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 Combating writer's block at the moment. When you're trying to write a certain scene but it's just not working, what do you do?

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Date: 2017-01-30 08:31 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] batman
I plot out what's going to happen with brackets so my stories tend to be littered with [THIS GOES HERE] and then [AND THEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN IT IS AWESOME] and then I go and fill in each square bracket with prose once I work out what's going there. I also don't write sequentially, so I can jump from scene to scene if necessary. That said, if it's the last scene I either do something else or I power through on the basis that even if it's terrible, it's easier to fix terrible than it is to fix non-existent.

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Date: 2017-01-30 07:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] meridian_rose
Yes, that's good advice. I'm also a non linear writer and I often have scenes I have to write last :) I've heard the [BRACKETS] method before and I've found when I'm in full flow and can't think of the right word/phrase it does help to write the "wrong" word in ALL CAPS or mark a phrase in bold to fix later.
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