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[Popple]

I have an idea for a book. A great idea. These characters I have created and their stories, at least to my knowledge, is something no writer has ever attempted. The problem is though, I can't get from A to B. I have a beginning, I have an end. But how I connect the two? It has plagued me for quite some time. I have written comedy, but comedy is easy. I can just write and it flows from my mind to the keyboard quite easily due to my random and sporadic sense of humor. This though, this is big. Perhaps I still need to work on it in my head some more before attempting to write it again, but I'd still like some opinions.

[Goron Mask]

Just make stuff up, base it off of something even. Thats what all the other writers do.

[Lord Bob]

I have a similar problem. I usually figure out the ending and later parts of a story before I even get near them. As a result, they never get written because of writer's block near the beginning.

[Ligador]

There is something you can do. There is a general scheme for plots, that determines things like the inital desire/need, oposing forces, helping forces, etc.

I'm gonna show it as soon as I'm done getting it in my computer. And credit goes to my writing teacher.

[Kii]

Try just writing. :3 Since you know where you want it to start, just start writing a bit and see what your characters do on their own.

I started a story exactly like this; I had characters that were extremely well-developed in my head (personalities, pasts, planned connections to each other), a whole world for them to live in, a bit of motivation and a history of what had happened in the four years prior to my story. Plus a bit of an ending, but the stuff that will happen in the end is more thought out now.

I wasn't sure what I was doing when I started, but I was able to keep writing somehow because the ideas just came to me. It was like the characters already knew where they had to go next, and they somehow told me through my hands on the keyboard. Now, I've reached the point in the story where my main character has made a very life-changing decision, and that was something I hadn't even planned from the beginning. (It wasn't even what I was considering initially... but her personality worked with it~)

So... yeah, just try getting started and see if that works for you. <3

[Legendary Mashine]

Get "No Plot? No Problem!" by Chris Baty.

Even if you do have a plot, it's still helpful, because it teaches you how to get past writer's block. I was trying to write something for years and then I found it and now my novel-in-progress is 44 pages of single-spaced tiny font. :3

[Manpersonguything]

Try working backwards. Ending to start. That helps me.

[Sam]

I always think of great fantasies when Im bored, (its quite easy when you make movies) and yes, the middle part is always the hard part...but I am not saying I am a writer, because I feel embarrased to tell my fantasies to a public audiance. I feel that I am not writing material, more movie material

Tell us the story and maybe we can help you?

[Frozenwinters]

[LudwigVonKoopa]

We can help. I`m on your side, Popple. Make it a rural town, perhaps? I do not know. Have you thought of the villan yet? I think it`s easier when you know WHO is in it.

[Grandosco]

It's interesting. I have almost the same problem. I think I was on book...2...3 maybe...when I created how the story would end. But yeah, the middle is hard. Times like that, I just try to make an event that will fit with the characters and is interesting at the same time. I usually get the best ideas at night...just when I'm falling asleep :/ But they're still good. Actually, early on, I got most of my inspiration from reading another interesting book (I was N-O-T plagarising of course, but it helped a ton with the mood)

Anyway, yeah, try some things out, and if it doesn't fit, change it. As an author, you have the power!!!!

[Joshamuffin]