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Q&A How Do you Stave Off Boredom While Writing?

If all your stories started at chapter one and ended in the middle, then try writing the last chapter first. Then the chapter before the last. You also can jump to the first chapter in between. Fro...

posted 13y ago by John Smithers‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar John Smithers‭ · 2019-12-08T01:37:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
If all your stories started at chapter one and ended in the middle, then try writing the last chapter first. Then the chapter before the last. You also can jump to the first chapter in between. From last to first or jumping between end and beginning, but not your normal order. Afraid of a incoherent story? So what, keep writing. Till now you haven't a story at all.

Learn to write faster or give [Lauren's tape recorder](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/2887/how-do-you-stave-off-boredom-while-writing/2895#2895) a chance.

Silence your censor. That's this ugly voice mocking you. Imagine a virtual gun and shoot him in the head. Yell at him, he shall shut up. Write pages after pages "Shut the f_ck up, shut the f_ck up, shut the f\*ck up (with an "u" instead of the star). Kick him, curse him, whatever.

If you still have trouble silencing him, there is a hardcore way to do it. Take the stuff under your bed and burn it. That will either give him an opportunity to mock you more ("burn this shit like the other ones") or it'll have a healthy "Phoenix out of the ashes" effect. That's up to you.

Good luck.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2011-05-25T21:24:36Z (over 13 years ago)
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