Aug 16, 2025
I’ve taken the painful decision to remove the previous 17k of my WIP and do it over again 😭 I know I’m not supposed to, but the plot got so lost I’ve been at a near standstill for days now. Needs must!
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I’ve taken the painful decision to remove the previous 17k of my WIP and do it over again 😭 I know I’m not supposed to, but the plot got so lost I’ve been at a near standstill for days now. Needs must!
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Gah. I'm at that point with Pinehallow where I have to start tying all my subplots into my main plot before I actually know how the next part happens, which means I can't just write, I have to outline. And it can't just be, put a scene here where these people bond because emotions. It has to move the plot forward.
I know what is going to happen, just not how to get it there. And it doesn't help that part of me wants to go back and work on adding the scenes I now know need to happen in between scenes that are already there, fill it out. But what I really need to do is outline.
Only, I'm a little scared of outlining, because what keeps me writing is the need to know what happens next. I have a previous WIP that I basically wrote a giant, pages on pages, summary style outline for, along with pages of characters notes and by the end I was just done. It felt like I'd already gone on the journey I needed to with these people and there was nothing left to do or know. I don't want that to happen with Monty.
Me looking at my outline that is supposed to help me figure out where to go next:
I write the start and the middle of a story to figure out how it ends, but then I have to hold a gun to my own head to put the rest down on the page, because it doesn't feel like there are any more discoveries coming.
Even though sometimes a couple of little details can still pop up to surprise me, most of it is just getting things from brain to page by that point. I guess my favourite part of writing is not realising something was going to go the way it does, or that the characters had that particular behaviour in mind. Once the ending is more or less in place, the excitement I have about getting there dwindles.
It's not so much more writer's block as it is writer's disinterest.
Anyone else write like that?
(Yes, I am a chronological pantser, not a plotter.)
Fic problems
When you sit down to write and hit a point in the story where you have two, wildly, different options of which way to take it...
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Rewriting the end of this chapter for the third time like “yeah this is better, this is better though, this is much better, yeah but this is better though…”
Me, pantsing my way through this first draft, having already wildly veered away from my (admittedly very loose) outline:
JESUS FUCK WHY IS IT ALL CONNECTED