I love to write......?

Question

I love to write stories. But after like a few pages I get bored with my stories so jut put them away and eventually start a new one. I really want to write a story and actually finish it! Any other writers out there who can give me tips on how to stick with your stories even through writers block?

Answer 1

I also love to write, and I understand your problem. It's happened to me on several occasions. I would suggest maybe writing a brief outline. The outline can start out with an intro, and then you could write down three or four problems that the character(s) run into. After each problem, maybe write down some ideas of how they can solve those problems. End the outline with a conclusion to the end of the story. This is a technique taught to me in my creative writing class, and while it might not help everyone, you could give it a shot.

What helps me sometimes is writing the story out of order. I will write out random scenes, and when I have two or three of these scenes written, I'll start writing the in-between parts that connect them.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Think about the television shows that have to churn out a story once per week. How do they do it? 1) They have teams of screenwriters. 2) The create an outline. 3) They know their ending. 4) They have a deadline.

In addition to these they are trained in storytelling by attending courses or seminars or by learning on their own. Storytelling is no longer taught in schools since the 1960s (creative writing has nothing to do with storytelling) except for film schools.

You might want to explore some of the texts they use to teach storytelling. In order of importance:

1) Story by Robert McKee
2) Screenplay by Syd Field
3) The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler

I don't know if Vogler does it but McKee and Field both do seminars where major storytellers attend. Pixar sends all their writers to McKee's lectures.

Most writers don't have this luxury to explicitly learn the methods of storytelling and instead learn the methods of storytelling subconsciously by reading and mimicking their favorite writers. In Stephen King's book for writers, On Writing, he said the best method to learn how to tell a story is to read a lot.

There isn't one thing that will get you over the problem that you're having. The world is full of drawers of 30-page unfinished novels. Why 30 pages? That's usually the point where the writer is getting into the middle. The euphoria of creating the story is over and the writer failed to plan for the middle by not researching and not knowing the ending.

In essence, all stories are a quest. They begin with an inciting incident that completely turns the world upside down and sets the characters off on correcting it, each with his or her own desires and goals. As they go after the goal it progressively becomes more difficult to reach as gaps open between expectation and result and they must make choices. It is in these choices that they reveal their character and tell us, "life is like that!". Then at the last act's climax when the story can possibly not go any further they either achieve or not achieve their goal and settle the story.

There are so many aspects to it that you might want to explore. Check out the tutorials on http://www.storyentertainment.com and other sites and message boards (including here if you have specific questions) to help you. You'll then know how to fill in your middle.

Answer 3

I also get bored sometimes when writing a story. But I have been writing my novel for almost two years now; and I have definitely learnt something about perseverence! When I get bored or feel like I'm drained of ideas for a new scene, I take a break (sometimes weeks) and write other pieces (not long stories; just little observations and such) and then usually I eventually feel ready to return to the story at hand. Each time you think of quiting and starting a new story, think to yourself - Why am I writing this story in the first place? What important do I have to to say through this story? If you can come up with a sold answer, you know to stick it out (through being bored) and finish that novel! If you can't answer the question or feel no passion or emotion in answering it, then you are wasting your time on the story; move on and start fresh with a new one.

Answer 4

I don't think you really have writer's block. You're either starting your writing too soon or your expectations of quality are too high.

Before you start writing, you may want to think your story through. How does it begin and end? What are the turning points in your characters' stories? Do you know your characters deeply? If you don't know the answers to any of these questions, it may help you a lot to figure them out before you actually start writing your story.

As well, you may be setting your expectations too high. If you're reading your writing as you write, you may be thinking "this is no good." That's normal. You need to just keep writing and following the plan that you devised.

Answer 5

That happened to me a lot too. I would get great ideas, know exactly where I wanted the story to go, but I would get bored with it. I suppose the greatest tip is to write something that you really want others to read. Its pretty easy for writers to make an awesome paragraph or couple pages, but unless we have the motivation to let our works be read, we'll only ever write just a couple pages. Chose something that really interests you and just keep writing an hour or two per day, don't over-do it, and just persist on that for a couple months then suddenly you will have 200-300 pages and you will begin to taste how near you are to finishing an entire book, then your motivation will skyrocket.

Answer 6

I also get bored of my writing. The only advice I have to offer is that you never throw away any of your old stories. Maybe you can put pieces of them in another story, or come back to it a some point. Good luck.

Answer 7

Yeah that happens to me all the time. Sometimes I put the stories away for a long time in a drawer, and then I randomly grab one and read the last sentence thats on it.. And then I just write. Sometimes they come out really funny :)

Answer 8

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