If you are still unable to move past the chapter, how will you tackle it? What was it about that chapter that left you feeling stuck? How many chapters has made you feel stuck, since you started the story? Do you find that some chapters are easier to get through than others? Do you outline your chapters enough?
Bonus Question:
Was there ever a chapter that you did not like how it came out? Meaning how it didn’t go in the direction you needed it to.
Thoughts and feelings?
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If your answer to this is simply “I just got back writing”, then how in the hell did you allow yourself to get stuck in the first place? Were you even stuck at all or taking a small break from it?
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I normally just power through something real rough and just insist I can fix it later. If it’s reallly feeling impossible i’ll make a little note in the document and skip the scene. Something like ***add this fight with character x and character y is sounded.
If it’s boring. Or is a character I don’t love. Or it’s just hard to write in general and pisses me off.
Over half
Yes if i’m pumped for it and it has the characters I like most i’m all for it.
I’d say so. I’ve tried under, over and just enoughing it and it doesn’t really help when it’s just a bad chapter to write.
All the time.
It really depends.
If the chapter is a real bother, I might start over from the beginning of the chapter and go off in a new direction and delete the old one.
If the chapter is super duper important and sets things up for the ending, then I might just skip ahead to a chapter/scene that I have a better idea of and write that instead. Then I try to work backwards and connect that chapter with the one I had skipped ahead to!
Some chapters come easier than others for sure! Some are just a drag to get through! It’s not uncommon for me to get stuck on at least a third of the chapters in a story, probably closer to half.
I can’t do story outlines or I lose interest in writing them. I have to make things up as I go. When I start writing I just have an idea of the ending, a couple of characters and the overall message/theme/story that I want to convey.
Often times I don’t even have the beginning figured out. I always try to drop the reader into the middle of an action of some sort. It’s quite common for me to throw out and rewrite the beginning multiple times. In fact, I’d say that I rewrite the start of a story more than any other part.
There have been a few finished chapters across different projects I’ve written that I haven’t been fully satisfied with, but I had done a few drafts of and was too fatigued to give another go. Some of them were also filled with information that was too important for me to cut them out. Sometimes you’ve just got to settle and keep the ball rolling!
Just sprint, write it. Go for it, time yourself. You can go back and edit it at the end.
Lost motivation, was tired. Couldn’t get past a sentence.
One of them, after the action happened.
Yeah, it depends on what happens during them.
No idea. I let the ideas flow and trust the process somewhat.
Yeah but I edited it. No harm in doing that.
I can’t remember getting stuck, exactly. But I often write a chapter and then read it back later and find it boring. So when that happens I go back to my notes on how to write chapters and then rewrite it. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
● Character wants to ( goal ) but ( obstacle ) therefore ( conflict )
● open with a status update
● heighten the tension and the stakes
● end with a promise about the future
What to include in a chapter:
• How has the protagonist or another character changed in the chapter?
• How does the chapter move the story forward?
• Are any new characters introduced? What is their purpose?
• What new information is revealed?
• Were any questions set up in this chapter to be answered later?
• Were any questions answered that were set up previously?
• Does the setting change? How did the characters get there?
• What big decisions are made?
• Are any subplots introduced or resolved?
• What obstacles are now in the character’s way to make things more difficult?
I am still on that one chapter 
But I think I’ve found a workaround by changing the order of the plot ever so slightly, but I think it’ll work out better this way.
I also have another chapter that I’ve got this problem for but I’m waiting for my brain to actually catch up with that part of the story before I can tackle it. I hope it comes out well because it’s an event in book 2 but in a different perspective.
Usually it goes in the direction I want. Sometimes I have to tweak the plot a little, but that happens sometimes anyway
I find that I only get stuck when I don’t have my outline planned enough. For instance, I have two stories I’m stuck on right now because I told myself I’d just start writing and figure out the details as I went. Now I have a basic plot but no concept of how to get from point a to point b because I don’t know what the middle is going to consist of. I’m still stuck on them. Perhaps I should start brainstorming and coming up with more of a structured plan. Because I have that for Synthetic: Genesis, and I never got stuck on it.
Sounds like me with Project Succession, only I continue to keep writing, regardless.
I tried continuing to write with one and ended up making it worse. Basically painted myself into a corner with it. If I want to be able to make any real progress, I’m going to have to go back, analyse it, make some changes, and form a plan.
It is the craziest thing, because Project Succession has this in spades. Other ways, it is sorely lacking, while in other ways there is some serious potential, just got to squint.
For some reason, I know what I need to do with the changes and additions for the next draft.
I NEVER used an outline, I used to do chapter summaries and that didn’t last long.
However, I LOVE writing Project Succession, regardless of these facts.
I guess since I have been taking writing seriously and things have changed in my life, that is why things feel so differently for me and my writing as a whole.
I got my writing groove back or gained something new.
That’s awesome! I’m so glad it’s working for you. I know different methods work for different people, but I have to admit, I’m jealous. It would remove a lot of extra steps if I could just write whatever came into my head like you do. But I need a bit more planning and structure than that. Though, admittedly, not as much as some other writers I know.
There are times I wished I did a small bit of planning, though I am glad I jot things down.
Though not all the time.
Jotting ideas down definitely helps me, because my memory is awful. Unfortunately, I don’t always have a chance to write things down before I forget them tho.
My memory is good some days, horrible and godly awful most days.
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I got past the chapter 
I asked some friends if it would be appropriate for me to use the name of one of my childhood bullies as the name for one of the bullies who gets their butt handed to them in that chapter and after they said yes, I could suddenly finish the chapter 
If I am stuck, I just keep writing.
I forcefully write myself out of writer’s block. I used to stop and procrastinate whenever I got stuck, but not for many years. I can even feel the writer’s block coming. It’s like when you know the drain is clogged.
So, I just get through the knot.
I don’t have any other method. Nothing ground breaking. It’s raw and gritty. Not pretty.