It's Easier in My Head

All my one shots are usually just about a single event, so the storyboarding thing wouldn't work too well for me.

loverfayce.:

All my one shots are usually just about a single event, so the storyboarding thing wouldn't work too well for me.

Most of my one shots are these glimpses into a series of events that have been going on for like, a long time. Honestly, sometimes I think I write novellas. I've never posted them on here, but still...

I just can never seem to finish all my "Next Great American Novels". I get bored too easily. And one-shots/novellas provide me a manageable canvas to work with, instead of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, if that makes sense.

sam worthington.:

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.

Mine are usually snapshots, or what I call "moment in time" fics. I think doing storyboarding would sort of overanalyze everything and kill the plot.

Not that I'm not saying it might not work for others, but it certainly wouldn't work for me.

guide druscilla home:

Mine are usually snapshots, or what I call "moment in time" fics. I think doing storyboarding would sort of overanalyze everything and kill the plot.

Not that I'm not saying it might not work for others, but it certainly wouldn't work for me.

Yeah, I getcha. I wish I could write those kind of one-shots. Seriously. I suck so hard at them. Everything I do has to end up all complicated and crap.

sam worthington.:

Yeah, I getcha. I wish I could write those kind of one-shots. Seriously. I suck so hard at them. Everything I do has to end up all complicated and crap.

Eh, it takes a lot of practice.
It took me years before I could do it "right".

And I like complicated oneshots, too.

Just not what I usually write (though I do write those).

sam worthington.:

I just can never seem to finish all my "Next Great American Novels". I get bored to easily. And one-shots/novellas provide me a manageable canvas to work with, instead of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, if that makes sense.

All mine are never good enough, but I like them anyways.
It seems like I always want to make this big impact or something with my writing, but I can never really place what it's supposed to be. Maybe I'm just being arrogant.

This happens all the time. I can't write what I want readers to visualize, it always comes off as a watered-down version of what I had in my head.

It happens a lot when I listen to music and before I fall asleep.

When I sit down to write a story, I've got the scenes mapped out in my head, I've got every movement and piece of dialogue down to a science. And usually I'm able to convey what I want to come across in words.

However, I do get moments where it's so hard to find the words to describe the motions and the atmosphere of it all. Like now, for example. I'm trying to write a one-shot involving a mother-son scene. I've been stuck at the same part for the past ten minutes because I want the emotion to come across perfectly, and it's just not there yet.

^^^ beauitfully put. I usualy imagine every scene and detail without writting it out, but when it's about a scene that has to really make an impact it's a lot harder to write.

I can imagine the scenes and describe them perfectly, but then it's like, "Dialoge time!" and I go, "Dammit."
I usually just talk to myself as the different characters in the conversation and then sort of mentally note which topics worked and which ones didn't. But then it still usually takes me forever to write them out, especially romantic scenes. I usually just do romantic stuff as like, paragraph longs, but the bigs scenes I die on and re-write them so many times because I think they're cheesy. Just like, two people talking about their relationship, or something like that.....I beats me up every time.

This is exactly my problem.
I'll wake up in the middle of the night and think of some great idea and I'll even start plotting the idea out in my head, but when I wake up in the morning and try to piece together the idea, it sounds like

Sometimes I narrate in my head without realising I'd do it. And then I'd try and remember what I said but I completely forget it :(

This happens to me a lot. I have a story that's great in my head but I don't know how to write it in a document. It's almost like a movie in my head. I'd rather film it than write it sometimes. Sometimes I even have scenes in my head between the characters already.

This happens so often. I get these insights into my characters or an idea to further the plot, but then struggle to transfer it onto the page. Very irritating.

This happens all the time. I have a habit of 'writing' in my head all the time - when I'm falling asleep, doing schoolwork, listening to music, in the car, shopping, etc. It just never stops. I'm like "Oh, that's perfect - what a great scene!" and then I sit down, stare at the screen, and...I go blank.

Irritating as hell.

I get scenes in my head. It's awful. Sometimes it's dialogue. I can't even put it to words in my head. It sucks.

THIS IS ME THOUGH

I have scenes I've envisioned perfectly in my head, but when I try to write them, they sound like poo and god it destroys me inside because I want it to be this beautifully poetic thing but it's not and if there's anything I really despise doing, it's re-writing things.

Dialogue I'm fine with. It's the actual scenes of describing it and trying to get the characters' emotions captured perfectly is what drives me insane.

Anytime this happens to me, I take a walk and try to clear my head, then get back into it. It works 95% of the time.