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Hm, you can try writing biographies for each of the characters (if you haven’t already.) Give them a full backstory, write about specific major events that happened in their pasts that made them the characters they are today. Figure out what their main motivation is in life. Just get more into the characters and flesh them out a bit and hopefully it will inspire and motivate you to continue with the story? :)

I hate it when that happens!!! It never comes out the same :/ but sometimes you can actually make it better. The biographies idea from Pepsi is a good idea. Just come at it from another angle. One-shots are a good way to get creativity flowing again. Good luck! Remember to have an account like Hotmail or a Livejournal account where you can privately post copies of your story. Never get chapters into anything without having a duplicate…. (I learned this the hard way as well)

What series is it for and what characters? I write fanfic too… :D

i sometimes lose designs i make if the computer crush and i was too much into the work that i forgot to save…
however, because i start from scratch, and i know better where it was supposed to be going, i don’t try to duplicate the same thing i remembered i did, i start my thinking from the point i was at and create a better result almost always.

writing is different, i agree, but try to let it flow a new, baring in mind the things you have learned about the characters while writing it earlier,
make it sharper, use what you already know to rewrite everything in a better way.
maybe even creating a different event than the characters was at previously, one that will reflect what you wanted to say in a better manner.

grbghp… great way to say it :D I agree. Changing the scenario and taking what you learned will probably work. You may just give yourself some time to dwell creatively on it and turn it into something perhaps that no one else has done yet (hard to do in fanfic, but). I like to take common scenarios in fanfic and twist them into something strange just to see how the characters react… haha.

like in final fantasy vii fics, anytime they are flashing back to pre-game times, there’s always a Shinra office party and Sephiroth is always in the corner, disinterested. Lol….

thats just the way it is…
hard o be original these days…
even when you are inventing something new, then someone probably have already done it,
or you have seen it somewhere and forgot that you did…

it didn’t, it just got incredibly intense.
and its getting harder and harder to stand out even if you do something creative…

lost you on that one…