THIS IS SO COOL. You start thinking about where the capital city would be, where the most food could be grown, who lives over on that little island…it’s very cool.
DO YOU KNOW THAT KIND OF WRITER’S BLOCK WHERE YOU ALREADY HAVE A PLOT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO WRITE BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO WRITE IT AND YOU JUST STARE AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN FOR HOURS UNTIL YOU FINALLY CLOSE THE DOCUMENT AND CURSE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE
CAUSE I DO
The best thing to do when that happens (trust me I know) is to use a program like yWriter that separates everything into chapters and chapters into scenes, and just start making a summary of every scene.
Just basic stuff like “Okay, here’s where they find the book and this guy freaks out“ or ”Oh here’s the big reveal part. Things I want: This kid to cry when he says he lost the key, the other guy to say he knew the whole time, and maybe they talk about that thing from ch1?? I’ll decide later.“
One of my favorite parts about yWriter specifically is the time, locations, POV, and characters function. Like you can just look at a scene and see that it’s from Sally’s perspective, it takes place in the garden at midnight, and Joey and Bob are there with her.
When I have that kind of writer’s block, I just go through and create the scenes I want to happen so when I actually have the mindset to write, I already know what I want tin it, I just need to make it nice and pretty.
Not sure this would work with the way I write, but it sounds very useful! And yWriter is free too.
