I'm always writing stories, & from wht i've been told by my friends, they're really good. But the problem is tht I can nevr finish them! I get so bored with it tht I just abandon it & move on 2 something more interesting 2 write about. How do I stop this?
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HelpingHand.
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Force yourself to finish one. Pretend that you are being PAID to finish one. +5
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Bight the bullet and get it done. I have the same problems with songs, most are incomplete.
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sounds like you might do better at writing short stories that you can finish before you get bored.
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I've forgotten whose advice it was to budding writers, but it was this: "write chapter 2". If you've got further than this, well done. Writing is about keeping going i.e. perspiration, rather than inspiration. Get on with it now!
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Know the ending before you start writing, and write "backwards," making the story more interesting to you as you explore all of the various routes toward the conclusion. Just a thought... I have trouble finishing mine too. I do find that if I read my own work out loud as if I were telling the story to someone else I tend to think of more ways to improve it.
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Keep those ideas, because if the story is unfinished, that is all that they are, in a file and do not even think of throwing them away. One day you can go through them again and continue on the ones that are still interesting to you. It's a process and you are on your way to a great story, don't try to rush it. Keep writing.
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i know how u feel i have written a script on the pc and i managed to finish thins one but none others . what do u rite them about?
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Are you really bored or could it be that you have no clue as to HOW your story could, should, or would END? Do you know how it should end, but do you get stuck as to what path the journey will take after your characters are on their way? If you want to write, then you will write, it's a job even if it is something you love to do. Maybe you are bored, but for myself, when I can't seem to get on with it...generally, it's because I feel stuck. Even if I know where I'm going, I get off the right path and suddenly have no brilliant ideas as to how to get back on. My "trick" is to just force myself to write. Sometimes I hit the flow, other times I slug way way along get back on track...get to a "better place" in the story then I can go back and chip away at the "crap" from the stuck period to make it blend in better or if it's beyond redemption, delete and rewrite.
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Grow up. Focus.
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I do this alot too. Sometimes, it's better to just leave them for a while, but then come back to them once you have new idea's in your head. I do this all the time. I once started a story about 2 years ago. And last year, I opened it back up, read it through, changed a few things, then finished the whole thing. It helps to sometimes distance yourself, and what also helps is to read other's stories. No don't steal anything, but use the general idea of it if you like it. :)
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write what you want to and not what your friends tell you to...you can still publish unfinshished works..so mabye you don't have to finish them...save them and put them all into a collected works portfolio and see if you can get it published ... or at least show it to your friends
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Write on paper first. Sit in your favourite place. For the first five minutes scribble ideas on a page, get them out of the system. The middle can sometimes be the most tedious bit - you just want to get to the juicy bits! Put real passion into your characters. If you're using real passion and emotion with them, you can't get bored. :D
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Ha, my sister does that too. Try writing out the ending of the story when you start it, so you know where you're going and have something to shoot for.
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