- Invitation Status
- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- One post per day
- 1-3 posts per week
- One post per week
- Writing Levels
- Intermediate
- Adept
- Advanced
- Preferred Character Gender
- No Preferences
- Genres
- Urban Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Quest, Sci-Fi, Time Travel and World Hopping, Steampunk, Action/Adventure, Modern Drama, Mystery, Slice of Life, Romance, and many more.
Often for me, killing writers block is only as difficult as figuring out what's blocking me. Most times I find it's something more concrete than a bad mood or a lack of interest.
In this thread, please post the things that have caused writers block for you, and suggest ways to deal with them!
My big ones seem to be;
Unexplored Character:
Often I find I don't know what to write because I don't know my character well enough. If you know the depths of your character's background, capabilities, personality, and what I call their 'extended characters' (ie: the family, friends, boss, enemy, etc), the posts seem to write themselves most of the time.
To better know my character, I find completing challenges in the Creative Challenges section, and here in the Institute, helpful. Diana's Ultimate Character Sheet is also great.
Bland World:
Don't discount the Worldbuilding! If my setting is boring, or there's nothing especially fun or exciting to play with, I find it hard to write; it's like the characters are standing in a big void of genericness! Clicking around the Worldbuilding Guild helps with that.
Unclear Resolution:
This is when the conflict of the story becomes unresolvable. It's tough to fix; you may have to do some back-editing or handsome key element have been a trick the entire time
Depressing experience
This is when the Roleplay is so grim that just writing in it is depressing. The cure is to introduce some silliness
In this thread, please post the things that have caused writers block for you, and suggest ways to deal with them!
My big ones seem to be;
Unexplored Character:
Often I find I don't know what to write because I don't know my character well enough. If you know the depths of your character's background, capabilities, personality, and what I call their 'extended characters' (ie: the family, friends, boss, enemy, etc), the posts seem to write themselves most of the time.
To better know my character, I find completing challenges in the Creative Challenges section, and here in the Institute, helpful. Diana's Ultimate Character Sheet is also great.
Bland World:
Don't discount the Worldbuilding! If my setting is boring, or there's nothing especially fun or exciting to play with, I find it hard to write; it's like the characters are standing in a big void of genericness! Clicking around the Worldbuilding Guild helps with that.
Unclear Resolution:
This is when the conflict of the story becomes unresolvable. It's tough to fix; you may have to do some back-editing or handsome key element have been a trick the entire time
Depressing experience
This is when the Roleplay is so grim that just writing in it is depressing. The cure is to introduce some silliness