Definitely not alone in that predicaments! Actually, I'm writing about something similar on my post next Thursday... sort of. I'm glad you're not going exactly where I'm going otherwise I would have to rewrite the entire thing, bummer. But we're good! When I'm really stuck, I turn back to the past. I have the character of Tom Keegan, a homicide cop in 1950 San Francisco that always gets my brain going. I go online and look at old pictures, old newspaper headlines, and such, and bingo something pops into my head. Something worth working on. That guy is my savior, no kidding!
Thanks for reading, Martine! Wow, glad you don't have to rewrite your post, too! Interesting that you turn to the past to get the creative flow going again! I'll do that too once in a while. Whatever works, right?
I'll put a link to your post in mine, they are complementary... and if it generates traffic to your blog, all good, right? I do a bunch of things when I'm stuck, revisiting characters from other shorts is a good trigger. I also used to go to the mag "The First Line". They never took one of my stories but everything I started with one of their prompts got published eventually.
Definitely not alone in that predicaments! Actually, I'm writing about something similar on my post next Thursday... sort of. I'm glad you're not going exactly where I'm going otherwise I would have to rewrite the entire thing, bummer. But we're good! When I'm really stuck, I turn back to the past. I have the character of Tom Keegan, a homicide cop in 1950 San Francisco that always gets my brain going. I go online and look at old pictures, old newspaper headlines, and such, and bingo something pops into my head. Something worth working on. That guy is my savior, no kidding!
Thanks for reading, Martine! Wow, glad you don't have to rewrite your post, too! Interesting that you turn to the past to get the creative flow going again! I'll do that too once in a while. Whatever works, right?
I'll put a link to your post in mine, they are complementary... and if it generates traffic to your blog, all good, right? I do a bunch of things when I'm stuck, revisiting characters from other shorts is a good trigger. I also used to go to the mag "The First Line". They never took one of my stories but everything I started with one of their prompts got published eventually.
I can cross link to your newsletter as well! I will also check out "The First Line."