Barging in

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Greetings! I'm new here, and I have trouble writing. I bet you've never heard that one before! Getting ideas is no problem; they keep ambushing me where I least expect them. (No, brain, I don't need a wacky Princess Tutu/Yu-Gi-Oh! crossover adventure comedy about human sacrifice right now.) It's sitting myself down and concentrating on one project long enough to get it written.

Right now my main focus is--or would be, if I focused--a Western/Horror AU fic for Princess Tutu. Clearly this is the best idea in the history of thinking, and my story will be fantastic. I even know how it will end! I have a sequel half-planned! I just keep... not finishing the first chapter.

So I decided to join this community and complain a bit. I think I can do this if I stop waffling. Thank you for listening.

Comments

[dhae_knight_1]

Do you know what's going to happen in the first chapter? Have you figured out just how your characters end up at your ending? Do you know your story question(the thing your ending answers)?

I've found that plotting goes a long way to keep me on track; mostly because my nebulous ideas centers around either a setting (oh, hey, what the world needs is clearly a crossover/fusion beween White Collar and Criminal Minds) or a point along the way (Hotch meets with Gibbs, nuclear explosion at 11). Fitting those into a story framework helps. Somewhat. I suck at finishing stories. ;-)

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I have a pretty clear idea what'll happen in the first few chapters, an overview of how the situation progresses, and a few specific events and conversations that need to happen along the way. The main issues with chapter one are things like deciding exactly where to begin, and whether a few characters will meet the first evening or not until the next day. Mostly stuff that's best solved by just writing it down to see how it looks. I just keep distracting myself because I have an irrational fear of making decisions :D