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Begininings or endings?
Ok, so I'm not really a writer, but I write short stories just for the fun of it sometimes. Do you ever have trouble, once you have an idea for a great story/novel/whatever, with putting down the words for the beginning or the ending of it? Sometimes I will have a really good idea for the beginning of a story, but if I get to the end it sort of falters and doesn't seem as strong, or if I have a really good idea for an ending I can't for the life of me think of a beginning. I was just wondering if that ever happens to you, and if it does is it more common to have trouble writing the beginning or the ending? _________________ it is my lot in life to meet every ass hole on the planet and admire them for some quality that they possess that most others do not see b/c they can not see beyond the ass holiness ~permanently perplexed
Fri May 09, 2008 9:49 am
urhangovergirl
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Location: center of the purple haze
*sigh* all the time...
but that's where research helps. It can spawn a lot of ideas. _________________ I will gladly ravage you Tuesday for a ravaging today...
Fri May 09, 2008 6:35 pm
Sephonae
Joined: 10 Jun 2007
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Location: New York
You could try just writing what you've got and seeing where that takes you. Maybe your idea is the middle, or maybe it's the penultimate paragraph, but the joy is in the journey. You can always revise later! _________________ <=== Dressing in dismal chic and maintaining her detached aura of aristocratic chill since 1985.
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"You can't wipe your ass with empty promises." - thread title, by walk
I find the ending really easy. Too, much TV in my youth I expcet. What bogs me down is plot. I have a setting, a time era, and terrific characters. But I fall blank on excitement.
Maybe, I am being to demanding. But I can not do a story board for my book. It develops as my characters, and my interest develop.
My fear is being b o re ing. Anyone else have those fears.
Blessing to all that desire to write. _________________ Happieness is what you get for being real.
Fri May 09, 2008 9:43 pm
zendao42
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Really, it's that pesky middle bit that gives me fits-
that & general laziness...
Fri May 09, 2008 11:37 pm
Unkle Greggo
Joined: 23 May 2008
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Re: Begininings or endings?
permanentlyperplexed wrote:
Ok, so I'm not really a writer, but I write short stories just for the fun of it sometimes. Do you ever have trouble, once you have an idea for a great story/novel/whatever, with putting down the words for the beginning or the ending of it? Sometimes I will have a really good idea for the beginning of a story, but if I get to the end it sort of falters and doesn't seem as strong, or if I have a really good idea for an ending I can't for the life of me think of a beginning. I was just wondering if that ever happens to you, and if it does is it more common to have trouble writing the beginning or the ending?
Something happens to my concepts between my brain and fingertips. I guess the chubby little bastards aren't as passsionate as the rest of me.
Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:16 pm
knikkki
Joined: 13 Jun 2005
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Location: Davis, CA
I think Carl Reiner just published a book of a bunch of beginnings of novels he started be never finished. _________________ My Book My Myspace
Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:59 pm
y
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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Unfortunately I have notebooks full of beginnings and endings. It's like diet writing - 0 fat, 0 calories and less filling. _________________ Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:35 pm
mllefifi
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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I suppose that, if I were ever to write fiction, it would not have beginnings, middles, or endings, but just infrastructure. That is, the things in the story would connect in some way -- unless they get broken. _________________ "If you allow yourself to be offended, then you're a bit of [a] nitwit."
(Christopher Moore)
Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:43 pm
permanentlyperplexed
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^i have notebooks full of beginnings and endings too, Y, (mostly beginnings though). I've always wondered where the middles were. _________________ it is my lot in life to meet every ass hole on the planet and admire them for some quality that they possess that most others do not see b/c they can not see beyond the ass holiness ~permanently perplexed
Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:42 pm
zendao42
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
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Location: Somewhere in a galaxy near you
permanentlyperplexed wrote:
^i have notebooks full of beginnings and endings too, Y, (mostly beginnings though). I've always wondered where the middles were.
So, we're all writing donuts?
Suddenly, I'm hungry...
Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:43 am
permanentlyperplexed
Joined: 22 Apr 2008
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Location: South Carolina
zendao42 wrote:
permanentlyperplexed wrote:
^i have notebooks full of beginnings and endings too, Y, (mostly beginnings though). I've always wondered where the middles were.
So, we're all writing donuts?
Suddenly, I'm hungry...
Dunken's is around the corner and up the road about two miles _________________ it is my lot in life to meet every ass hole on the planet and admire them for some quality that they possess that most others do not see b/c they can not see beyond the ass holiness ~permanently perplexed
Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:03 pm
zendao42
Joined: 05 Sep 2006
Posts: 13570
Location: Somewhere in a galaxy near you
permanentlyperplexed wrote:
zendao42 wrote:
permanentlyperplexed wrote:
^i have notebooks full of beginnings and endings too, Y, (mostly beginnings though). I've always wondered where the middles were.
So, we're all writing donuts?
Suddenly, I'm hungry...
Dunken's is around the corner and up the road about two miles
Seriously, I have a recipe for homemade donuts that I need to put in the cookbook-
hey, there's another way to procrastinate writing stories...
Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:29 am
FattyFattyPorkFace
Joined: 10 Aug 2004
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Location: Michigan
Endings. I am quite some way into my work and the ending is impending and it's tending to be sending me round the bend. It's looming presence makes it difficult to focus on the challenges at hand. I'm considering using the AG's trick of a timeline with post-its so I can work out what is left to be done. _________________ Twitter: jefftunes
Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:05 am
mllefifi
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
Posts: 8964
Location: Deleoware
zendao42 wrote:
[...] Seriously, I have a recipe for homemade donuts that I need to put in the cookbook-
hey, there's another way to procrastinate writing stories...
Once upon a time there was a girl named zen.
She liked to create stories by kneading dough into different shapes to spell out the words.
She tried all the shapes of the alphabet to make her stories.
One day she started writing the story that begins this way: "The brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
When she got to the letter "O" she said, "Oh, I give up. This is making me go nuts."
And from that day forward, because she became a nut, zen would make only the letter "O" out of her dough.
And that is the story of the DOUGH-NUT.
_________________ "If you allow yourself to be offended, then you're a bit of [a] nitwit."
(Christopher Moore)
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