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I frequently have the problem of starting a story with an idea—either one recently conceived or one held in mind for months, even years—only to find it bland or boring after a day or so and abandon...
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System
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2019-12-08T08:56:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T08:56:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
I frequently have the problem of starting a story with an idea—either one recently conceived or one held in mind for months, even years—only to find it bland or boring after a day or so and abandoning it. I have developed two partially effective strategy for this: 1. Finish a story idea as quickly as is possible--usually within the span of a single day. This, however, is conducive to bad pacing and deviation of the final product from the original ideas. 2. Limited the number of words written each day to no more than 500, this alleviates the pacing problem mostly, but seem to only delay the eventual abandonment rather than prevent it. What might be some other strategies for such a problem?
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System
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2018-05-28T21:21:06Z (over 6 years ago)
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