoyed but now I’m starting to think that I’m just not that good. | im6vq97 | im7oenk | 1,661,729,367 | 1,661,743,330 | 1 | 5 | Do what makes you happy. If you want to write and if writing gives you joy then write. If you don't like writing and it upsets you then don't write. | Get a small note book, and just jot down whatever comes to mind when it pops in there. I once spent an entire month stuck on one part of the book I’m writing, I solved it whilst shopping for groceries. To answer your question though, you’re probably average. Most people don’t get really good at writing until they’ve done it at a professional level for a few years and gained some experience. PS: Fan fiction is actually super good for “sharpening your fangs” because it’s so much easier than trying to come up with completely original content. | 0 | 13,963 | 5 | ||
x0810t | writing_train | 0.69 | I just can’t seem to write anymore? Am I even good at it? I’ve been writing for years and the way people would read my works was through fan fiction (I know it’s controversial but that’s another discussion). I always received great feedback from that, and during my academic years I was always praised on my writing, but for some reason I feel as if I’m shooting blanks. I have all these ideas but the second I put pen to paper, nothing comes out. I always thought that writing was my thing and something I truly enjoyed but now I’m starting to think that I’m just not that good. | im7oenk | im75jq9 | 1,661,743,330 | 1,661,734,036 | 5 | 1 | Get a small note book, and just jot down whatever comes to mind when it pops in there. I once spent an entire month stuck on one part of the book I’m writing, I solved it whilst shopping for groceries. To answer your question though, you’re probably average. Most people don’t get really good at writing until they’ve done it at a professional level for a few years and gained some experience. PS: Fan fiction is actually super good for “sharpening your fangs” because it’s so much easier than trying to come up with completely original content. | We talked about the pressure of writing in general on today's writers podcast because it is so complex to be an independent writer. \- Developing ideas \- Developing plot and characters \- Writing with good grammar \- Editing, editing, editing \- Marketing and book cover \- And a hundred other small tasks. \- Plus real life. Do what you're doing here: identify your challenges and reach out to other writers. Being an author is a solitary task at times, but it doesn't have to be. Develop a community of sorts so you don't feel alone. Talk things out. No problem is too small! The other thing is keep writing. You're having the exact same feeling as all writers have, and the best way to power through is to keep writing. The tiny successes build up in your brain over time. Hang in there! (today's podcast, in case you're interested: https://carsonhume.com/2022/08/28/marketing-is-cruel/) | 1 | 9,294 | 5 | ||
x0810t | writing_train | 0.69 | I just can’t seem to write anymore? Am I even good at it? I’ve been writing for years and the way people would read my works was through fan fiction (I know it’s controversial but that’s another discussion). I always received great feedback from that, and during my academic years I was always praised on my writing, but for some reason I feel as if I’m shooting blanks. I have all these ideas but the second I put pen to paper, nothing comes out. I always thought that writing was my thing and something I truly enjoyed but now I’m starting to think that I’m just not that good. | im7h1vk | im6vq97 | 1,661,739,599 | 1,661,729,367 | 2 | 1 | When did I write this? I give up. I’ll just read instead. | Do what makes you happy. If you want to write and if writing gives you joy then write. If you don't like writing and it upsets you then don't write. | 1 | 10,232 | 2 | ||
x0810t | writing_train | 0.69 | I just can’t seem to write anymore? Am I even good at it? I’ve been writing for years and the way people would read my works was through fan fiction (I know it’s controversial but that’s another discussion). I always received great feedback from that, and during my academic years I was always praised on my writing, but for some reason I feel as if I’m shooting blanks. I have all these ideas but the second I put pen to paper, nothing comes out. I always thought that writing was my thing and something I truly enjoyed but now I’m starting to think that I’m just not that good. | im7h1vk | im75jq9 | 1,661,739,599 | 1,661,734,036 | 2 | 1 | When did I write this? I give up. I’ll just read instead. | We talked about the pressure of writing in general on today's writers podcast because it is so complex to be an independent writer. \- Developing ideas \- Developing plot and characters \- Writing with good grammar \- Editing, editing, editing \- Marketing and book cover \- And a hundred other small tasks. \- Plus real life. Do what you're doing here: identify your challenges and reach out to other writers. Being an author is a solitary task at times, but it doesn't have to be. Develop a community of sorts so you don't feel alone. Talk things out. No problem is too small! The other thing is keep writing. You're having the exact same feeling as all writers have, and the best way to power through is to keep writing. The tiny successes build up in your brain over time. Hang in there! (today's podcast, in case you're interested: https://carsonhume.com/2022/08/28/marketing-is-cruel/) | 1 | 5,563 | 2 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io7025v | io73t7l | 1,663,029,000 | 1,663,030,632 | 14 | 32 | Maybe focus on the characters first and work out from them? What are their goals and how would those goals work in the world you've made? If you have a general tone based on these character's stories then it'll be easy to set up a world that fits the characters. A character's motivation is key to achieving a character that feels real. They need a reason to interact with the world and this will give people a reason to engage with a character. | Is it lack of substance or your style that you don’t like? I used to have very blunt, to-the-point writing that worked well for my homework. But, not so much for writing stories. I had to learn to describe things for the senses, and to help people see what I was seeing in my head when I wrote it down. As for structures, something I enjoyed is learning the basic plots. Like a Hero’s Journey. It gives you an idea of how some more popular plots go. https://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/basic-plots.html Here’s a site I found that talks about them. Also, look up 3 Act or 4 Act structure. I prefer the 4 Act, but both those give ideas for where to break your story. | 0 | 1,632 | 2.285714 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io74p24 | io7w670 | 1,663,031,009 | 1,663,043,974 | 7 | 10 | Get in the helicopter. Try to find the plot line. Then see who’s near it, interacting with it. Changing its course. That is your main character. Then look at the topography. That’s your setting. Then look over the horizon at what’s coming that’s your conflict. Then take it from there and let the consequences of each previous choice based on the observations propel your writing to a resolution - keeping the main character and the plot inexorably intertwined. Or your readers will wander if to a different landscape. | HEEEEY! I've just been going over this same question in my head. I'm an essay writer, and I'm very skilled in public speaking. However, I've struggled to translate that into *story*, because it's So different. I've been going through exercises that have been helpful: 1. Have a character WANT something. 2. Write a list of obstacles that can get in their way. Pick the most unexpected one. 3. Write a list of ways the character can try to overcome the obstacle. Pick the most unexpected solution. 4. Write a list of reasons the solution fails. Pick the most unexpected solution. 5. Eventually have them overcome. Or fail to overcome. The first time you do this, you'll have written a terrible story. But it'll be a story nonetheless. The key is writing conflict. We essay-writers have a habit of leading our readers down a very predictable path, or at least one where we bring them to a conclusion. There's not really any conflict, or mystery, or even unexpected truths. So we have to practice writing the opposite of that. | 0 | 12,965 | 1.428571 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io7oyh3 | io7w670 | 1,663,039,987 | 1,663,043,974 | 5 | 10 | Here's my take: essays require points of view and clarity. So do stories, but strangely, people tend to think that they should obscure what's going on in a story and focus on reveals. (This is my experience reading screenplays, at any rate.) Being good at essays should benefit you. | HEEEEY! I've just been going over this same question in my head. I'm an essay writer, and I'm very skilled in public speaking. However, I've struggled to translate that into *story*, because it's So different. I've been going through exercises that have been helpful: 1. Have a character WANT something. 2. Write a list of obstacles that can get in their way. Pick the most unexpected one. 3. Write a list of ways the character can try to overcome the obstacle. Pick the most unexpected solution. 4. Write a list of reasons the solution fails. Pick the most unexpected solution. 5. Eventually have them overcome. Or fail to overcome. The first time you do this, you'll have written a terrible story. But it'll be a story nonetheless. The key is writing conflict. We essay-writers have a habit of leading our readers down a very predictable path, or at least one where we bring them to a conclusion. There's not really any conflict, or mystery, or even unexpected truths. So we have to practice writing the opposite of that. | 0 | 3,987 | 2 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io84o4m | io7oyh3 | 1,663,049,714 | 1,663,039,987 | 7 | 5 | You need to understand what made you "good at essays" in the first place and then use those transferable kills. I, for instance, used to be really good at writing poetry and wanted to become really good at writing novelettes. I spent a long amount of time to see what made me good at writing poems and my introspection paid off. What made me really good was my work ethic, the fact that I sought out to read the works of greater poets and finally because I sacrificed half my family to Moloch, the unforgiving one. Having identified what made me a good poet, I started reading many great novelettes and I sacrificed the remaining half of my family (remember what I said about transferable kills) in exchange for increasing my novelette writing. I hope this helps. | Here's my take: essays require points of view and clarity. So do stories, but strangely, people tend to think that they should obscure what's going on in a story and focus on reveals. (This is my experience reading screenplays, at any rate.) Being good at essays should benefit you. | 1 | 9,727 | 1.4 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io7x0sy | io84o4m | 1,663,044,505 | 1,663,049,714 | 4 | 7 | If you're trying to write fantasy or science fiction, I'd recommend reading David Farland's Million Dollar Outlines book. You don't have to make the outline if you don't want to, but it really dives into what makes a solid story in those genres. Otherwise, just don't stop writing. Even if it feels foolish or like you're scribbling drivel. Simply by the act of writing, you'll improve your writing with time. But if you give up, you're not going to progress. If you don't like your style, try spending a little time each day copying by hand an author's work you aspire to write like. You'll soak up their style as you go. And I find if I'm having a problem with words, I can do this for 5-10 minutes and it gets the words flowing in my mind. | You need to understand what made you "good at essays" in the first place and then use those transferable kills. I, for instance, used to be really good at writing poetry and wanted to become really good at writing novelettes. I spent a long amount of time to see what made me good at writing poems and my introspection paid off. What made me really good was my work ethic, the fact that I sought out to read the works of greater poets and finally because I sacrificed half my family to Moloch, the unforgiving one. Having identified what made me a good poet, I started reading many great novelettes and I sacrificed the remaining half of my family (remember what I said about transferable kills) in exchange for increasing my novelette writing. I hope this helps. | 0 | 5,209 | 1.75 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io84o4m | io82gr2 | 1,663,049,714 | 1,663,048,124 | 7 | 5 | You need to understand what made you "good at essays" in the first place and then use those transferable kills. I, for instance, used to be really good at writing poetry and wanted to become really good at writing novelettes. I spent a long amount of time to see what made me good at writing poems and my introspection paid off. What made me really good was my work ethic, the fact that I sought out to read the works of greater poets and finally because I sacrificed half my family to Moloch, the unforgiving one. Having identified what made me a good poet, I started reading many great novelettes and I sacrificed the remaining half of my family (remember what I said about transferable kills) in exchange for increasing my novelette writing. I hope this helps. | I was a copywriter and non-fiction content writer for over 20 years. I went from there to creative writing thinking it would be easy. It is not. There's a whole lot more to creative writing than to writing an essay. All you can do is read the advice of credible people like KM Weiland, Janice Hardy, Writer's Digest, Reedsy Blog, etc. Do a search and fall down the Rabbit hole. My favorite site for mechanics is Purdue Owl. The advice that has helped me the most is the four Pillars of Story. This is how I start a story. Maybe it will work for you. We all know that a story needs characters (people) and that the character starts somewhere and ends up somewhere else (places) and that things and other characters help our Main Character on their way and others get in the way, causing conflicts for the MC. (Plot) The reader also needs to know why the MC is going, or wants to go, where they are headed. (Purpose). A document that has helped me enormously is one that defines the four pillars of story : People Place Purpose and Plot. I struggled awhile with purpose until I finally figured out it’s the why they want to go where they want to go. Once I got that, it became easier to start outlining the journey of a story. I start with one of the pillars and then build with the other four. Usually I start with character. I ask myself what my character wants, what do they have to do to get it, and who (or what) might stand in their way. I add other characters that can help my MC on his way or get in the way, and objects that may help and/or hinder the MC. What place is the MC in? Is it material and/or emotional. How might that place help or hinder them? Plot is the “how” it all happens. All the nasty little pitfalls and potholes, the hairpin turns and rubber band twists that make writing fun. How do they plan to get what they want? Are they clueless? Where might they find help? Where do they think they’re going? Success or failure may be at issue and they may find they end up in a place that they hadn’t considered at the start. Too bad, that’s the way the ball bounces, the cookie crumbles, boo-hoo. Now we know where they want to go and how they *think* they’ll get there. Why do they want to go there? That's the purpose. I list the possibilities and keep adding and red-lining used and dismissed ideas as the story develops. I write all of these elements down in a narrative, and then I add details and decide what descriptions and exposition I can turn into dialogue. That’s how I start. Since I started writing this way, I don't have writer's block. (Knock on wood, though. You never know where it may be lurking.) When I get to a type of thing that usually blocks me, I look at it as another conflict and look for ways to get around it. So far, it works. | 1 | 1,590 | 1.4 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io84o4m | io84awq | 1,663,049,714 | 1,663,049,442 | 7 | 2 | You need to understand what made you "good at essays" in the first place and then use those transferable kills. I, for instance, used to be really good at writing poetry and wanted to become really good at writing novelettes. I spent a long amount of time to see what made me good at writing poems and my introspection paid off. What made me really good was my work ethic, the fact that I sought out to read the works of greater poets and finally because I sacrificed half my family to Moloch, the unforgiving one. Having identified what made me a good poet, I started reading many great novelettes and I sacrificed the remaining half of my family (remember what I said about transferable kills) in exchange for increasing my novelette writing. I hope this helps. | Is the term 'plot bunnies' yours? | 1 | 272 | 3.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io8ju9f | io8d4bw | 1,663,062,407 | 1,663,056,540 | 4 | 3 | I’m not an expert but you aren’t improving if you aren’t trying. I’m kind of in the same boat, but what I realized is that the same skills I used to formulate paragraphs for essays still works, but I’m no longer counting the paragraphs as my talking points, instead scenes are my new measurements. In the same way an essay is leading it’s reader along to a conclusion so too is a novel and the scenes are driving that mechanism. The new question is how do I efficiently craft scenes that move the overall narrative… I’m still working on this one. It’s hard to get character growth, plot development and thematic elements all succinctly arranged. | Essays are essentially teleological and since you start out with the point you want to make, you typically structure essay writing with all the important stuff up front. Like this. But story telling is the opposite. Even if you are a planner not a panser (sp?) you begin on a journey and find out later where it takes you. Then you re write and re write to make it all flow better and the trick is not ruining the sense of discovery you had in the first draft as you do it. As an essayist you probably have a good metastructure of how to make a clear argument. With a story you have to make a mess first. | 1 | 5,867 | 1.333333 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io8ju9f | io84awq | 1,663,062,407 | 1,663,049,442 | 4 | 2 | I’m not an expert but you aren’t improving if you aren’t trying. I’m kind of in the same boat, but what I realized is that the same skills I used to formulate paragraphs for essays still works, but I’m no longer counting the paragraphs as my talking points, instead scenes are my new measurements. In the same way an essay is leading it’s reader along to a conclusion so too is a novel and the scenes are driving that mechanism. The new question is how do I efficiently craft scenes that move the overall narrative… I’m still working on this one. It’s hard to get character growth, plot development and thematic elements all succinctly arranged. | Is the term 'plot bunnies' yours? | 1 | 12,965 | 2 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io87imp | io8ju9f | 1,663,051,882 | 1,663,062,407 | 2 | 4 | I got better at telling stories when I started doing stand-up. I don’t do it anymore because I went to college and it’s 30 miles to the nearest comedy club, and I have class at eight in the morning after open-mic night, so that’s not happening. But, I found that if I have a hard clock of five minutes to get through something, that forces me to tighten up the writing while still hitting beats. It’s a journey, and there are parts that build and parts that don’t, and you have to close it before the clock hits zero. I don’t recommend doing stand-up to improve your storytelling, by the way. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean anyone should try it, because it is terrifying to go up in front of a crowd and tell a story. But, you might have a friend you hang out with, and you could tell stories to that person. Think about it this way: You ever hang out with a kid who’s maybe four years old or so, and they tell you a story and they have no idea where it’s going, but that doesn’t stop them? Kids are little pantsers. They have no shortage of stories, and they weirdly know how to build a climax. They just *know*. Storytelling is built into you; you just have to find it wherever kids do. They don’t care if it doesn’t make perfect sense; you can fix that in editing. So, here’s how I come up with stories for scripts these days: I come up with a plot, beginning to end, and not necessarily in that order. And I get the broad strokes, and I figure out how to tell that story in five minutes to a friend at the bar, and if he doesn’t immediately punch holes in it, I’ll knock out a script. Hash out the second draft, hand him a copy, and it comes back with red pen all over it (he has a pen just for this occasion) and anything from one sentence (“You wrote Die Hard in a medieval castle,” being the one I’ll certainly never forget) to two to five pages of handwritten comments on the backs of the last several pages. And then I usually don’t do a third draft, because I want to write something else. But the important thing is, I feel that any story can be told in five minutes. Take any movie or book that you know really well, and I guarantee you can tell it in five minutes, as long as the strokes are broad enough and you cover the major plot points. Don’t get bogged down in dialogue or character motivations or whatever. Can you tell the story in five minutes? Is the story good? If so, write it. And then, *any part* of a story can be told in five minutes. It’s a wholly reductive process that has replaced outlining for me, because by the time I start writing, I’ve tightened that story down to five minutes so many times that I know the plot back to front. And then it’s five minutes for the first act. And then it’s five minutes for the first chapter. I don’t write *anything* until that initial five minutes is done and polished. No notes, no character bios, *nothing.* If it’s important, it’s in the pitch. | I’m not an expert but you aren’t improving if you aren’t trying. I’m kind of in the same boat, but what I realized is that the same skills I used to formulate paragraphs for essays still works, but I’m no longer counting the paragraphs as my talking points, instead scenes are my new measurements. In the same way an essay is leading it’s reader along to a conclusion so too is a novel and the scenes are driving that mechanism. The new question is how do I efficiently craft scenes that move the overall narrative… I’m still working on this one. It’s hard to get character growth, plot development and thematic elements all succinctly arranged. | 0 | 10,525 | 2 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io7x0sy | io82gr2 | 1,663,044,505 | 1,663,048,124 | 4 | 5 | If you're trying to write fantasy or science fiction, I'd recommend reading David Farland's Million Dollar Outlines book. You don't have to make the outline if you don't want to, but it really dives into what makes a solid story in those genres. Otherwise, just don't stop writing. Even if it feels foolish or like you're scribbling drivel. Simply by the act of writing, you'll improve your writing with time. But if you give up, you're not going to progress. If you don't like your style, try spending a little time each day copying by hand an author's work you aspire to write like. You'll soak up their style as you go. And I find if I'm having a problem with words, I can do this for 5-10 minutes and it gets the words flowing in my mind. | I was a copywriter and non-fiction content writer for over 20 years. I went from there to creative writing thinking it would be easy. It is not. There's a whole lot more to creative writing than to writing an essay. All you can do is read the advice of credible people like KM Weiland, Janice Hardy, Writer's Digest, Reedsy Blog, etc. Do a search and fall down the Rabbit hole. My favorite site for mechanics is Purdue Owl. The advice that has helped me the most is the four Pillars of Story. This is how I start a story. Maybe it will work for you. We all know that a story needs characters (people) and that the character starts somewhere and ends up somewhere else (places) and that things and other characters help our Main Character on their way and others get in the way, causing conflicts for the MC. (Plot) The reader also needs to know why the MC is going, or wants to go, where they are headed. (Purpose). A document that has helped me enormously is one that defines the four pillars of story : People Place Purpose and Plot. I struggled awhile with purpose until I finally figured out it’s the why they want to go where they want to go. Once I got that, it became easier to start outlining the journey of a story. I start with one of the pillars and then build with the other four. Usually I start with character. I ask myself what my character wants, what do they have to do to get it, and who (or what) might stand in their way. I add other characters that can help my MC on his way or get in the way, and objects that may help and/or hinder the MC. What place is the MC in? Is it material and/or emotional. How might that place help or hinder them? Plot is the “how” it all happens. All the nasty little pitfalls and potholes, the hairpin turns and rubber band twists that make writing fun. How do they plan to get what they want? Are they clueless? Where might they find help? Where do they think they’re going? Success or failure may be at issue and they may find they end up in a place that they hadn’t considered at the start. Too bad, that’s the way the ball bounces, the cookie crumbles, boo-hoo. Now we know where they want to go and how they *think* they’ll get there. Why do they want to go there? That's the purpose. I list the possibilities and keep adding and red-lining used and dismissed ideas as the story develops. I write all of these elements down in a narrative, and then I add details and decide what descriptions and exposition I can turn into dialogue. That’s how I start. Since I started writing this way, I don't have writer's block. (Knock on wood, though. You never know where it may be lurking.) When I get to a type of thing that usually blocks me, I look at it as another conflict and look for ways to get around it. So far, it works. | 0 | 3,619 | 1.25 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io84awq | io8d4bw | 1,663,049,442 | 1,663,056,540 | 2 | 3 | Is the term 'plot bunnies' yours? | Essays are essentially teleological and since you start out with the point you want to make, you typically structure essay writing with all the important stuff up front. Like this. But story telling is the opposite. Even if you are a planner not a panser (sp?) you begin on a journey and find out later where it takes you. Then you re write and re write to make it all flow better and the trick is not ruining the sense of discovery you had in the first draft as you do it. As an essayist you probably have a good metastructure of how to make a clear argument. With a story you have to make a mess first. | 0 | 7,098 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io87imp | io8d4bw | 1,663,051,882 | 1,663,056,540 | 2 | 3 | I got better at telling stories when I started doing stand-up. I don’t do it anymore because I went to college and it’s 30 miles to the nearest comedy club, and I have class at eight in the morning after open-mic night, so that’s not happening. But, I found that if I have a hard clock of five minutes to get through something, that forces me to tighten up the writing while still hitting beats. It’s a journey, and there are parts that build and parts that don’t, and you have to close it before the clock hits zero. I don’t recommend doing stand-up to improve your storytelling, by the way. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean anyone should try it, because it is terrifying to go up in front of a crowd and tell a story. But, you might have a friend you hang out with, and you could tell stories to that person. Think about it this way: You ever hang out with a kid who’s maybe four years old or so, and they tell you a story and they have no idea where it’s going, but that doesn’t stop them? Kids are little pantsers. They have no shortage of stories, and they weirdly know how to build a climax. They just *know*. Storytelling is built into you; you just have to find it wherever kids do. They don’t care if it doesn’t make perfect sense; you can fix that in editing. So, here’s how I come up with stories for scripts these days: I come up with a plot, beginning to end, and not necessarily in that order. And I get the broad strokes, and I figure out how to tell that story in five minutes to a friend at the bar, and if he doesn’t immediately punch holes in it, I’ll knock out a script. Hash out the second draft, hand him a copy, and it comes back with red pen all over it (he has a pen just for this occasion) and anything from one sentence (“You wrote Die Hard in a medieval castle,” being the one I’ll certainly never forget) to two to five pages of handwritten comments on the backs of the last several pages. And then I usually don’t do a third draft, because I want to write something else. But the important thing is, I feel that any story can be told in five minutes. Take any movie or book that you know really well, and I guarantee you can tell it in five minutes, as long as the strokes are broad enough and you cover the major plot points. Don’t get bogged down in dialogue or character motivations or whatever. Can you tell the story in five minutes? Is the story good? If so, write it. And then, *any part* of a story can be told in five minutes. It’s a wholly reductive process that has replaced outlining for me, because by the time I start writing, I’ve tightened that story down to five minutes so many times that I know the plot back to front. And then it’s five minutes for the first act. And then it’s five minutes for the first chapter. I don’t write *anything* until that initial five minutes is done and polished. No notes, no character bios, *nothing.* If it’s important, it’s in the pitch. | Essays are essentially teleological and since you start out with the point you want to make, you typically structure essay writing with all the important stuff up front. Like this. But story telling is the opposite. Even if you are a planner not a panser (sp?) you begin on a journey and find out later where it takes you. Then you re write and re write to make it all flow better and the trick is not ruining the sense of discovery you had in the first draft as you do it. As an essayist you probably have a good metastructure of how to make a clear argument. With a story you have to make a mess first. | 0 | 4,658 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io8lqhz | io84awq | 1,663,063,942 | 1,663,049,442 | 3 | 2 | If you're good at writing essays, try using that. I've often found that a story's theme is more often than not just an essay title, and the story's main character is arguing one point while the antagonists are arguing the other. Each plot point is something that supports or scrutinizes one argument or the other, and the ending is your conclusion. | Is the term 'plot bunnies' yours? | 1 | 14,500 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io8lqhz | io87imp | 1,663,063,942 | 1,663,051,882 | 3 | 2 | If you're good at writing essays, try using that. I've often found that a story's theme is more often than not just an essay title, and the story's main character is arguing one point while the antagonists are arguing the other. Each plot point is something that supports or scrutinizes one argument or the other, and the ending is your conclusion. | I got better at telling stories when I started doing stand-up. I don’t do it anymore because I went to college and it’s 30 miles to the nearest comedy club, and I have class at eight in the morning after open-mic night, so that’s not happening. But, I found that if I have a hard clock of five minutes to get through something, that forces me to tighten up the writing while still hitting beats. It’s a journey, and there are parts that build and parts that don’t, and you have to close it before the clock hits zero. I don’t recommend doing stand-up to improve your storytelling, by the way. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean anyone should try it, because it is terrifying to go up in front of a crowd and tell a story. But, you might have a friend you hang out with, and you could tell stories to that person. Think about it this way: You ever hang out with a kid who’s maybe four years old or so, and they tell you a story and they have no idea where it’s going, but that doesn’t stop them? Kids are little pantsers. They have no shortage of stories, and they weirdly know how to build a climax. They just *know*. Storytelling is built into you; you just have to find it wherever kids do. They don’t care if it doesn’t make perfect sense; you can fix that in editing. So, here’s how I come up with stories for scripts these days: I come up with a plot, beginning to end, and not necessarily in that order. And I get the broad strokes, and I figure out how to tell that story in five minutes to a friend at the bar, and if he doesn’t immediately punch holes in it, I’ll knock out a script. Hash out the second draft, hand him a copy, and it comes back with red pen all over it (he has a pen just for this occasion) and anything from one sentence (“You wrote Die Hard in a medieval castle,” being the one I’ll certainly never forget) to two to five pages of handwritten comments on the backs of the last several pages. And then I usually don’t do a third draft, because I want to write something else. But the important thing is, I feel that any story can be told in five minutes. Take any movie or book that you know really well, and I guarantee you can tell it in five minutes, as long as the strokes are broad enough and you cover the major plot points. Don’t get bogged down in dialogue or character motivations or whatever. Can you tell the story in five minutes? Is the story good? If so, write it. And then, *any part* of a story can be told in five minutes. It’s a wholly reductive process that has replaced outlining for me, because by the time I start writing, I’ve tightened that story down to five minutes so many times that I know the plot back to front. And then it’s five minutes for the first act. And then it’s five minutes for the first chapter. I don’t write *anything* until that initial five minutes is done and polished. No notes, no character bios, *nothing.* If it’s important, it’s in the pitch. | 1 | 12,060 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io84awq | io8prer | 1,663,049,442 | 1,663,066,814 | 2 | 3 | Is the term 'plot bunnies' yours? | This is exactly what I struggle with! I have won awards for my writing in research papers but found my creative writing was a little too blunt and concise. I am an avid reader and reading in my genre has helped with the grammar and style points that were rusty from research writing. I also highly recommend The Emotional Craft of fiction. It’s small, well written, and very helpful! I also fell into the trap of telling rather than showing in my writing and struggled to tell the difference but had my “aha!” Moment reading that book. | 0 | 17,372 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io87imp | io8prer | 1,663,051,882 | 1,663,066,814 | 2 | 3 | I got better at telling stories when I started doing stand-up. I don’t do it anymore because I went to college and it’s 30 miles to the nearest comedy club, and I have class at eight in the morning after open-mic night, so that’s not happening. But, I found that if I have a hard clock of five minutes to get through something, that forces me to tighten up the writing while still hitting beats. It’s a journey, and there are parts that build and parts that don’t, and you have to close it before the clock hits zero. I don’t recommend doing stand-up to improve your storytelling, by the way. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean anyone should try it, because it is terrifying to go up in front of a crowd and tell a story. But, you might have a friend you hang out with, and you could tell stories to that person. Think about it this way: You ever hang out with a kid who’s maybe four years old or so, and they tell you a story and they have no idea where it’s going, but that doesn’t stop them? Kids are little pantsers. They have no shortage of stories, and they weirdly know how to build a climax. They just *know*. Storytelling is built into you; you just have to find it wherever kids do. They don’t care if it doesn’t make perfect sense; you can fix that in editing. So, here’s how I come up with stories for scripts these days: I come up with a plot, beginning to end, and not necessarily in that order. And I get the broad strokes, and I figure out how to tell that story in five minutes to a friend at the bar, and if he doesn’t immediately punch holes in it, I’ll knock out a script. Hash out the second draft, hand him a copy, and it comes back with red pen all over it (he has a pen just for this occasion) and anything from one sentence (“You wrote Die Hard in a medieval castle,” being the one I’ll certainly never forget) to two to five pages of handwritten comments on the backs of the last several pages. And then I usually don’t do a third draft, because I want to write something else. But the important thing is, I feel that any story can be told in five minutes. Take any movie or book that you know really well, and I guarantee you can tell it in five minutes, as long as the strokes are broad enough and you cover the major plot points. Don’t get bogged down in dialogue or character motivations or whatever. Can you tell the story in five minutes? Is the story good? If so, write it. And then, *any part* of a story can be told in five minutes. It’s a wholly reductive process that has replaced outlining for me, because by the time I start writing, I’ve tightened that story down to five minutes so many times that I know the plot back to front. And then it’s five minutes for the first act. And then it’s five minutes for the first chapter. I don’t write *anything* until that initial five minutes is done and polished. No notes, no character bios, *nothing.* If it’s important, it’s in the pitch. | This is exactly what I struggle with! I have won awards for my writing in research papers but found my creative writing was a little too blunt and concise. I am an avid reader and reading in my genre has helped with the grammar and style points that were rusty from research writing. I also highly recommend The Emotional Craft of fiction. It’s small, well written, and very helpful! I also fell into the trap of telling rather than showing in my writing and struggled to tell the difference but had my “aha!” Moment reading that book. | 0 | 14,932 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io9jqc6 | io84awq | 1,663,080,843 | 1,663,049,442 | 3 | 2 | I would say start with short stories/flash fictions. write a scene. explore a single aspect of a character. then later on expand and maybe write a couple of linked scenes. eventually make a complete story out of the shorts you created. | Is the term 'plot bunnies' yours? | 1 | 31,401 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io9jqc6 | io87imp | 1,663,080,843 | 1,663,051,882 | 3 | 2 | I would say start with short stories/flash fictions. write a scene. explore a single aspect of a character. then later on expand and maybe write a couple of linked scenes. eventually make a complete story out of the shorts you created. | I got better at telling stories when I started doing stand-up. I don’t do it anymore because I went to college and it’s 30 miles to the nearest comedy club, and I have class at eight in the morning after open-mic night, so that’s not happening. But, I found that if I have a hard clock of five minutes to get through something, that forces me to tighten up the writing while still hitting beats. It’s a journey, and there are parts that build and parts that don’t, and you have to close it before the clock hits zero. I don’t recommend doing stand-up to improve your storytelling, by the way. Just because it worked for me doesn’t mean anyone should try it, because it is terrifying to go up in front of a crowd and tell a story. But, you might have a friend you hang out with, and you could tell stories to that person. Think about it this way: You ever hang out with a kid who’s maybe four years old or so, and they tell you a story and they have no idea where it’s going, but that doesn’t stop them? Kids are little pantsers. They have no shortage of stories, and they weirdly know how to build a climax. They just *know*. Storytelling is built into you; you just have to find it wherever kids do. They don’t care if it doesn’t make perfect sense; you can fix that in editing. So, here’s how I come up with stories for scripts these days: I come up with a plot, beginning to end, and not necessarily in that order. And I get the broad strokes, and I figure out how to tell that story in five minutes to a friend at the bar, and if he doesn’t immediately punch holes in it, I’ll knock out a script. Hash out the second draft, hand him a copy, and it comes back with red pen all over it (he has a pen just for this occasion) and anything from one sentence (“You wrote Die Hard in a medieval castle,” being the one I’ll certainly never forget) to two to five pages of handwritten comments on the backs of the last several pages. And then I usually don’t do a third draft, because I want to write something else. But the important thing is, I feel that any story can be told in five minutes. Take any movie or book that you know really well, and I guarantee you can tell it in five minutes, as long as the strokes are broad enough and you cover the major plot points. Don’t get bogged down in dialogue or character motivations or whatever. Can you tell the story in five minutes? Is the story good? If so, write it. And then, *any part* of a story can be told in five minutes. It’s a wholly reductive process that has replaced outlining for me, because by the time I start writing, I’ve tightened that story down to five minutes so many times that I know the plot back to front. And then it’s five minutes for the first act. And then it’s five minutes for the first chapter. I don’t write *anything* until that initial five minutes is done and polished. No notes, no character bios, *nothing.* If it’s important, it’s in the pitch. | 1 | 28,961 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io9jqc6 | io8uxwv | 1,663,080,843 | 1,663,070,027 | 3 | 2 | I would say start with short stories/flash fictions. write a scene. explore a single aspect of a character. then later on expand and maybe write a couple of linked scenes. eventually make a complete story out of the shorts you created. | Read *Writing for Story*, by Jon Franklin. He was a two-time Pulitzer winning journalist. He wrote long-form science features, so he studied writers like Chekhov to figure out how to do what they did. I also recommend Robert McKee's books. *Story* is an obvious one, but you can read *Dialogue* and learn about both story and dialogue at the same time. After that, it's practice, practice, practice. | 1 | 10,816 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io8wkyg | io9jqc6 | 1,663,070,939 | 1,663,080,843 | 2 | 3 | Read more fiction obviously. | I would say start with short stories/flash fictions. write a scene. explore a single aspect of a character. then later on expand and maybe write a couple of linked scenes. eventually make a complete story out of the shorts you created. | 0 | 9,904 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io9jqc6 | io94xmx | 1,663,080,843 | 1,663,074,894 | 3 | 2 | I would say start with short stories/flash fictions. write a scene. explore a single aspect of a character. then later on expand and maybe write a couple of linked scenes. eventually make a complete story out of the shorts you created. | I’m the same way, and have decided to write historical fiction because it gives me enough context to work with that I can develop my creative writing muscles without feeling too much like a fish flopping on the floor without water. | 1 | 5,949 | 1.5 | ||
xcsk6k | writing_train | 0.95 | How do I go from “good at essays” writing to “good at storytelling” writing As it says in the title, I’m wondering how I could go about from good at writing essays to good at writing stories. My only few pieces of writing that holds any semblance to a story has been plot bunnies that never got anywhere and one-liners/pieces of dialogues and scenes I’ve always wanted to incorporate into an actual piece of story. I write all of the aforementioned in a google docs purely for the purpose of someday possibly achieving the miraculous and incorporating them into a story. Every time I make an attempt at fleshing out some writing that seems like it could actually become something, I ultimately look at it and feel utterly foolish at having written such an empty space of nothing. I’m wondering if there were helpful tips about how and where to start with writing a good story, structures and when to break them and all that type of stuff. | io997pv | io9jqc6 | 1,663,076,721 | 1,663,080,843 | 2 | 3 | Just be postmodern and write a series of essays discussing a series of fictional events from different points of view and let the readers interpret what happened from them. | I would say start with short stories/flash fictions. write a scene. explore a single aspect of a character. then later on expand and maybe write a couple of linked scenes. eventually make a complete story out of the shorts you created. | 0 | 4,122 | 1.5 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imvlxky | imvyspq | 1,662,171,170 | 1,662,178,052 | 8 | 19 | Notebooks and pens. Write down everything on paper during your developmental process. Save the computer typing for when you're ready to go to first draft. Take your time. If you're not doing this as a career move, then there's no pressure. Take your time. Write until you get tired. Maybe try setting up a folding table in front of the couch. Write until you get tired. Push the table back and just rest on the couch until you're ready to write more or put everything away for the day. Does any of this help? | maybe start with shorter things, stories and poem or essays or blog posts. anything to get back in the habit and build up your stamina. Stephen King wrote one of his novels by hand, after he was struck and seriously injured by a drunk driver. King went out for a regular walk on the sideroads hear his home and got smashed, he was in a bad way for a long time. he said writing by hand was therapeutic. IIRC the novel was Dreamcatcher. | 0 | 6,882 | 2.375 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imvyspq | imvysh4 | 1,662,178,052 | 1,662,178,048 | 19 | 4 | maybe start with shorter things, stories and poem or essays or blog posts. anything to get back in the habit and build up your stamina. Stephen King wrote one of his novels by hand, after he was struck and seriously injured by a drunk driver. King went out for a regular walk on the sideroads hear his home and got smashed, he was in a bad way for a long time. he said writing by hand was therapeutic. IIRC the novel was Dreamcatcher. | I’ve been raising awareness for people with skills in deep learning biology for the BRAIN Initiative since the mind is the sixth warfare domain after land, sea, air, cyber, and space. The sooner we can learn to fix brain trauma, the better. | 1 | 4 | 4.75 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxqnbl | imvysh4 | 1,662,219,155 | 1,662,178,048 | 5 | 4 | Try creating and sticking to a schedule like this: 1. Managing low mental energy is tricky. One of the most important things is to declare that you're done for the day with a clean conscience, as if the factory whistle has blown and you're *required* to put down your tools, clock out, and leave. Another important thing, of course, is to start. 2. Pick a project you can sit down and just write when you're firing on almost all cylinders (with little or no outlining, research, or fact-checking, or with these already done). Extra credit for choosing a project that's neither very long nor very ambitious. That's for later. 3. Schedule a ridiculously short period for writing: say, ten minutes of actually writing new words at the end of the work-in-progress. Pick either a time of day or a circumstance that stacks the odds in your favor: "after my second cup of coffee," for instance. 4. Open your draft and read yesterday's contribution, or the chapter so far, or the previous chapter and the chapter so far, or something. This doesn't count toward your writing time, but it gets your head on straight. (The "never look back" advice is for people who are crippled by fear or indecision. Getting your brain in gear calls for different methods.) 5. If editing or revising your existing material drains all your energy, adopt a "no editing" rule for this read-through, or a "highlight but don't fix" rule. But if you can clean up the stuff that needs it and still get your new words down, you can do that. No point wincing at the same typo a hundred times. 6. Save a copy of your work-in-progress. I use date codes in my file names, like "flavia20220903." I rarely need to revert to an older version, but I do sometimes, and the ability to do this makes me more fearless. (I don't place much faith in automatic version control, so I do it manually.) 7. Write for the specified period, treating it as a game: can you write something good or interesting or appropriate in a measly ten minutes? No writer who has ever lived will succeed at this every time, so why should you? But that's not the point. Ending the period with at least one new sentence that may not discard later is victory. 8. At the end of the period ... it depends. Give yourself an option for another round and see what happens. Don't be too surprised if a modest increase in your work day leaves you wrecked the next day, at least at first. There's a lot of cut-and-try here. But maybe giving yourself the option for another round or two, if you feel up to it, or having no upper bound, will work. Similarly, you may want a short break between rounds: not enough to get you out of writing mode, but enough to recharge a little. Try it different ways. 9. Consider scheduling a different time for editing and revision. The energy for this tends to come out of a different pocket. 10. Multiple writing sprints per day with long periods between them may also work. | I’ve been raising awareness for people with skills in deep learning biology for the BRAIN Initiative since the mind is the sixth warfare domain after land, sea, air, cyber, and space. The sooner we can learn to fix brain trauma, the better. | 1 | 41,107 | 1.25 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxqnbl | imwkwn4 | 1,662,219,155 | 1,662,194,522 | 5 | 3 | Try creating and sticking to a schedule like this: 1. Managing low mental energy is tricky. One of the most important things is to declare that you're done for the day with a clean conscience, as if the factory whistle has blown and you're *required* to put down your tools, clock out, and leave. Another important thing, of course, is to start. 2. Pick a project you can sit down and just write when you're firing on almost all cylinders (with little or no outlining, research, or fact-checking, or with these already done). Extra credit for choosing a project that's neither very long nor very ambitious. That's for later. 3. Schedule a ridiculously short period for writing: say, ten minutes of actually writing new words at the end of the work-in-progress. Pick either a time of day or a circumstance that stacks the odds in your favor: "after my second cup of coffee," for instance. 4. Open your draft and read yesterday's contribution, or the chapter so far, or the previous chapter and the chapter so far, or something. This doesn't count toward your writing time, but it gets your head on straight. (The "never look back" advice is for people who are crippled by fear or indecision. Getting your brain in gear calls for different methods.) 5. If editing or revising your existing material drains all your energy, adopt a "no editing" rule for this read-through, or a "highlight but don't fix" rule. But if you can clean up the stuff that needs it and still get your new words down, you can do that. No point wincing at the same typo a hundred times. 6. Save a copy of your work-in-progress. I use date codes in my file names, like "flavia20220903." I rarely need to revert to an older version, but I do sometimes, and the ability to do this makes me more fearless. (I don't place much faith in automatic version control, so I do it manually.) 7. Write for the specified period, treating it as a game: can you write something good or interesting or appropriate in a measly ten minutes? No writer who has ever lived will succeed at this every time, so why should you? But that's not the point. Ending the period with at least one new sentence that may not discard later is victory. 8. At the end of the period ... it depends. Give yourself an option for another round and see what happens. Don't be too surprised if a modest increase in your work day leaves you wrecked the next day, at least at first. There's a lot of cut-and-try here. But maybe giving yourself the option for another round or two, if you feel up to it, or having no upper bound, will work. Similarly, you may want a short break between rounds: not enough to get you out of writing mode, but enough to recharge a little. Try it different ways. 9. Consider scheduling a different time for editing and revision. The energy for this tends to come out of a different pocket. 10. Multiple writing sprints per day with long periods between them may also work. | Google docs and your phone. :) That way it's not such a big deal and you can just whip it out whenever you're feeling the inspo. :) | 1 | 24,633 | 1.666667 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxqnbl | imwtfak | 1,662,219,155 | 1,662,201,693 | 5 | 3 | Try creating and sticking to a schedule like this: 1. Managing low mental energy is tricky. One of the most important things is to declare that you're done for the day with a clean conscience, as if the factory whistle has blown and you're *required* to put down your tools, clock out, and leave. Another important thing, of course, is to start. 2. Pick a project you can sit down and just write when you're firing on almost all cylinders (with little or no outlining, research, or fact-checking, or with these already done). Extra credit for choosing a project that's neither very long nor very ambitious. That's for later. 3. Schedule a ridiculously short period for writing: say, ten minutes of actually writing new words at the end of the work-in-progress. Pick either a time of day or a circumstance that stacks the odds in your favor: "after my second cup of coffee," for instance. 4. Open your draft and read yesterday's contribution, or the chapter so far, or the previous chapter and the chapter so far, or something. This doesn't count toward your writing time, but it gets your head on straight. (The "never look back" advice is for people who are crippled by fear or indecision. Getting your brain in gear calls for different methods.) 5. If editing or revising your existing material drains all your energy, adopt a "no editing" rule for this read-through, or a "highlight but don't fix" rule. But if you can clean up the stuff that needs it and still get your new words down, you can do that. No point wincing at the same typo a hundred times. 6. Save a copy of your work-in-progress. I use date codes in my file names, like "flavia20220903." I rarely need to revert to an older version, but I do sometimes, and the ability to do this makes me more fearless. (I don't place much faith in automatic version control, so I do it manually.) 7. Write for the specified period, treating it as a game: can you write something good or interesting or appropriate in a measly ten minutes? No writer who has ever lived will succeed at this every time, so why should you? But that's not the point. Ending the period with at least one new sentence that may not discard later is victory. 8. At the end of the period ... it depends. Give yourself an option for another round and see what happens. Don't be too surprised if a modest increase in your work day leaves you wrecked the next day, at least at first. There's a lot of cut-and-try here. But maybe giving yourself the option for another round or two, if you feel up to it, or having no upper bound, will work. Similarly, you may want a short break between rounds: not enough to get you out of writing mode, but enough to recharge a little. Try it different ways. 9. Consider scheduling a different time for editing and revision. The energy for this tends to come out of a different pocket. 10. Multiple writing sprints per day with long periods between them may also work. | I've had a few TBI, including amnesia, and writing has helped a lot with mood and memory. Just take it easy, don't push it but maybe try to block out half an hour a day to just get even a few words one. Once you start you'll either get into it or not, if you're not you can stop after half an hour. It's the starting that's important. | 1 | 17,462 | 1.666667 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxqnbl | imwpqxw | 1,662,219,155 | 1,662,198,663 | 5 | 1 | Try creating and sticking to a schedule like this: 1. Managing low mental energy is tricky. One of the most important things is to declare that you're done for the day with a clean conscience, as if the factory whistle has blown and you're *required* to put down your tools, clock out, and leave. Another important thing, of course, is to start. 2. Pick a project you can sit down and just write when you're firing on almost all cylinders (with little or no outlining, research, or fact-checking, or with these already done). Extra credit for choosing a project that's neither very long nor very ambitious. That's for later. 3. Schedule a ridiculously short period for writing: say, ten minutes of actually writing new words at the end of the work-in-progress. Pick either a time of day or a circumstance that stacks the odds in your favor: "after my second cup of coffee," for instance. 4. Open your draft and read yesterday's contribution, or the chapter so far, or the previous chapter and the chapter so far, or something. This doesn't count toward your writing time, but it gets your head on straight. (The "never look back" advice is for people who are crippled by fear or indecision. Getting your brain in gear calls for different methods.) 5. If editing or revising your existing material drains all your energy, adopt a "no editing" rule for this read-through, or a "highlight but don't fix" rule. But if you can clean up the stuff that needs it and still get your new words down, you can do that. No point wincing at the same typo a hundred times. 6. Save a copy of your work-in-progress. I use date codes in my file names, like "flavia20220903." I rarely need to revert to an older version, but I do sometimes, and the ability to do this makes me more fearless. (I don't place much faith in automatic version control, so I do it manually.) 7. Write for the specified period, treating it as a game: can you write something good or interesting or appropriate in a measly ten minutes? No writer who has ever lived will succeed at this every time, so why should you? But that's not the point. Ending the period with at least one new sentence that may not discard later is victory. 8. At the end of the period ... it depends. Give yourself an option for another round and see what happens. Don't be too surprised if a modest increase in your work day leaves you wrecked the next day, at least at first. There's a lot of cut-and-try here. But maybe giving yourself the option for another round or two, if you feel up to it, or having no upper bound, will work. Similarly, you may want a short break between rounds: not enough to get you out of writing mode, but enough to recharge a little. Try it different ways. 9. Consider scheduling a different time for editing and revision. The energy for this tends to come out of a different pocket. 10. Multiple writing sprints per day with long periods between them may also work. | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | 1 | 20,492 | 5 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxh1om | imxqnbl | 1,662,215,056 | 1,662,219,155 | 1 | 5 | Hey I had something similar, and having a scheduled time where I could sit down with no noises or distractions and a snack helped me immensely. | Try creating and sticking to a schedule like this: 1. Managing low mental energy is tricky. One of the most important things is to declare that you're done for the day with a clean conscience, as if the factory whistle has blown and you're *required* to put down your tools, clock out, and leave. Another important thing, of course, is to start. 2. Pick a project you can sit down and just write when you're firing on almost all cylinders (with little or no outlining, research, or fact-checking, or with these already done). Extra credit for choosing a project that's neither very long nor very ambitious. That's for later. 3. Schedule a ridiculously short period for writing: say, ten minutes of actually writing new words at the end of the work-in-progress. Pick either a time of day or a circumstance that stacks the odds in your favor: "after my second cup of coffee," for instance. 4. Open your draft and read yesterday's contribution, or the chapter so far, or the previous chapter and the chapter so far, or something. This doesn't count toward your writing time, but it gets your head on straight. (The "never look back" advice is for people who are crippled by fear or indecision. Getting your brain in gear calls for different methods.) 5. If editing or revising your existing material drains all your energy, adopt a "no editing" rule for this read-through, or a "highlight but don't fix" rule. But if you can clean up the stuff that needs it and still get your new words down, you can do that. No point wincing at the same typo a hundred times. 6. Save a copy of your work-in-progress. I use date codes in my file names, like "flavia20220903." I rarely need to revert to an older version, but I do sometimes, and the ability to do this makes me more fearless. (I don't place much faith in automatic version control, so I do it manually.) 7. Write for the specified period, treating it as a game: can you write something good or interesting or appropriate in a measly ten minutes? No writer who has ever lived will succeed at this every time, so why should you? But that's not the point. Ending the period with at least one new sentence that may not discard later is victory. 8. At the end of the period ... it depends. Give yourself an option for another round and see what happens. Don't be too surprised if a modest increase in your work day leaves you wrecked the next day, at least at first. There's a lot of cut-and-try here. But maybe giving yourself the option for another round or two, if you feel up to it, or having no upper bound, will work. Similarly, you may want a short break between rounds: not enough to get you out of writing mode, but enough to recharge a little. Try it different ways. 9. Consider scheduling a different time for editing and revision. The energy for this tends to come out of a different pocket. 10. Multiple writing sprints per day with long periods between them may also work. | 0 | 4,099 | 5 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imwpqxw | imwtfak | 1,662,198,663 | 1,662,201,693 | 1 | 3 | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | I've had a few TBI, including amnesia, and writing has helped a lot with mood and memory. Just take it easy, don't push it but maybe try to block out half an hour a day to just get even a few words one. Once you start you'll either get into it or not, if you're not you can stop after half an hour. It's the starting that's important. | 0 | 3,030 | 3 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imwpqxw | imyian2 | 1,662,198,663 | 1,662,230,400 | 1 | 3 | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | I’ve had brain injury before. Give your brain time to heal and help it repair itself towards a reader/writer mindset. I started reading small children books and novels at first and slowly increased to something more complex. I started reading complex books I’ve read multiple times before, like les miserables and my writing started to come back! I am now an even better writer than when I got into my accident. | 0 | 31,737 | 3 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxh1om | imyian2 | 1,662,215,056 | 1,662,230,400 | 1 | 3 | Hey I had something similar, and having a scheduled time where I could sit down with no noises or distractions and a snack helped me immensely. | I’ve had brain injury before. Give your brain time to heal and help it repair itself towards a reader/writer mindset. I started reading small children books and novels at first and slowly increased to something more complex. I started reading complex books I’ve read multiple times before, like les miserables and my writing started to come back! I am now an even better writer than when I got into my accident. | 0 | 15,344 | 3 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imy00zt | imyian2 | 1,662,222,926 | 1,662,230,400 | 1 | 3 | Like others have said, I’d definitely try recording your thoughts to audio. Just let the thoughts flow when you’re walking or lounging and listen later. The hardest part is training your mouth to flow as quickly as your thoughts, and not let (if someone else is around) yourself get worried about being judged. | I’ve had brain injury before. Give your brain time to heal and help it repair itself towards a reader/writer mindset. I started reading small children books and novels at first and slowly increased to something more complex. I started reading complex books I’ve read multiple times before, like les miserables and my writing started to come back! I am now an even better writer than when I got into my accident. | 0 | 7,474 | 3 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imymanu | imwpqxw | 1,662,232,073 | 1,662,198,663 | 2 | 1 | Three years ago I had a stroke resulting in the need for brain surgery. I was hard. I had reached the point where I was publishing and selling and working full time as a ghost-writer. I was writing about 10k a day. Which is a lot. A damn lot. A damn lot to keep in your head -- but it was working. Then stroke. Bye-bye big memory. I started with working on my memory techniques and getting involved with a counselor who practices cognitive therapy. This last was because I misunderstood cognitive therapy -- but it was a good if serendipitous decision. I could still type, if slower and had to pay more attention to the keys again. And I wasn't drooling out the side of my mouth, so that was two good things. I decided that writing was the big thing. But I wouldn't start with stories. I would type and write but not worry much about composing for the first three months. I would get a book that I enjoyed and would copy out of that for two hours(timed by my Alexa). Then I would play on https://relatedwords.org/ or https://www.onelook.com/spruce/ for an hour... just playing with words and phrases. Building vocabularies and stuff. Then two more hours typing. This retrained me to sit and focus for several hours on a dense task like writing. Yes, I was just copying, but my brain is a writer's mind. It follows subplots and looks forward into the story seeking where characters are going, what their arcs are, what their goals and fears were. It's been three years and I can now consistently write 5k a day. I haven't gotten faster than that. I've had to focus re-learn some grammar and some technique -- ok... a lot of technique, but it is coming back. Last year I completed the NaNoWriMo, and was embarrassingly happy about it. This year, two clients have gushed about my ghostwriting work. So, it's getting better and improving. Just keep writing. Don't stop. As you say, we're in maintenance mode. We're not getting better. That part of our life is done. What matters now is how we use this life. hope that helps. \*added Oh, look up the Major system, the Memory Palace, and a book called Moon Walking with Einstein | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | 1 | 33,410 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxh1om | imymanu | 1,662,215,056 | 1,662,232,073 | 1 | 2 | Hey I had something similar, and having a scheduled time where I could sit down with no noises or distractions and a snack helped me immensely. | Three years ago I had a stroke resulting in the need for brain surgery. I was hard. I had reached the point where I was publishing and selling and working full time as a ghost-writer. I was writing about 10k a day. Which is a lot. A damn lot. A damn lot to keep in your head -- but it was working. Then stroke. Bye-bye big memory. I started with working on my memory techniques and getting involved with a counselor who practices cognitive therapy. This last was because I misunderstood cognitive therapy -- but it was a good if serendipitous decision. I could still type, if slower and had to pay more attention to the keys again. And I wasn't drooling out the side of my mouth, so that was two good things. I decided that writing was the big thing. But I wouldn't start with stories. I would type and write but not worry much about composing for the first three months. I would get a book that I enjoyed and would copy out of that for two hours(timed by my Alexa). Then I would play on https://relatedwords.org/ or https://www.onelook.com/spruce/ for an hour... just playing with words and phrases. Building vocabularies and stuff. Then two more hours typing. This retrained me to sit and focus for several hours on a dense task like writing. Yes, I was just copying, but my brain is a writer's mind. It follows subplots and looks forward into the story seeking where characters are going, what their arcs are, what their goals and fears were. It's been three years and I can now consistently write 5k a day. I haven't gotten faster than that. I've had to focus re-learn some grammar and some technique -- ok... a lot of technique, but it is coming back. Last year I completed the NaNoWriMo, and was embarrassingly happy about it. This year, two clients have gushed about my ghostwriting work. So, it's getting better and improving. Just keep writing. Don't stop. As you say, we're in maintenance mode. We're not getting better. That part of our life is done. What matters now is how we use this life. hope that helps. \*added Oh, look up the Major system, the Memory Palace, and a book called Moon Walking with Einstein | 0 | 17,017 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imy00zt | imymanu | 1,662,222,926 | 1,662,232,073 | 1 | 2 | Like others have said, I’d definitely try recording your thoughts to audio. Just let the thoughts flow when you’re walking or lounging and listen later. The hardest part is training your mouth to flow as quickly as your thoughts, and not let (if someone else is around) yourself get worried about being judged. | Three years ago I had a stroke resulting in the need for brain surgery. I was hard. I had reached the point where I was publishing and selling and working full time as a ghost-writer. I was writing about 10k a day. Which is a lot. A damn lot. A damn lot to keep in your head -- but it was working. Then stroke. Bye-bye big memory. I started with working on my memory techniques and getting involved with a counselor who practices cognitive therapy. This last was because I misunderstood cognitive therapy -- but it was a good if serendipitous decision. I could still type, if slower and had to pay more attention to the keys again. And I wasn't drooling out the side of my mouth, so that was two good things. I decided that writing was the big thing. But I wouldn't start with stories. I would type and write but not worry much about composing for the first three months. I would get a book that I enjoyed and would copy out of that for two hours(timed by my Alexa). Then I would play on https://relatedwords.org/ or https://www.onelook.com/spruce/ for an hour... just playing with words and phrases. Building vocabularies and stuff. Then two more hours typing. This retrained me to sit and focus for several hours on a dense task like writing. Yes, I was just copying, but my brain is a writer's mind. It follows subplots and looks forward into the story seeking where characters are going, what their arcs are, what their goals and fears were. It's been three years and I can now consistently write 5k a day. I haven't gotten faster than that. I've had to focus re-learn some grammar and some technique -- ok... a lot of technique, but it is coming back. Last year I completed the NaNoWriMo, and was embarrassingly happy about it. This year, two clients have gushed about my ghostwriting work. So, it's getting better and improving. Just keep writing. Don't stop. As you say, we're in maintenance mode. We're not getting better. That part of our life is done. What matters now is how we use this life. hope that helps. \*added Oh, look up the Major system, the Memory Palace, and a book called Moon Walking with Einstein | 0 | 9,147 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imwpqxw | in08u6w | 1,662,198,663 | 1,662,258,408 | 1 | 2 | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | Rebecca Mix had a brain injury and her debut novel is about to come out. She has mentioned it a few times on social media. | 0 | 59,745 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxh1om | in08u6w | 1,662,215,056 | 1,662,258,408 | 1 | 2 | Hey I had something similar, and having a scheduled time where I could sit down with no noises or distractions and a snack helped me immensely. | Rebecca Mix had a brain injury and her debut novel is about to come out. She has mentioned it a few times on social media. | 0 | 43,352 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | in08u6w | imy00zt | 1,662,258,408 | 1,662,222,926 | 2 | 1 | Rebecca Mix had a brain injury and her debut novel is about to come out. She has mentioned it a few times on social media. | Like others have said, I’d definitely try recording your thoughts to audio. Just let the thoughts flow when you’re walking or lounging and listen later. The hardest part is training your mouth to flow as quickly as your thoughts, and not let (if someone else is around) yourself get worried about being judged. | 1 | 35,482 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | in08u6w | imyupa2 | 1,662,258,408 | 1,662,235,594 | 2 | 1 | Rebecca Mix had a brain injury and her debut novel is about to come out. She has mentioned it a few times on social media. | Try journalling and hand writing in a note book when you get the itch to write. I know its not a similar thing but when i lost my brother (he passed to covid in dec 2020) and became suicidal depressed from this i wrote in a journal. 1 and a half years later I finished the book I started on when we would chil in his room and I published it because journaling helped me. | 1 | 22,814 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | in0htbj | imwpqxw | 1,662,263,095 | 1,662,198,663 | 2 | 1 | Writing is an activity that requires A LOT of brain power. You are activating nearly every engine in your brain and a TBI not only damages your fuel tank but it also makes many of those engines less gas efficient. What little gas you may have gets quickly sucked dry by these engines. Someone can easily get tired just composing the first line let alone connect an entire paragraph to the one before and have it make sense for the following one. What is one to do? You get external engines to do the work for you. Meaning you use every trick possible so that you reduce the thinking load on your brain. Getting more gas is difficult, but possible. Getting better engines that save on the gas is easy. Part of the struggle of writing is knowing where you are going and where you have been. Outlines are friends. I’d recommend outlining everything. Start with a simple outline of just a few points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Soon there will be a roadmap for your entire piece. You aren’t wasting gas figuring out where you want to go and taking wrong turns. Next, get character sheets in order and with very detail possible. Write down personalities, likes, dislikes, dirty secrets, humor, birthday, character traits, flaws, etc. This will help guide your dialogue and let you know that when a character needs to interact with another character you aren’t spending precious gas trying to think about what they may say. You’ll already know. For each writing session, even 3-10 minute ones, have a plan. What scene are you going to write, what needs fixing and what are you going to do to fix it? Very importantly you need to know when you’ve met your goal. Our mind waste gas worrying and thinking about everything left to do even subconsciously. Remind your mind not to waste that gas. Take meaningful breaks. Not all breaks are created equal and some give us more gas per minute than others. For me, I love video game breaks…not a good gas station. Taking a walk or painting…not a as “fun” but a much better gas station. Remove all distractions. This may include music, internet, other people, pets, food, drinks, pictures, windows, anything can be a distraction. But it’s different for everyone. The constant switching between thoughts and distractions uses a lot of gas. You want to get going on that highway of writing at 80 mph and not hit any traffic or take a pit stop until you get to your destination. These are just a few tools to use to help you compensate for the impairment of a TBI. As time goes on you’ll discover what is hard for you: memory, organization, attention, planning, flexibility, task initiation, self-regulation, inhibition, stress control, reasoning, word finding, etc. Once you’ve identified the engine that is struggling and as a result uses more gas, you can then research tools to use to help create an external engine to help you. It’s all about changing your environment for success. This is important for every writer honestly, but especially those of us who have a TBI or another executive functioning impairment. I may be speaking a bit from personal experience on this. It’s a hard road for you, but you’ve got this! | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | 1 | 64,432 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | in0htbj | imxh1om | 1,662,263,095 | 1,662,215,056 | 2 | 1 | Writing is an activity that requires A LOT of brain power. You are activating nearly every engine in your brain and a TBI not only damages your fuel tank but it also makes many of those engines less gas efficient. What little gas you may have gets quickly sucked dry by these engines. Someone can easily get tired just composing the first line let alone connect an entire paragraph to the one before and have it make sense for the following one. What is one to do? You get external engines to do the work for you. Meaning you use every trick possible so that you reduce the thinking load on your brain. Getting more gas is difficult, but possible. Getting better engines that save on the gas is easy. Part of the struggle of writing is knowing where you are going and where you have been. Outlines are friends. I’d recommend outlining everything. Start with a simple outline of just a few points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Soon there will be a roadmap for your entire piece. You aren’t wasting gas figuring out where you want to go and taking wrong turns. Next, get character sheets in order and with very detail possible. Write down personalities, likes, dislikes, dirty secrets, humor, birthday, character traits, flaws, etc. This will help guide your dialogue and let you know that when a character needs to interact with another character you aren’t spending precious gas trying to think about what they may say. You’ll already know. For each writing session, even 3-10 minute ones, have a plan. What scene are you going to write, what needs fixing and what are you going to do to fix it? Very importantly you need to know when you’ve met your goal. Our mind waste gas worrying and thinking about everything left to do even subconsciously. Remind your mind not to waste that gas. Take meaningful breaks. Not all breaks are created equal and some give us more gas per minute than others. For me, I love video game breaks…not a good gas station. Taking a walk or painting…not a as “fun” but a much better gas station. Remove all distractions. This may include music, internet, other people, pets, food, drinks, pictures, windows, anything can be a distraction. But it’s different for everyone. The constant switching between thoughts and distractions uses a lot of gas. You want to get going on that highway of writing at 80 mph and not hit any traffic or take a pit stop until you get to your destination. These are just a few tools to use to help you compensate for the impairment of a TBI. As time goes on you’ll discover what is hard for you: memory, organization, attention, planning, flexibility, task initiation, self-regulation, inhibition, stress control, reasoning, word finding, etc. Once you’ve identified the engine that is struggling and as a result uses more gas, you can then research tools to use to help create an external engine to help you. It’s all about changing your environment for success. This is important for every writer honestly, but especially those of us who have a TBI or another executive functioning impairment. I may be speaking a bit from personal experience on this. It’s a hard road for you, but you’ve got this! | Hey I had something similar, and having a scheduled time where I could sit down with no noises or distractions and a snack helped me immensely. | 1 | 48,039 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | in0htbj | imy00zt | 1,662,263,095 | 1,662,222,926 | 2 | 1 | Writing is an activity that requires A LOT of brain power. You are activating nearly every engine in your brain and a TBI not only damages your fuel tank but it also makes many of those engines less gas efficient. What little gas you may have gets quickly sucked dry by these engines. Someone can easily get tired just composing the first line let alone connect an entire paragraph to the one before and have it make sense for the following one. What is one to do? You get external engines to do the work for you. Meaning you use every trick possible so that you reduce the thinking load on your brain. Getting more gas is difficult, but possible. Getting better engines that save on the gas is easy. Part of the struggle of writing is knowing where you are going and where you have been. Outlines are friends. I’d recommend outlining everything. Start with a simple outline of just a few points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Soon there will be a roadmap for your entire piece. You aren’t wasting gas figuring out where you want to go and taking wrong turns. Next, get character sheets in order and with very detail possible. Write down personalities, likes, dislikes, dirty secrets, humor, birthday, character traits, flaws, etc. This will help guide your dialogue and let you know that when a character needs to interact with another character you aren’t spending precious gas trying to think about what they may say. You’ll already know. For each writing session, even 3-10 minute ones, have a plan. What scene are you going to write, what needs fixing and what are you going to do to fix it? Very importantly you need to know when you’ve met your goal. Our mind waste gas worrying and thinking about everything left to do even subconsciously. Remind your mind not to waste that gas. Take meaningful breaks. Not all breaks are created equal and some give us more gas per minute than others. For me, I love video game breaks…not a good gas station. Taking a walk or painting…not a as “fun” but a much better gas station. Remove all distractions. This may include music, internet, other people, pets, food, drinks, pictures, windows, anything can be a distraction. But it’s different for everyone. The constant switching between thoughts and distractions uses a lot of gas. You want to get going on that highway of writing at 80 mph and not hit any traffic or take a pit stop until you get to your destination. These are just a few tools to use to help you compensate for the impairment of a TBI. As time goes on you’ll discover what is hard for you: memory, organization, attention, planning, flexibility, task initiation, self-regulation, inhibition, stress control, reasoning, word finding, etc. Once you’ve identified the engine that is struggling and as a result uses more gas, you can then research tools to use to help create an external engine to help you. It’s all about changing your environment for success. This is important for every writer honestly, but especially those of us who have a TBI or another executive functioning impairment. I may be speaking a bit from personal experience on this. It’s a hard road for you, but you’ve got this! | Like others have said, I’d definitely try recording your thoughts to audio. Just let the thoughts flow when you’re walking or lounging and listen later. The hardest part is training your mouth to flow as quickly as your thoughts, and not let (if someone else is around) yourself get worried about being judged. | 1 | 40,169 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imyupa2 | in0htbj | 1,662,235,594 | 1,662,263,095 | 1 | 2 | Try journalling and hand writing in a note book when you get the itch to write. I know its not a similar thing but when i lost my brother (he passed to covid in dec 2020) and became suicidal depressed from this i wrote in a journal. 1 and a half years later I finished the book I started on when we would chil in his room and I published it because journaling helped me. | Writing is an activity that requires A LOT of brain power. You are activating nearly every engine in your brain and a TBI not only damages your fuel tank but it also makes many of those engines less gas efficient. What little gas you may have gets quickly sucked dry by these engines. Someone can easily get tired just composing the first line let alone connect an entire paragraph to the one before and have it make sense for the following one. What is one to do? You get external engines to do the work for you. Meaning you use every trick possible so that you reduce the thinking load on your brain. Getting more gas is difficult, but possible. Getting better engines that save on the gas is easy. Part of the struggle of writing is knowing where you are going and where you have been. Outlines are friends. I’d recommend outlining everything. Start with a simple outline of just a few points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Then do an outline for each of those points. Soon there will be a roadmap for your entire piece. You aren’t wasting gas figuring out where you want to go and taking wrong turns. Next, get character sheets in order and with very detail possible. Write down personalities, likes, dislikes, dirty secrets, humor, birthday, character traits, flaws, etc. This will help guide your dialogue and let you know that when a character needs to interact with another character you aren’t spending precious gas trying to think about what they may say. You’ll already know. For each writing session, even 3-10 minute ones, have a plan. What scene are you going to write, what needs fixing and what are you going to do to fix it? Very importantly you need to know when you’ve met your goal. Our mind waste gas worrying and thinking about everything left to do even subconsciously. Remind your mind not to waste that gas. Take meaningful breaks. Not all breaks are created equal and some give us more gas per minute than others. For me, I love video game breaks…not a good gas station. Taking a walk or painting…not a as “fun” but a much better gas station. Remove all distractions. This may include music, internet, other people, pets, food, drinks, pictures, windows, anything can be a distraction. But it’s different for everyone. The constant switching between thoughts and distractions uses a lot of gas. You want to get going on that highway of writing at 80 mph and not hit any traffic or take a pit stop until you get to your destination. These are just a few tools to use to help you compensate for the impairment of a TBI. As time goes on you’ll discover what is hard for you: memory, organization, attention, planning, flexibility, task initiation, self-regulation, inhibition, stress control, reasoning, word finding, etc. Once you’ve identified the engine that is struggling and as a result uses more gas, you can then research tools to use to help create an external engine to help you. It’s all about changing your environment for success. This is important for every writer honestly, but especially those of us who have a TBI or another executive functioning impairment. I may be speaking a bit from personal experience on this. It’s a hard road for you, but you’ve got this! | 0 | 27,501 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imwpqxw | in6z3tk | 1,662,198,663 | 1,662,391,338 | 1 | 2 | I'm sorry that I'm not really leaving anything helpful, I just want to wish you luck with returning to writing, and I hope using the tips you've picked up from other people here, you're able to fulfil your hopes in time. | Brain elasticity is a wonderful thing. Your brain will re-route as needed to get around injuries. All you need to do is exercise the parts that have to do with writing. The brain will see there is a need for writing skills/stamina and build that part of itself up over time. I've read about studies where stroke victims or people who've had parts of their brain destroyed recovered functions through brain elasticity: mental and physical therapy. But, I'm no expert. I do have ADHD and have some short term memory loss from Covid, so I understand how mentally exerting yourself can cause fatigue. I'd just take it at the pace you can go and check in with yourself from time to time to see if your stamina is improving. Don't force yourself. When you get tired, rest. Watch TV or play a story-based video game. Your brain will be able to turn itself "off" for a bit, but it will still get exposed to story, which may stimulate your creativity. Or, if you have to, just take a nap or sleep. | 0 | 192,675 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imxh1om | in6z3tk | 1,662,215,056 | 1,662,391,338 | 1 | 2 | Hey I had something similar, and having a scheduled time where I could sit down with no noises or distractions and a snack helped me immensely. | Brain elasticity is a wonderful thing. Your brain will re-route as needed to get around injuries. All you need to do is exercise the parts that have to do with writing. The brain will see there is a need for writing skills/stamina and build that part of itself up over time. I've read about studies where stroke victims or people who've had parts of their brain destroyed recovered functions through brain elasticity: mental and physical therapy. But, I'm no expert. I do have ADHD and have some short term memory loss from Covid, so I understand how mentally exerting yourself can cause fatigue. I'd just take it at the pace you can go and check in with yourself from time to time to see if your stamina is improving. Don't force yourself. When you get tired, rest. Watch TV or play a story-based video game. Your brain will be able to turn itself "off" for a bit, but it will still get exposed to story, which may stimulate your creativity. Or, if you have to, just take a nap or sleep. | 0 | 176,282 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imy00zt | in6z3tk | 1,662,222,926 | 1,662,391,338 | 1 | 2 | Like others have said, I’d definitely try recording your thoughts to audio. Just let the thoughts flow when you’re walking or lounging and listen later. The hardest part is training your mouth to flow as quickly as your thoughts, and not let (if someone else is around) yourself get worried about being judged. | Brain elasticity is a wonderful thing. Your brain will re-route as needed to get around injuries. All you need to do is exercise the parts that have to do with writing. The brain will see there is a need for writing skills/stamina and build that part of itself up over time. I've read about studies where stroke victims or people who've had parts of their brain destroyed recovered functions through brain elasticity: mental and physical therapy. But, I'm no expert. I do have ADHD and have some short term memory loss from Covid, so I understand how mentally exerting yourself can cause fatigue. I'd just take it at the pace you can go and check in with yourself from time to time to see if your stamina is improving. Don't force yourself. When you get tired, rest. Watch TV or play a story-based video game. Your brain will be able to turn itself "off" for a bit, but it will still get exposed to story, which may stimulate your creativity. Or, if you have to, just take a nap or sleep. | 0 | 168,412 | 2 | ||
x4h8d0 | writing_train | 0.93 | Returning to writing after a traumatic brain injury I have had 2 tbis in the past year and am trying to get back into writing but it is so hard. I get so exhausted mentally from writing now but I don’t want to give up. Writing could help my mental health and recovery but I get so exhausted. Are there any writing tips for chronically sick individuals to get writing done? | imyupa2 | in6z3tk | 1,662,235,594 | 1,662,391,338 | 1 | 2 | Try journalling and hand writing in a note book when you get the itch to write. I know its not a similar thing but when i lost my brother (he passed to covid in dec 2020) and became suicidal depressed from this i wrote in a journal. 1 and a half years later I finished the book I started on when we would chil in his room and I published it because journaling helped me. | Brain elasticity is a wonderful thing. Your brain will re-route as needed to get around injuries. All you need to do is exercise the parts that have to do with writing. The brain will see there is a need for writing skills/stamina and build that part of itself up over time. I've read about studies where stroke victims or people who've had parts of their brain destroyed recovered functions through brain elasticity: mental and physical therapy. But, I'm no expert. I do have ADHD and have some short term memory loss from Covid, so I understand how mentally exerting yourself can cause fatigue. I'd just take it at the pace you can go and check in with yourself from time to time to see if your stamina is improving. Don't force yourself. When you get tired, rest. Watch TV or play a story-based video game. Your brain will be able to turn itself "off" for a bit, but it will still get exposed to story, which may stimulate your creativity. Or, if you have to, just take a nap or sleep. | 0 | 155,744 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4rys6j | i4s6z2f | 1,649,985,132 | 1,649,988,969 | 8 | 47 | The problem is not your writing. The problem is your mental health, and whatever issues are biting into your health. You need to believe in your writing again, either your own ability, or as the strength of your ideas. At the risk of sounding cheesy, the only thing that works for me is being around God. Really praying, trusting, and remembering the Word. As well as remembering that I am good at this, and I do have the ability write. The trouble with artsy-farts is that while we're sensitive to good writing, we're pretty easy to disrupt, compared to normal people. Be aware of this, and be aware that it's only your nature standing between you and your goals. That, and deal with whatever you can concerning your life problems, either by fixing the problem or having a better attitude about it. Psalm 103 and all that good stuff. | As someone with chronic depression and anxiety, I feel this. When we're in between in an episode and as happy as we can be, there's this weird space where our brain actually functions worse. At least mine does. Usually. It takes a concerted effort to write in that limbo. So I work on a different hobby (yay, adhd). What else do you like to do? What did you want to try? | 0 | 3,837 | 5.875 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4s6z2f | i4rtgab | 1,649,988,969 | 1,649,982,625 | 47 | 8 | As someone with chronic depression and anxiety, I feel this. When we're in between in an episode and as happy as we can be, there's this weird space where our brain actually functions worse. At least mine does. Usually. It takes a concerted effort to write in that limbo. So I work on a different hobby (yay, adhd). What else do you like to do? What did you want to try? | Maybe switch to painting | 1 | 6,344 | 5.875 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4s7s1y | i4sn6my | 1,649,989,354 | 1,649,997,661 | 9 | 36 | It may be as simple as you feel fulfilled enough in your life where you don't feel the need to write right now. If you *want* to write, however, your creative parts may have "forgotten how to do it" as it were. Try freewriting. It doesn't matter what the words are, so long as you get them moving. Instead of trying to write or edit a specific thing, write whatever falls out. If you can't think of how to start and it pisses you off, write that. If you feel like an idiot sitting there writing about how you don't know what to write, write that. Open up a program, grab a pen/paper, or whatever you use to write, and play. :) ❤ | So years ago, I used to write comedy. My writing would be so dense with jokes. I was the toast of my comedy screenwriting class. I was getting my writing packet together, seemed a matter of time before I made it into a late night show as a writer....... Then I met my husband, and around the same time, got a proper diagnosis for my mental health issues. Both were great for my mental health. My husband was a calm calm person who accepted me as i was and I didn't have to keep making jokes around him because he just loved me for me, and I stopped having to be so defensive. I just stopped watching and writing comedy. I quit making jokes all the time. I actually got in touch with my emotions and continued to stay in touch with them. There was no room for comedy for a long long time. And it was good for me. Using comedy as a defense mechanism was preventing me from facing reality and being my true self. I just never recovered from that. I switched to writing stories that touched on very human emotions. I still do that to this date. I don't see myself writing out and out comedy anymore. Oh and I used to write very strong, angry opinion pieces when I lived with this oppressive roommate. Once I moved out, I just didn't have the same drive to write angry pieces that got all the eyeballs. I began feeling like "eh what's the big deal" about things that used to make me extremely angry. Thing is, where is the writing coming from? If it's coming from hurt and defensiveness, it's not sustainable and not worth it. It's like burning the candle at both ends. Instead, it's better to heal, give yourself a break, and write from a place of authenticity and kindness. | 0 | 8,307 | 4 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4rys6j | i4sn6my | 1,649,985,132 | 1,649,997,661 | 8 | 36 | The problem is not your writing. The problem is your mental health, and whatever issues are biting into your health. You need to believe in your writing again, either your own ability, or as the strength of your ideas. At the risk of sounding cheesy, the only thing that works for me is being around God. Really praying, trusting, and remembering the Word. As well as remembering that I am good at this, and I do have the ability write. The trouble with artsy-farts is that while we're sensitive to good writing, we're pretty easy to disrupt, compared to normal people. Be aware of this, and be aware that it's only your nature standing between you and your goals. That, and deal with whatever you can concerning your life problems, either by fixing the problem or having a better attitude about it. Psalm 103 and all that good stuff. | So years ago, I used to write comedy. My writing would be so dense with jokes. I was the toast of my comedy screenwriting class. I was getting my writing packet together, seemed a matter of time before I made it into a late night show as a writer....... Then I met my husband, and around the same time, got a proper diagnosis for my mental health issues. Both were great for my mental health. My husband was a calm calm person who accepted me as i was and I didn't have to keep making jokes around him because he just loved me for me, and I stopped having to be so defensive. I just stopped watching and writing comedy. I quit making jokes all the time. I actually got in touch with my emotions and continued to stay in touch with them. There was no room for comedy for a long long time. And it was good for me. Using comedy as a defense mechanism was preventing me from facing reality and being my true self. I just never recovered from that. I switched to writing stories that touched on very human emotions. I still do that to this date. I don't see myself writing out and out comedy anymore. Oh and I used to write very strong, angry opinion pieces when I lived with this oppressive roommate. Once I moved out, I just didn't have the same drive to write angry pieces that got all the eyeballs. I began feeling like "eh what's the big deal" about things that used to make me extremely angry. Thing is, where is the writing coming from? If it's coming from hurt and defensiveness, it's not sustainable and not worth it. It's like burning the candle at both ends. Instead, it's better to heal, give yourself a break, and write from a place of authenticity and kindness. | 0 | 12,529 | 4.5 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4rtgab | i4sn6my | 1,649,982,625 | 1,649,997,661 | 8 | 36 | Maybe switch to painting | So years ago, I used to write comedy. My writing would be so dense with jokes. I was the toast of my comedy screenwriting class. I was getting my writing packet together, seemed a matter of time before I made it into a late night show as a writer....... Then I met my husband, and around the same time, got a proper diagnosis for my mental health issues. Both were great for my mental health. My husband was a calm calm person who accepted me as i was and I didn't have to keep making jokes around him because he just loved me for me, and I stopped having to be so defensive. I just stopped watching and writing comedy. I quit making jokes all the time. I actually got in touch with my emotions and continued to stay in touch with them. There was no room for comedy for a long long time. And it was good for me. Using comedy as a defense mechanism was preventing me from facing reality and being my true self. I just never recovered from that. I switched to writing stories that touched on very human emotions. I still do that to this date. I don't see myself writing out and out comedy anymore. Oh and I used to write very strong, angry opinion pieces when I lived with this oppressive roommate. Once I moved out, I just didn't have the same drive to write angry pieces that got all the eyeballs. I began feeling like "eh what's the big deal" about things that used to make me extremely angry. Thing is, where is the writing coming from? If it's coming from hurt and defensiveness, it's not sustainable and not worth it. It's like burning the candle at both ends. Instead, it's better to heal, give yourself a break, and write from a place of authenticity and kindness. | 0 | 15,036 | 4.5 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sn6my | i4sb0nu | 1,649,997,661 | 1,649,990,943 | 36 | 1 | So years ago, I used to write comedy. My writing would be so dense with jokes. I was the toast of my comedy screenwriting class. I was getting my writing packet together, seemed a matter of time before I made it into a late night show as a writer....... Then I met my husband, and around the same time, got a proper diagnosis for my mental health issues. Both were great for my mental health. My husband was a calm calm person who accepted me as i was and I didn't have to keep making jokes around him because he just loved me for me, and I stopped having to be so defensive. I just stopped watching and writing comedy. I quit making jokes all the time. I actually got in touch with my emotions and continued to stay in touch with them. There was no room for comedy for a long long time. And it was good for me. Using comedy as a defense mechanism was preventing me from facing reality and being my true self. I just never recovered from that. I switched to writing stories that touched on very human emotions. I still do that to this date. I don't see myself writing out and out comedy anymore. Oh and I used to write very strong, angry opinion pieces when I lived with this oppressive roommate. Once I moved out, I just didn't have the same drive to write angry pieces that got all the eyeballs. I began feeling like "eh what's the big deal" about things that used to make me extremely angry. Thing is, where is the writing coming from? If it's coming from hurt and defensiveness, it's not sustainable and not worth it. It's like burning the candle at both ends. Instead, it's better to heal, give yourself a break, and write from a place of authenticity and kindness. | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | 1 | 6,718 | 36 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4skfu6 | i4sn6my | 1,649,995,973 | 1,649,997,661 | 1 | 36 | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | So years ago, I used to write comedy. My writing would be so dense with jokes. I was the toast of my comedy screenwriting class. I was getting my writing packet together, seemed a matter of time before I made it into a late night show as a writer....... Then I met my husband, and around the same time, got a proper diagnosis for my mental health issues. Both were great for my mental health. My husband was a calm calm person who accepted me as i was and I didn't have to keep making jokes around him because he just loved me for me, and I stopped having to be so defensive. I just stopped watching and writing comedy. I quit making jokes all the time. I actually got in touch with my emotions and continued to stay in touch with them. There was no room for comedy for a long long time. And it was good for me. Using comedy as a defense mechanism was preventing me from facing reality and being my true self. I just never recovered from that. I switched to writing stories that touched on very human emotions. I still do that to this date. I don't see myself writing out and out comedy anymore. Oh and I used to write very strong, angry opinion pieces when I lived with this oppressive roommate. Once I moved out, I just didn't have the same drive to write angry pieces that got all the eyeballs. I began feeling like "eh what's the big deal" about things that used to make me extremely angry. Thing is, where is the writing coming from? If it's coming from hurt and defensiveness, it's not sustainable and not worth it. It's like burning the candle at both ends. Instead, it's better to heal, give yourself a break, and write from a place of authenticity and kindness. | 0 | 1,688 | 36 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4rys6j | i4s7s1y | 1,649,985,132 | 1,649,989,354 | 8 | 9 | The problem is not your writing. The problem is your mental health, and whatever issues are biting into your health. You need to believe in your writing again, either your own ability, or as the strength of your ideas. At the risk of sounding cheesy, the only thing that works for me is being around God. Really praying, trusting, and remembering the Word. As well as remembering that I am good at this, and I do have the ability write. The trouble with artsy-farts is that while we're sensitive to good writing, we're pretty easy to disrupt, compared to normal people. Be aware of this, and be aware that it's only your nature standing between you and your goals. That, and deal with whatever you can concerning your life problems, either by fixing the problem or having a better attitude about it. Psalm 103 and all that good stuff. | It may be as simple as you feel fulfilled enough in your life where you don't feel the need to write right now. If you *want* to write, however, your creative parts may have "forgotten how to do it" as it were. Try freewriting. It doesn't matter what the words are, so long as you get them moving. Instead of trying to write or edit a specific thing, write whatever falls out. If you can't think of how to start and it pisses you off, write that. If you feel like an idiot sitting there writing about how you don't know what to write, write that. Open up a program, grab a pen/paper, or whatever you use to write, and play. :) ❤ | 0 | 4,222 | 1.125 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4rtgab | i4s7s1y | 1,649,982,625 | 1,649,989,354 | 8 | 9 | Maybe switch to painting | It may be as simple as you feel fulfilled enough in your life where you don't feel the need to write right now. If you *want* to write, however, your creative parts may have "forgotten how to do it" as it were. Try freewriting. It doesn't matter what the words are, so long as you get them moving. Instead of trying to write or edit a specific thing, write whatever falls out. If you can't think of how to start and it pisses you off, write that. If you feel like an idiot sitting there writing about how you don't know what to write, write that. Open up a program, grab a pen/paper, or whatever you use to write, and play. :) ❤ | 0 | 6,729 | 1.125 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4t86mn | i4t28j5 | 1,650,013,936 | 1,650,008,873 | 6 | 5 | Absolutely, and I'm still trying to get that spark back. Something that stops me from doing a lot of things I used to like is this feeling that if I try to enjoy something when things are good, it'll be the first to be ripped away when I get worse again. Even if it's not true, I'm scared of it being true, and that's enough to stop me, unfortunately. | Be kind to yourself - you are working a lot of hours. Who wants to work more??? When you work less hours, then maybe start proofreading and editing your past writings. But not until you are working less hours. Congrats on job etc | 1 | 5,063 | 1.2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4t28j5 | i4sxq1b | 1,650,008,873 | 1,650,005,200 | 5 | 2 | Be kind to yourself - you are working a lot of hours. Who wants to work more??? When you work less hours, then maybe start proofreading and editing your past writings. But not until you are working less hours. Congrats on job etc | Take care of your mental health man writing comes 2nd | 1 | 3,673 | 2.5 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sb0nu | i4t28j5 | 1,649,990,943 | 1,650,008,873 | 1 | 5 | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | Be kind to yourself - you are working a lot of hours. Who wants to work more??? When you work less hours, then maybe start proofreading and editing your past writings. But not until you are working less hours. Congrats on job etc | 0 | 17,930 | 5 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4skfu6 | i4t28j5 | 1,649,995,973 | 1,650,008,873 | 1 | 5 | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | Be kind to yourself - you are working a lot of hours. Who wants to work more??? When you work less hours, then maybe start proofreading and editing your past writings. But not until you are working less hours. Congrats on job etc | 0 | 12,900 | 5 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4t86mn | i4sxq1b | 1,650,013,936 | 1,650,005,200 | 6 | 2 | Absolutely, and I'm still trying to get that spark back. Something that stops me from doing a lot of things I used to like is this feeling that if I try to enjoy something when things are good, it'll be the first to be ripped away when I get worse again. Even if it's not true, I'm scared of it being true, and that's enough to stop me, unfortunately. | Take care of your mental health man writing comes 2nd | 1 | 8,736 | 3 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sb0nu | i4t86mn | 1,649,990,943 | 1,650,013,936 | 1 | 6 | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | Absolutely, and I'm still trying to get that spark back. Something that stops me from doing a lot of things I used to like is this feeling that if I try to enjoy something when things are good, it'll be the first to be ripped away when I get worse again. Even if it's not true, I'm scared of it being true, and that's enough to stop me, unfortunately. | 0 | 22,993 | 6 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4t86mn | i4skfu6 | 1,650,013,936 | 1,649,995,973 | 6 | 1 | Absolutely, and I'm still trying to get that spark back. Something that stops me from doing a lot of things I used to like is this feeling that if I try to enjoy something when things are good, it'll be the first to be ripped away when I get worse again. Even if it's not true, I'm scared of it being true, and that's enough to stop me, unfortunately. | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | 1 | 17,963 | 6 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4teytb | i4sxq1b | 1,650,019,537 | 1,650,005,200 | 4 | 2 | This really hits home with me. The last five years of my life has been mass chaos with sickness, death, overwhelming work stress, and trauma--and I wrote literally millions of words during that time. Late last year, I made big changes for my own survival and I'm in a really healthy place now. And you guessed it, the words have stopped. I detest the tortured artist trope and have no desire to go back to the pain I've experienced for so long just so I can write again. The way I'm trying to view this is like recovering from a limb bring crushed. It takes rest and time to move again. When I do start writing again, it may not be the same as it was before but it will reflect who I am now and who I want to be, not who I used to be. That likely means I need to scrap my old ideas and start with something fresh. I'm trying to give myself space for that (and permission to let go). It's really difficult. Be kind to yourself. It sounds so cliche but a new universe is opening for you. Explore that when you're ready. | Take care of your mental health man writing comes 2nd | 1 | 14,337 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sb0nu | i4teytb | 1,649,990,943 | 1,650,019,537 | 1 | 4 | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | This really hits home with me. The last five years of my life has been mass chaos with sickness, death, overwhelming work stress, and trauma--and I wrote literally millions of words during that time. Late last year, I made big changes for my own survival and I'm in a really healthy place now. And you guessed it, the words have stopped. I detest the tortured artist trope and have no desire to go back to the pain I've experienced for so long just so I can write again. The way I'm trying to view this is like recovering from a limb bring crushed. It takes rest and time to move again. When I do start writing again, it may not be the same as it was before but it will reflect who I am now and who I want to be, not who I used to be. That likely means I need to scrap my old ideas and start with something fresh. I'm trying to give myself space for that (and permission to let go). It's really difficult. Be kind to yourself. It sounds so cliche but a new universe is opening for you. Explore that when you're ready. | 0 | 28,594 | 4 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4teytb | i4skfu6 | 1,650,019,537 | 1,649,995,973 | 4 | 1 | This really hits home with me. The last five years of my life has been mass chaos with sickness, death, overwhelming work stress, and trauma--and I wrote literally millions of words during that time. Late last year, I made big changes for my own survival and I'm in a really healthy place now. And you guessed it, the words have stopped. I detest the tortured artist trope and have no desire to go back to the pain I've experienced for so long just so I can write again. The way I'm trying to view this is like recovering from a limb bring crushed. It takes rest and time to move again. When I do start writing again, it may not be the same as it was before but it will reflect who I am now and who I want to be, not who I used to be. That likely means I need to scrap my old ideas and start with something fresh. I'm trying to give myself space for that (and permission to let go). It's really difficult. Be kind to yourself. It sounds so cliche but a new universe is opening for you. Explore that when you're ready. | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | 1 | 23,564 | 4 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sxq1b | i4tqk1m | 1,650,005,200 | 1,650,026,858 | 2 | 4 | Take care of your mental health man writing comes 2nd | So much advice and no one mentioned the medication???? I’ve been on anti anxiety and anti depression meds and they will crush your motivation to do anything at all. I’m sure it doesn’t happen to everyone, but it happened to me (and likely OP) | 0 | 21,658 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4tqk1m | i4thryd | 1,650,026,858 | 1,650,021,558 | 4 | 2 | So much advice and no one mentioned the medication???? I’ve been on anti anxiety and anti depression meds and they will crush your motivation to do anything at all. I’m sure it doesn’t happen to everyone, but it happened to me (and likely OP) | Faulkner wrote Sound and Fury while working 12 hours a day. | 1 | 5,300 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sb0nu | i4tqk1m | 1,649,990,943 | 1,650,026,858 | 1 | 4 | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | So much advice and no one mentioned the medication???? I’ve been on anti anxiety and anti depression meds and they will crush your motivation to do anything at all. I’m sure it doesn’t happen to everyone, but it happened to me (and likely OP) | 0 | 35,915 | 4 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4skfu6 | i4tqk1m | 1,649,995,973 | 1,650,026,858 | 1 | 4 | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | So much advice and no one mentioned the medication???? I’ve been on anti anxiety and anti depression meds and they will crush your motivation to do anything at all. I’m sure it doesn’t happen to everyone, but it happened to me (and likely OP) | 0 | 30,885 | 4 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sxq1b | i4sb0nu | 1,650,005,200 | 1,649,990,943 | 2 | 1 | Take care of your mental health man writing comes 2nd | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | 1 | 14,257 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4sxq1b | i4skfu6 | 1,650,005,200 | 1,649,995,973 | 2 | 1 | Take care of your mental health man writing comes 2nd | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | 1 | 9,227 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4thryd | i4sb0nu | 1,650,021,558 | 1,649,990,943 | 2 | 1 | Faulkner wrote Sound and Fury while working 12 hours a day. | Focus on your health first. But you can try to incorpate it into writing. Like you can keep a journal for the day. Talk about how you felt, what you did, etc as if it were a first person perspective story. | 1 | 30,615 | 2 | ||
u3vhyz | writing_train | 0.93 | Been working on my anxiety and depression. Things are getting better... But I lost the drive to write. Last year was a very difficult year for me (From addressing my mental health head on, being unemployed and eventually working in two toxic jobs, and being cheated on by someone I truly loved) but this year is starting to look different. I'm taking medicine, taking life by the horns, and trying to experience as much of life as I can, while working in an industry I love (Even though I work 60+ hours a week...) That said, I haven't written in over a year. There's a part of me that doesn't mind it, even though I have a lot of ideas written out. The other part overthinks the shit out of that fact and the fact that I'm not working on anything. I busted out about six screenplays, one novel, and wrote out close to 100 ideas last year. The drafts are obviously in a rough stage but they are completed. This year... Two chapters. I want to make writing a career but I'm not as motivated as I used to be. Anyone go through something similar? | i4thryd | i4skfu6 | 1,650,021,558 | 1,649,995,973 | 2 | 1 | Faulkner wrote Sound and Fury while working 12 hours a day. | As you can see it, we all go through it. I'm still working on mine after five years of not being able to and five years of just getting it right. I have a bin of writings but nothing worth sharing. I tried posting something on Reddit - they were harsh. I started using a writing app where we can post other people could like or comment. I just downloaded last week and do far so good, but I still need to give it some time. | 1 | 25,585 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmdr0mp | hme9ncf | 1,638,090,121 | 1,638,104,465 | 4 | 8 | Do them badly and make them pretty later. I’ve written lots of things that come with bold notes to just redo it because the phrasing is lazy or ugly. But once it’s down the “art” part is much easier than the building part. | I enjoyed seeing this post because I’m in a similar spot. I’ve got four months of quasi isolation coming up. And I will be, so help me God, churning out a big chunk of my novel. I liked several of these ideas and I’ll add some. As many have said, allow yourself to write badly. Get the words down. But the way I am starting is outlining. I had a 20 page outline of 60 chapters, now I have a 50 page outline. Soon that may be 75, or maybe more. It’s the chassis for the prose, so now I just have to start laying on the metal. I’ll tighten up and polish it later. If I can create a foundation of daily discipline and a healthy routine (food, exercise, reading, research), I believe this will lead to a novel. I look forward to seeing what will work for you! | 0 | 14,344 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmdpwxw | hme9ncf | 1,638,089,243 | 1,638,104,465 | 3 | 8 | Write a random sentence and then go from there? It doesn't need to stay there, write it anyway? Also, go at your own pace. No need to hurry with words. I feel like you should let go of structure and just write for a bit and then try to think of where the writing is going. Also, you could pay a lot of attention on sentence variation and actively think about it while writing? | I enjoyed seeing this post because I’m in a similar spot. I’ve got four months of quasi isolation coming up. And I will be, so help me God, churning out a big chunk of my novel. I liked several of these ideas and I’ll add some. As many have said, allow yourself to write badly. Get the words down. But the way I am starting is outlining. I had a 20 page outline of 60 chapters, now I have a 50 page outline. Soon that may be 75, or maybe more. It’s the chassis for the prose, so now I just have to start laying on the metal. I’ll tighten up and polish it later. If I can create a foundation of daily discipline and a healthy routine (food, exercise, reading, research), I believe this will lead to a novel. I look forward to seeing what will work for you! | 0 | 15,222 | 2.666667 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hme9ncf | hmdq6x5 | 1,638,104,465 | 1,638,089,471 | 8 | 2 | I enjoyed seeing this post because I’m in a similar spot. I’ve got four months of quasi isolation coming up. And I will be, so help me God, churning out a big chunk of my novel. I liked several of these ideas and I’ll add some. As many have said, allow yourself to write badly. Get the words down. But the way I am starting is outlining. I had a 20 page outline of 60 chapters, now I have a 50 page outline. Soon that may be 75, or maybe more. It’s the chassis for the prose, so now I just have to start laying on the metal. I’ll tighten up and polish it later. If I can create a foundation of daily discipline and a healthy routine (food, exercise, reading, research), I believe this will lead to a novel. I look forward to seeing what will work for you! | Sometimes I cheat and look up synonyms for my repetitive words on Google. It's like my own personal words shopping mall. | 1 | 14,994 | 4 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hme9ncf | hme0fno | 1,638,104,465 | 1,638,097,684 | 8 | 2 | I enjoyed seeing this post because I’m in a similar spot. I’ve got four months of quasi isolation coming up. And I will be, so help me God, churning out a big chunk of my novel. I liked several of these ideas and I’ll add some. As many have said, allow yourself to write badly. Get the words down. But the way I am starting is outlining. I had a 20 page outline of 60 chapters, now I have a 50 page outline. Soon that may be 75, or maybe more. It’s the chassis for the prose, so now I just have to start laying on the metal. I’ll tighten up and polish it later. If I can create a foundation of daily discipline and a healthy routine (food, exercise, reading, research), I believe this will lead to a novel. I look forward to seeing what will work for you! | You mention your webnovel and that you've been away from it in a while. Have you gone back and reread the last chapter to see where you left the story? Perhaps what you need is a jolt to where the plot is headed. Also, if you are worrying about it being perfect, know that the first draft will need editing, even with a relatively good outing. So just worry about getting the words out first, then worry about everything else. | 1 | 6,781 | 4 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmdpwxw | hmdr0mp | 1,638,089,243 | 1,638,090,121 | 3 | 4 | Write a random sentence and then go from there? It doesn't need to stay there, write it anyway? Also, go at your own pace. No need to hurry with words. I feel like you should let go of structure and just write for a bit and then try to think of where the writing is going. Also, you could pay a lot of attention on sentence variation and actively think about it while writing? | Do them badly and make them pretty later. I’ve written lots of things that come with bold notes to just redo it because the phrasing is lazy or ugly. But once it’s down the “art” part is much easier than the building part. | 0 | 878 | 1.333333 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmdr0mp | hmdq6x5 | 1,638,090,121 | 1,638,089,471 | 4 | 2 | Do them badly and make them pretty later. I’ve written lots of things that come with bold notes to just redo it because the phrasing is lazy or ugly. But once it’s down the “art” part is much easier than the building part. | Sometimes I cheat and look up synonyms for my repetitive words on Google. It's like my own personal words shopping mall. | 1 | 650 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmf90gd | hmev53e | 1,638,121,356 | 1,638,115,522 | 2 | 1 | You can try to read something before. Watching a movie could work too; maybe something that will get your thoughts flowing. | Stop posting on Reddit. Get out of your own way. Never invoke the word ‘writer’ in conversations. Hide your light under a bushel. If you listen to music then no lyrics. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself a break. Writing is a self-developmental process: it grows you while you grow it. Never show your scribbles to anyone. If it takes three years to complete something at least it didn’t take ten. Then ask yourself—is this really for me? If you keep journals, write letters, poems, etc., and have a vague feeling of the depths of sadness you would experience if you could never write again—then you’re a writer and who cares if you publish? But for me, publishing is the fulfillment of a ‘social contract’ with readers. Writing can be but shouldn’t be masturbation. Oh and first drafts should be FUN. | 1 | 5,834 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmev53e | hmgijlp | 1,638,115,522 | 1,638,139,618 | 1 | 2 | Stop posting on Reddit. Get out of your own way. Never invoke the word ‘writer’ in conversations. Hide your light under a bushel. If you listen to music then no lyrics. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself a break. Writing is a self-developmental process: it grows you while you grow it. Never show your scribbles to anyone. If it takes three years to complete something at least it didn’t take ten. Then ask yourself—is this really for me? If you keep journals, write letters, poems, etc., and have a vague feeling of the depths of sadness you would experience if you could never write again—then you’re a writer and who cares if you publish? But for me, publishing is the fulfillment of a ‘social contract’ with readers. Writing can be but shouldn’t be masturbation. Oh and first drafts should be FUN. | In his book 'On Writing's Stephen King says 2nd draft is the first draft minus 10%. Kill your darlings!!! | 0 | 24,096 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmgijlp | hmg69e9 | 1,638,139,618 | 1,638,134,580 | 2 | 1 | In his book 'On Writing's Stephen King says 2nd draft is the first draft minus 10%. Kill your darlings!!! | Write total shit for draft one, fix it on draft two...and further drafts. Just get the story out. | 1 | 5,038 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmj0y5d | hmev53e | 1,638,192,142 | 1,638,115,522 | 2 | 1 | Reread older stories you wrote, write random sentences, and if needed day outloud the thing you're imagining. These are my tricks but admittedly usually a lack of words signals a small break from work for me vs restarting | Stop posting on Reddit. Get out of your own way. Never invoke the word ‘writer’ in conversations. Hide your light under a bushel. If you listen to music then no lyrics. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself a break. Writing is a self-developmental process: it grows you while you grow it. Never show your scribbles to anyone. If it takes three years to complete something at least it didn’t take ten. Then ask yourself—is this really for me? If you keep journals, write letters, poems, etc., and have a vague feeling of the depths of sadness you would experience if you could never write again—then you’re a writer and who cares if you publish? But for me, publishing is the fulfillment of a ‘social contract’ with readers. Writing can be but shouldn’t be masturbation. Oh and first drafts should be FUN. | 1 | 76,620 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmj0y5d | hmg69e9 | 1,638,192,142 | 1,638,134,580 | 2 | 1 | Reread older stories you wrote, write random sentences, and if needed day outloud the thing you're imagining. These are my tricks but admittedly usually a lack of words signals a small break from work for me vs restarting | Write total shit for draft one, fix it on draft two...and further drafts. Just get the story out. | 1 | 57,562 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmkb5qy | hmev53e | 1,638,212,387 | 1,638,115,522 | 2 | 1 | I gotcha! Lol | Stop posting on Reddit. Get out of your own way. Never invoke the word ‘writer’ in conversations. Hide your light under a bushel. If you listen to music then no lyrics. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself a break. Writing is a self-developmental process: it grows you while you grow it. Never show your scribbles to anyone. If it takes three years to complete something at least it didn’t take ten. Then ask yourself—is this really for me? If you keep journals, write letters, poems, etc., and have a vague feeling of the depths of sadness you would experience if you could never write again—then you’re a writer and who cares if you publish? But for me, publishing is the fulfillment of a ‘social contract’ with readers. Writing can be but shouldn’t be masturbation. Oh and first drafts should be FUN. | 1 | 96,865 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmkb5qy | hmg69e9 | 1,638,212,387 | 1,638,134,580 | 2 | 1 | I gotcha! Lol | Write total shit for draft one, fix it on draft two...and further drafts. Just get the story out. | 1 | 77,807 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hn3ipvj | hmev53e | 1,638,556,015 | 1,638,115,522 | 2 | 1 | My recent novel has a character in it, an elderly street-lady. I like the character but I also realized last night that she may be a distraction (you figure this out during editing). So now, as usual with my stories, I will kill her off, horribly. BUT even killing her might not be enough. I want to see the revision with her dead and see if it works. What I do know is that if she just doesn't work, I will have to just get rid of 7-10k words. Kill your darlings!! All part of the process. | Stop posting on Reddit. Get out of your own way. Never invoke the word ‘writer’ in conversations. Hide your light under a bushel. If you listen to music then no lyrics. Be kind to yourself. Give yourself a break. Writing is a self-developmental process: it grows you while you grow it. Never show your scribbles to anyone. If it takes three years to complete something at least it didn’t take ten. Then ask yourself—is this really for me? If you keep journals, write letters, poems, etc., and have a vague feeling of the depths of sadness you would experience if you could never write again—then you’re a writer and who cares if you publish? But for me, publishing is the fulfillment of a ‘social contract’ with readers. Writing can be but shouldn’t be masturbation. Oh and first drafts should be FUN. | 1 | 440,493 | 2 | ||
r3z6j6 | writing_train | 0.96 | Returning to writing after many months! Any advice for someone struggling to get sentences flowing? New here! I'm finally getting back into writing my webnovel after purchasing a laptop and I'm excited to be writing on a keyboard and not on my phone's small screen. The issue is, I can't get the words to just come out of my head. I haven't written in a while so it's hard getting back into the groove. I'm struggling with writing sentences and after I've written a paragraph I just sit there like: "how do I structure let alone start the next sentence?" Every article just does the usual "put on music, get in the mood", I'm in the mood, just nothing will come out of my stupid noggin! I want to remember how to write! I used to get out a decent amount of words when on a roll and hopefully the more I write I'll get back to this, but for now, it's a struggle and it's frustrating me. At the moment, most sentences are like: " [name] held his injured hand as he got to his feet..." blah, blah, which would be fine, but every sentence is the same and it's all feeling...flat. Does anyone have any resources or tips they'd recommend to help me get back into the writing flow? | hmg69e9 | hn3ipvj | 1,638,134,580 | 1,638,556,015 | 1 | 2 | Write total shit for draft one, fix it on draft two...and further drafts. Just get the story out. | My recent novel has a character in it, an elderly street-lady. I like the character but I also realized last night that she may be a distraction (you figure this out during editing). So now, as usual with my stories, I will kill her off, horribly. BUT even killing her might not be enough. I want to see the revision with her dead and see if it works. What I do know is that if she just doesn't work, I will have to just get rid of 7-10k words. Kill your darlings!! All part of the process. | 0 | 421,435 | 2 | ||
zrz0yu | writing_train | 0.74 | Does anyone remember the writing site Figment? I’m not sure this is the right place to ask this, but I used this site many many years ago when I was a teen. I wanted to try to recover some of my stories from there and I know the website shut down, but does anyone know if there’s an archive or some other way to access it? My dumb teen brain wrote things directly into Figment and didn’t save them as documents. But I’d love to find my work and reread it to make fun of myself. | j15h8gz | j15cyry | 1,671,654,504 | 1,671,652,819 | 5 | 3 | It must have been a figment of your imagination | Have you tried searching the wayback machine? | 1 | 1,685 | 1.666667 | ||
zrz0yu | writing_train | 0.74 | Does anyone remember the writing site Figment? I’m not sure this is the right place to ask this, but I used this site many many years ago when I was a teen. I wanted to try to recover some of my stories from there and I know the website shut down, but does anyone know if there’s an archive or some other way to access it? My dumb teen brain wrote things directly into Figment and didn’t save them as documents. But I’d love to find my work and reread it to make fun of myself. | j15d2sx | j15h8gz | 1,671,652,862 | 1,671,654,504 | 2 | 5 | You can check if the pages are cached anywhere: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/google-cache | It must have been a figment of your imagination | 0 | 1,642 | 2.5 |
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