Out Of Gas

[mythingperson]

The blank page looms before you, the prompt taunts you, and you’re feeling completely and totally out of ideas. You want to write a story, but where do you start? How do you start? When all the ideas have been had and there’s nothing new under the sun, how do you create anything at all, much less something awesome

Comments

[cheshire23]

I like this process. My worst problem seems to be that I get bogged down in fact-checking my fiction, so there is all this research into the invisible backstory in my head and one thing going wrong with that can get the whole thing tumbling down.

Not sure how to fix that...

[agirlnamedluna]

I have a somewhat similar approach, and usually a few hours before the deadline go "oh crap, well let's stick with whatever it is".