: Re: Tactics to get past getting stuck? I love writing, but I can never truly get past the first few pages of a story that I am attempting. Even if it is well planned out. I always get stuck

I've overcome this problem by writing chapters out of sequence. When writing my first novel, I wrote chapters 1, 2, 3 quickly, because I knew how the story began. Then I was "blocked" by a relatively boring middle section. I skipped Chapters 4 and 5, and went to a "favorite" scene in Chapter 6 (Christmas at Rockefeller Center). Then I wrote the end chapters "backward," that is 12, 11, 10 and 9, because I liked how the story ended. Finally, I could tackle Chapters 4 and 5, then 7 and 8, which I had skipped over earlier, to make a "complete" novel.

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: Re: Tactics to get past getting stuck? I love writing, but I can never truly get past the first few pages of a story that I am attempting. Even if it is well planned out. I always get stuck

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: An "idea" is not copyrightable, only its expression is. "Bad faith" is an idea that is as old as time, that Satre "popularized," but did not invent. What is attributable to him is an exposition

: It's okay to publish a book at any age. If it is a good book (or at least "good enough.) Worse come to worse, if you can't publish at age 13, you can try again at age 18 or age 23.

: How and where to publish my first poem / story? I have written poems and short stories and want to publish somewhere. but I am not aware about how to publish it so that it can reach to

: How much character development is necessary beyond what the story line provides? Critics of my screen play tell me that I have done a good job of developing the story, less so in developing

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