ZeitPolizei comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DataPacRat 24 June 2015 06:32:46PM 2 points [-]

Seeking writing advice: Tropes vs writing block?

I've started writing bits and pieces for S.I. again, but not nearly at the rate I was writing before my hiatus.

I'm beginning to wonder if I should cheat a bit, and deliberately leave some of the details I'm having trouble getting myself to write about vague, and explain it away with some memory problems of Bunny-the-narrator for that period. Goodness knows there are plenty of ways Bunny's brain has been fiddled with so far, so it's not without precedent; and if it gets me over the hump and into full-scale writing again, it might be worth including the trope for that reason alone, let alone adding another mental issue to play with narratively.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Comment author: ZeitPolizei 25 June 2015 01:17:46PM 1 point [-]

Would it maybe help, if you left some of the details vague at first, to get back into writing, and go back later to rewrite those parts?

Comment author: DataPacRat 25 June 2015 05:45:37PM 0 points [-]

That seems to be the default that I'm settling on. I'm jotting down the plot points I want to happen in such sections, marking them so I know that I have to go back to that, and working on whatever I /can/ get myself to work on in the meantime.