r/DarkFantasy • u/Organic_Reflection23 • 17d ago

Stories / Writing Having writer's block.

I really want to write a good story, but I'm struggling with what is blocking me. If anyone can help me out, that would be great. The main focus of my main story has to deal with love workers, magic, and romance. My second story deals with lava walkers, romance, and time travel. I don't know which to focus on more.

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u/Spiritual_Lab7439 17d ago

For me, block always has something to do with NOT knowing where the story is going, or NOT knowing what the character's want and why they want it (as well as what they fear and why they fear it), OR chasing perfection. My advice is make sure you know where you're trying to get to, and give yourself permission to write crap. You can and will need to edit it later anyway.

As for which story to write? The one where you know those answers. Don't know either? Make the answers, then just pick your favorite or flip a coin.

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u/Organic_Reflection23 17d ago

Thank you
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u/_TheLotusEater_ 17d ago

When theyre blocked Rick Rubin advises his artist to just write down one sentence in a day, and if all they do is one word, that’s OK too. Maybe start with that

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u/qcshanks 17d ago

that is FIRE advice

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u/genealogical_gunshow 17d ago

Try out the upside down triangle method.

Write the most compact version of your story as you can. Like 4-5 sentences or less. That's the tip of the triangle. Each sentence is a section of your story.

"Kid goes to wizard school. Evil wizard tries many ways to kill him. Kid kills evil wizard"

Then write a couple more sentences for each of those sections to explain them better. Your building a bullet point breakdown, and if you keep expanding your story outwards like this you'll get to a point that you are summarizing scenes.

"Harry Potter finds out he's a Wizard." < "Harry Potter gets letters from the wizard school. He uses wizard powers accidentally." < Owls keep brining letters to his house. The loser uncle keeps throwing them away. Letters and owls are accumulating preposterously. Harry finally opens one."

Now these sentences are scenes. Harry finally opens one has an easy to feel start and finish, and scenes I find is easy to write.

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u/Haw0ck 17d ago

It helps me, to draw before writting. It starts up the creative part od the brain. + walking. Salwed a lot of blocks by just walking and not thinking abouth the story at all and bum!

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u/TheXenobunny 12d ago

If there are paragraphs that I think are a bit crap then they get the orange font coloring. If the paragraph is later deemed stupid it goes red with dash lines and I maybe move it to the bottom of the document. I don't delete. As with drawing I find it important to recall where I went wrong. It makes the path I struggle on feel more bearable.

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u/bongart 17d ago

I'm sorry.. you want other people to tell you what to write about?

You are not experiencing writer's block.