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@kylie-wingfeather
Advice for writers’ block? Right!
I don’t think talking about it has always helped me, but when it works it’s fine.
1. Try freewriting; just write and write with no idea what you’re writing and see what pops up.
2. Try deepening worldbuilding; It forces you to ground your story and draw the plot out of it. This one really helps me it’s like an instaproblem machine!
–For example, say, we add silver angelfish that fly and are not waterbound. Alright, now they’re a protected species and killing them is poaching. Instaproblem; what character in your story is desperate enough to kill them for food/other and why? (It’s really fun!!!)
3. Try deepening POV; it forces you to ground the character arc and draw the plot out of it more. You take a particular aspect of your character that you want to demonstrate clearly and start writing around that.
–For example, I have a character with loads of trauma and clinical anxiety and I wanted to emphasis how caring and starved for affection he was which would’ve been more difficult to notice with his generally distant air. And also how he approached relationships all other factors aside, to hammer in his fluctuating trust issues/gullibility. Ergo I inserted with wulfling (street cat thingy blahblah) that followed him about and the interaction there really highlighted his character and set the stage for the actual plot.
4. Try deepening theme; it forces you to ground the themes and draw the plot out of it blah blah blah. I think POV is generally easier but these really go simultaneously for me most often. But take one aspect of the theme and find a way to emphasis it.
–For example, my theme involves addressing gray areas in morals a lot and how much does duress defend etc. So I set my really ideal character with a really harsh dilemma (at least, it’s the running disaster XD); if he doesn’t murder X, hundreds of people will be executed, but killing X is not self-defense, or is it?
5. Try shortstorying an image in your story; if you have flashes of inspiration but you don’t quite know how to connect the dots or prep for the story beats try taking a section of your story and turning it into a shortstory. Besides being really fun, it’ll also make you remember why you loved this story in the first place (probably XD)
6. Try writing a paragraph summing up your scene goals before writing a chapter. It really helps me focus on what I want to write and all 🙂