: Re: Bogged Down with Legends of Wind It's not that I have a lot of writer's block, it's the mash-up of stories I'm compiling that all have to fit together in some way. I have outlines and I

@Carla500

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You are trying to do too much at once. You're flailing around in a cloud. The easiest way for me to get out of the cloud is to start asking and answering hard, definable questions, and completing hard, definable tasks.

Create and define a character.
Decide what you want the character to do. Give the character a reason
or reasons for doing it.
Start the character at some distance from the goal. "Distance" can be
physical, emotional, spiritual, mental, any combination of the above.
Give the character some friends. (Or don't.)
Give the character some enemies. (This can include the character
him/herself.)
Establish some obstacles the character has to surmount to reach the
goal.
"Things go wrong." Lather, rinse, repeat.
Sketch out an outline of how the character gets around the obstacles.
Include how the friends help and the enemies hinder.

Everything else is details.

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