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Title: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on October 25, 2004, 01:58:38 AM

Does anyone else suffer from this syndrome?  I can't START at the beginning of a story; I have to start in the middle and it just causes all kinds of trouble later on.  But the only way for me to get over writer's block is to skip to the middle or end of a story.

I've often thought I need to hook up with someone who is excellent at beginning stories, but blanks out in the middle, and co-write with them...

Advice?

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: JP Dogberry on October 25, 2004, 03:40:53 AM

See, I'm the opposite. I've started so many stories that have never got past about a page that I've become really great at beginnings.

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on October 25, 2004, 03:53:23 AM

Ok, see?  That's exactly what I'm talking about.  You should pass on some of your beginnings that you don't mind losing and see if I can do anything with them.

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on October 25, 2004, 09:17:07 AM

uhm.. why can't you start in the middle and then flash back to the beginning?

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: JP Dogberry on October 25, 2004, 10:19:13 AM

Heh...give me an e-mail address and I'll send you any I find. Although, most I gave up on because they were bad ideas in the first place.

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: Archon on October 25, 2004, 08:47:13 PM

I am sometimes the same as JP, sometimes like fuzzy. I know I am weird, leave me alone. What do you like to write fuzzy?

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: Fellfrosch on October 25, 2004, 11:59:59 PM

I think I'm pretty good at beginnings and middles, but I suck at endings. Mostly because endings require progress and triumph (of good or of evil), and I tend to write about characters who are mired in inadequacy.

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on October 26, 2004, 12:08:08 AM

Oh great, another Donaldson do we have?


:P Hahah, I kid. You're a good guy Fell. !

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on October 26, 2004, 02:02:57 PM

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I know I am weird, leave me alone. What do you like to write fuzzy?

By nature?  Melodramatic fantasy.

Title: Re: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on October 29, 2004, 12:35:05 PM

Hey me too!!

Actually, I aspire to be another Patricia C. Wrede.