User blog:BeautifulSnowfur/How To Finish A Story

Okay, so. I have never finished a story. I have written only four- four stories, and finished zero. I think I know what my problem is, and maybe this will apply to some of you, too!

NOTE: of course, this won't apply to some people, and I don't even know if this is a good idea. But at least it applies to me... wait... actually I don't know if it applies because I've never tried it..... -_- Okay, I don't know what I'm doing here so don't expect this to work xD

So, here's what I've been thinking.

When I have an idea for a story, I think my idea is so awesome and perfect and I can't stop thinking about it. It's the only thing I want to do, and I write it whenever I have a chance. When I'm not writing it, basically every thought that goes through my brain is about how to make my story better. Before I know it, I've thought up the whole storyline. I keep on thinking, "When my character will do this, this will happen. And then after that, this and that will happen!! And it'll be so exciting because in my character's past, this happened so now she [or he] is so excited because she loves this person and..." well, you get the picture.

So you have this perfect idea of this story in your head, and you write the story whenever you have time. You make up all the big details, the small details, you even come across a good sentence that a random person in real life said, and you think, "I'll use that in my story! One of my characters will say it and it'll be so dramatic," or whatever.

But then, after you've written a certain amount of your story, whether it's in the beginning, the end, or in between, suddenly you start realizing that, sadly, you don't have that much inspiration for it. Maybe you're stuck in the middle of a part where your character is giving a speech.. or there's a fight scene and you're horrible at those... or whatever. Or maybe you just somehow don't have any inspiration for your story.

You want to pinch yourself and say, "Come on already! Just write and maybe you'll get through this no-inspiration zone! The idea for this story was so awesome and you made so many plans for it, you can't give up now, seriously?"

But you can't. Slowly you lose even the excitement for your story. Or maybe that story is still sitting there unedited for a long time because, even though you still think your story was well written, and the story doesn't seem old and noobyish and you still think it's a pretty good story, maybe you just can't get through a certain part, or you would write it if you weren't writing something else right now, something that you have much more inspiration for... for now at least.

This is my solution, so don't expect it to work for you. Anyways, I've been thinking a lot about this: why on earth can I never finish my stories????

Maybe it's because I might be an extreme perfectionist when it comes to my ideas and how to make them better. But I observed some things... Like this show that my two brothers watch. It's called Red vs Blue, a show based off of Halo. My brothers love that show to no end.

Anyways, it's just this stupid comedy. It starts out with the whole concept of the show being of these two bases in that desert map thingy from Halo, and there are two bases, on for the Red team and one for the Blue team. Both teams have like, only 6 characters or something, and both teams have no brains whatsoever. It's actually hilarious. (But not for kids. Seriously, you younger people, do not watch this show without permission from your parents. This show is actually mainly for adults, i think...) Anyway, basically the whole purpose in the first few episodes is just for the story to be funny and stupid. But, then the storyline gets more complicated. It gets more dramatic, there are sad scenes, and, I have to admit, completely just amazing fight scenes, still the whole time being just hilarious and stupid. Even I like it a little.

I was observing that and I thought, "I wonder if the creators of this show planned all of this... Well, it doesn't look like it, because it was so stupid and seemed to not have any purpose in the beginning. But then it all got so complicated....."

Now, of course my solution is not to 'write a story for no reason and then slowly the storyline will get more awesome'. Weelll... Maybe that is the exaggerated version of my idea... i dunno just keep reading, okay? xD

But seriously, how will you make your story as awesome as it is in your head? I'm not saying that you should write your stories having no purpose at all, I mean, all stories are different and some of them require a whole bunch of thinking and planning. But... maybe you just want to see how it is to finish a story and then work from there.

Okay, I'm just rambling on and on, I'm sorry if I'm like, not getting to the point and it's frustrating and I'm explaining too much details, I'm working on that...

So finally, here's my solution: Maybe you want to just finish one frickin story, so maybe try this... Think of just a basic setting for your story. At least make up your character's name and stuff, but it doesn't have to be that complicated.

Just write. Um, maybe to some of you... like me... you can't 'just write' and make up stuff as you go, you have to think about it. Remember, I don't know what I'm doing, for all you and I know, this idea is crap lol

um I don't really know what else to say about that part...

Okay if that doesn't work, then try starting over with your story. I'll explain.

Okay, like me for example... I thought of this story idea (not cat related, and it's not on this wiki). It's about a fifteen-year-old girl who has enormous wings and lives in a world full of people who have all kinds of powers. I have made up so many details about the storyline. But after I had written just the first chapter, I felt myself having less and less excitement about the story until finally, well, I'm not really that excited for it anymore.

But I'm tired of this. I'm so tired of not ever being able to finish a story, and I really wanna make this work. So I'm going to make myself be inspired. I thought, maybe I'll start over! I've already made up the basic events in this girl's life before the story starts. How about I just start over?

How about I just go back in this character's life, maybe when she was like, nine or something. I'll just write a random part about her with her sister. This'll give me the perfect opportunity to get the readers attached to her sister before I mercilessly just kill her and make the story extremely sad and :D *evil laugh*

Maybe, the chapters don't have to be like, so close together as far as the storyline. Like, the next chapter could be like, a year or maybe even more, into the future. The whole time, I'll be reminding myself not to make any plans for the storyline, not to get too much ahead of myself. For all I know, everything I've thought out could be replaced with the new story that I'm now rethinking, and it could be ten thousand times than how I imagined it before.

Maybe, just maybe, I'll actually finish it if this idea works. And, who knows, miracles happen! What if I actually publish it? In real life? Of course that'll never happen... but I'm trying to get there anyway.

So, yeah, I guess if you really really want to finish a story, but you've already started it and have no inspiration, try starting over. Now, if you have no idea what I'm trying to say - of course you don't, I'm terrible with words, and large chunks of this is probably frustrating, needless explaining  - then ask me in the comments. I don't care if I have to write another blog as long as this- I wrote it to help people here, after all.

Love ya guys! <3

-Snowfur

I h a d t h e   t i m e o f m y    l i f e    f i g h t i n g    d r a g o n s    w i t h y o u   07:08, January 6, 2016 (UTC)