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what do you do when you simply don't have any idea where to start with a story? throughout the day i'll have a number of ideas for specific situations, settings, tones, atmospheres etc. i want to write in, but i'm hopeless when it comes to plot and character. and i realize plot matters a little less when you have a realized character to drive the story forward but i struggle with this too.
so basically i'm wondering if there are any exercises you guys use for forcing yourself to write something even if it's not going to come to anything, like prompts or archetypes you'll start from. i don't want to sit around waiting for inspiration to strike, and i think the best way to find it is simply to exercise my writing, but i just don't know where to start and i always trail off super early into every piece of fiction i attempt.
do you any of you experience a similar struggle/know tips to move forward?
sorry for the total mess of a post
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Sometimes I try grinding some pages without a direction and see if it gets me in the mood to actually write. A couple of times I went outside with bad intentions, it was more inspiring.
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Stop typing and write. If (you) write already write with your non-writing hand. This is slow and awkward and ideas will seem to dam up. When you feel the pressure of this switch back to your writing hand or keyboard. Weird. But it sometimes works for me. Feels like I get another part of my brain involved that usually isn't at all.
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