It's Easier in My Head

ImxNotxOkayxIxPromis:

It happens to me. I hate how I'll be sitting at work or in school and I'll have the perfect Idea's for a story I need to update or on I want to write, But right when I go to write it down some one needs me or My teacher calls on me and I forget.

Ooh, I hate that. I've started carrying around the notebook of the story I want to work on and write it in class.
What's sucky for me is I usually get my best ideas in the middle of the night when I'm about to go to sleep X.x By the next morning, I usually forget everything I thought up ><

Venomous.:

I think it has to do with how we're limited by our vocabulary when we write. In our heads, we can imagine smells, tastes, sights and feelings on a much different level to how we portray them with words. Does that make sense?

YES.
It makes perfect sense. I absolutely hate how limited language is. It's almost like in our heads, everything is 3D, but when we write or talk it gets put into 2D. We can't see every aspect of it anymore.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I 'write' some of the best things while I'm in the shower.
But when I get out and type it up it just dosn't seem the same.

IcamaneHatake:

ImxNotxOkayxIxPromis:

It happens to me. I hate how I'll be sitting at work or in school and I'll have the perfect Idea's for a story I need to update or on I want to write, But right when I go to write it down some one needs me or My teacher calls on me and I forget.

Ooh, I hate that. I've started carrying around the notebook of the story I want to work on and write it in class.
What's sucky for me is I usually get my best ideas in the middle of the night when I'm about to go to sleep X.x By the next morning, I usually forget everything I thought up ><

That's happened to me so many times that I've started writing them down before I go to bed and then I end up spending like six more hours writing Ideas.

I usually try to type my ideas out. But seeing how i'm not always at a computer, I just try to jot them down on any avaliable paper. I hate writing down full chapters long hand. It's so much easier to go back and change things in Word. I usually just write in my head. Sometimes I even lay in bed talking aloud to myself, working out different situations.

I have scenes popping into my head usually when I'm in bed or something. They just seem so much more real and alive as a figment of my imagination, and when it comes to writing them down they always seem more lacklustre to me.

Nothing really turns out as well as I imagine it.
A lot of the time when I plan stories or events in my head, they play out like a movie scene so putting the image into words can be tricky.

Smashed Pumpkin:

Nothing really turns out as well as I imagine it.
A lot of the time when I plan stories or events in my head, they play out like a movie scene so putting the image into words can be tricky.

That's like me.
Even when I think in words it never reads the same when I type it out.

Holy crap this happens to me all the time. It's so stupid. I'm always frustrated because of this. My good ideas sound crappy because I can't write it down the same.

Damn, how did this thread die? 0.o

This has been happening to me sooo much with the second part for a story I'm trying to write. I'm writing it in a very scene-oriented way (as opposed to timeline-oriented), and the scenes are perfect in my head but always sound when I even start typing it up.

I randomly started thinking about this in the drive-thru at Long John Silver's.

I think a large part of it is that when you have the plot in your head, you know it. You know what the characters feel, think, and already know exactly how the story is supposed to me you feel and think.

And then you somehow have to take everything you already know and figure out a way to present it to the reader/audience. Things get lost in translation.

guide druscilla home:

I randomly started thinking about this in the drive-thru at Long John Silver's.

I think a large part of it is that when you have the plot in your head, you know it. You know what the characters feel, think, and already know exactly how the story is supposed to me you feel and think.

And then you somehow have to take everything you already know and figure out a way to present it to the reader/audience. Things get lost in translation.

It is like you're in my mind...

I think it is easier, if you're planning a story in your head you don't see grammar/spelling/wording mistakes, and it flows better, and makes sense to you. But when it comes to putting it on paper, you have to make sure it will make sense to everyone else, and that you've got it to sound exactly how you pictured it.

I have a hard time writing the story down. When I have an idea of what my characters are saying in my head. I tend to act it out myself privately because it sounds nice when I do it. But it goes on paper, it doesn't sound right at all.

I always think it would be easy to write something, but when it comes down to the writing part, I wouldn't even know how to start.

And not to mention, it gets even harder when I'm coming close to writing the ending.

It happens with me a lot, especially when it comes to smut. I know what they look like, what they do, how it goes, who fucks who, etc. And I can imagine it all very very well when I'm trying to sleep.
But I have this huge block when I go to write it down. D: I don't know what to do.

jeordie.:

Nothing really turns out as well as I imagine it.
A lot of the time when I plan stories or events in my head, they play out like a movie scene so putting the image into words can be tricky.

I do the exact same thing, and have your same problem. All my stories start out as movies in my head (with soundtracks and everything! ).
I've found that actually story-boarding (like you would with an actual movie) helps me get all my thoughts out.

^ I agree with that. If you plan it out like, THIS happens, and then THIS happens in the next chapter, it's so much easier.

loverfayce.:

^ I agree with that. If you plan it out like, THIS happens, and then THIS happens in the next chapter, it's so much easier.

I guess that would work for chaptered stories.
But I don't think it helps with those of us who favor writing oneshots.
I know my oneshots always turn out so much different than what I pictured in my head.

guide druscilla home:

I guess that would work for chaptered stories.
But I don't think it helps with those of us who favor writing oneshots.
I know my oneshots always turn out so much different than what I pictured in my head.

That happens to me sometimes, but the story-boarding thing works even with my one-shots.

Maybe it's because all my one-shots are a bajillion words long.