For all you authors...

[yappichick]

When you get stuck on a scene or part of your story, so you force yourself to write through it or do you set it aside and hope that you'll be able to come back to it later?  I've got this story outlined, but I'm having trouble pushing through this scene... :O :O

Comments

[ellethom.livejournal.com]

I QM PROBABLY A BAD EXAMPLE HERE y\YAPPI, BUT YEH I WALK AWAY FROM A FIC, HELL I HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO LEAVE IT ALONE FOR LIKE FIVE MONTHS AND COME BACK TO IT. i HAVE A 70 PAGE X FILES AU THAT I STILL HAVE NOT FINISHED FOR THAT REASONLESS. maybe I SHOULD GO BACK TO IT AND SEND IT IN FOR THE XF BIG BANG.

[azure-horizon.livejournal.com]

I force myself to write through it and then go back to it later. Even if what you write is rubbish, it's good to know you have that bit written. It's easier to edit something than try to write it from scratch when you have it in your mind that you struggle with it.

[bearit.livejournal.com]

I write very linearly, so I take a break, see if I can't get back into it later, and if not, I figure out if there's a better, different way going about writing the scene. If not, then I force myself to go through with it, even if it means I have to rewrite it a couple of times later anyway.

[oparu.livejournal.com]

I skip it. usually if I don't want to write it, there's a reason. ;)

[sangate.livejournal.com]

In that position too atm. Am writing that one you saw on facebook, and stuck. Been stuck for a week, and have set it aside. Very bad, because I need to finish it before Monday, and I don't have any days off :S So yeah, I stop writing. Not sure if that's the right way to go about it though..