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Ariel Ashira replied to the topic For All The Historical Fictioners in the forum General Writing Discussions 7 years, 1 month ago
Currently I don’t have a WIP. Terrible, I know. I’ve been going through a writer’s block. It’s just that I like so many time periods that I’m not sure what I should go for. I haven’t had that dash of inspiration for a certain story yet.
Whenever I have a problem with writers block, I just research. A lot sometimes, but before long I always find something that I want to know more about and then I cant stop how much I want to write about something and crazy story ideas just start flowing. Maybe you do this, but I thought Id mention it. And I dont know about you, but if I want to write about a particular thing, I get stubborn. 😀 Like I decided in one of my book when I hardly knew what the plot was gonna be that I was going to write about the Shoshoni indians. Sure would have been a lot easier to pick a different tribe or switch to a defferent one, but after pushing through all this research and hitting dead ends, I will never regret learning about things like this. Forgotten, crazy things that happened that I am gonna write about so that hopefully a lot more people can know about them. Yeah, you probably know all that, sorry for ranting.
Thanks for your help. I was leaning most in that direction of just giving the idea, not all the details. Besides, its not the major point in the book, so although it helps the plot to have it in there, I dont really need to go into detail for it to help the plot/theme/whatever. It might be giving unneccesary gore while turning away some readers.












