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I am a writer of sorts, and love writing.

I haves tons of ideas, but they are stuck. I can access them. I can’t get them onto paper. I can’t even brainstorm. Anyone know of any way i can get into them, or, failing that, have any ideas for stories?

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (10 minutes after post)

Every author deals with this in the beginning. It’s called “Pulling Teeth to Get Started.”

Don’t worry about writing it down, or brainstorming. Just sit here for a minute, and discuss your ideas. They don’t have to be in order, or even make sense. Just put them down in a reply, and I’ll help you work through some of them. Even if you think it’s a terrible idea, just jot it down anyway. Some of my best stories have come from terrible ideas.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (16 minutes after post)

Think simple!

Who is your main character?
What makes him different from the rest?

What does your character want!?
Who or what oposes him!?
How much does he work for he does?

Remember, a character is it’s actions. words are not believed unless substained by actions.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (24 minutes after post)

Well, the first idea i have is for a combination of horror and mystery with a splash of romance.
A man, who is a journalist, is sent to a house, which is on an island / peninsula. The house is owned by a former physiatrist who claims he wants to conduct one last experiment before he dies. The experiment is set over a week, but the subjects cant know what’s going on as it will spoil the results. Curtis, the hero, isn’t a subject but is sent to cover the story.
As a side note, he can’t remember much from before his 30th birthday. Some sort of trauma. He just woke up in a hospital one day. This will be more relevant in a minute, bare with me.
For the first day or two, all is well- then a murder. The group splits up to check the house and make sure no one else is in the house, but they find no way of getting in or out, and no one else. They also find that the doors and windows are all locked. The glass is also security glass reinforced with steel mesh, so there’s no way in or out. The murderer is one of them.
Over the course of about half the book, Curtis is trying to figure out who the murderer is, as more murders take place.
It will turn out there is more than one murderer.
There is also a woman, he becomes intimate with. – this is another problem point for me. I’m not good at writing romance, but it’s important to the story, as it is her ghost which helps him.
There is also a mysterious man, who on Curtis’s side, helping him as much as possible.
All the while there is supernatural stuff going on. As it turns out, the physiatrist in question is also a member of a cult and is obsessed with defeating death and living forever as a ghost. He has used all his knowledge to build the house to be as ghost making as possible.
In the final scene, Curtis / the odd man and Sarah, the love interest confronts and fight the ghosts of the evil doctor and his staff.

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (1 hour after post)

Okay. My first thoughts are these, and if you are interested, take them to heart.

First, classify it as one genre. Make it a Mystery. Limit the horror aspect, because creepy is always more suspenseful than just yucky murder and death everywhere. And romance is easy to write. You just have to throw in little hints every once in a while. Innuendo is the most powerful way to write romance, because it leaves a lot to the imagination. And people can be VERY dirty minded.

Also, you might want to change the profession of the lead character. “Journalist” is kinda odd, because newspapers are fading away as a form of media. He’d have to be a web-journalist, or a TV Journalist. If you don’t have your heart set on Journalism as a profession, you might consider making him a professor at a college (if he’s an older gentleman) or if it’s a younger man, make him a student doing an honors project over the summer, or a graduate student working on a Ph.D. for Psychology, doing a study on this Psychiatrist’s “Life’s Work.” Something like that. Academic people are usually much more interested in psychological experiments than journalists (unless he works for the National Inquirer). Fringe Science, ghosts, things like that, they make more of a dramatic impact on characters that are educated, and KNOW that there’s no such thing as ghosts.

I love the flow of the plot, where you have a murder, some “searching for exits” time where people are confused. You might want to make them pair off using the Buddy System, and that’s how your protagonist and the leading lady first get to know each other.

As optional suggestions, you might want to make the first body they find a “random” body. As in, he’s not part of the core group of characters. And you could make it so that later on, this dead guy that they found is the “mysterious” person helping out the heroes. Kinda like a powerful ghost that is protecting them from the evil doctor.

Okay.  My first thoughts are these, and if you are interested, take them to heart.

First, classify it as one genre.  Make it a Mystery.  Limit the horror aspect, because creepy is always more suspenseful than just yucky murder and death everywhere.  And romance is easy to write.  You just have to throw in little hints every once in a while.  Innuendo is the most powerful way to write romance, because it leaves a lot to the imagination.  And people can be VERY dirty minded.

Also, you might want to change the profession of the lead character.  “Journalist” is kinda odd, because newspapers are fading away as a form of media.  He’d have to be a web-journalist, or a TV Journalist.  If you don’t have your heart set on Journalism as a profession, you might consider making him a professor at a college (if he’s an older gentleman) or if it’s a younger man, make him a student doing an honors project over the summer, or a graduate student working on a Ph.D. for Psychology, doing a study on this Psychiatrist’s “Life’s Work.”  Something like that.  Academic people are usually much more interested in psychological experiments than journalists (unless he works for the National Inquirer).  Fringe Science, ghosts, things like that, they make more of a dramatic impact on characters that are educated, and KNOW that there’s no such thing as ghosts.

I love the flow of the plot, where you have a murder, some “searching for exits” time where people are confused.  You might want to make them pair off using the Buddy System, and that’s how your protagonist and the leading lady first get to know each other.

As optional suggestions, you might want to make the first body they find a “random” body.  As in, he’s not part of the core group of characters.  And you could make it so that later on, this dead guy that they found is the “mysterious” person helping out the heroes.  Kinda like a powerful ghost that is protecting them from the evil doctor.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 5 months ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

wow! It’s really mixed up! hmmm… If you wan’t to build a romance, a romance starts with the desire to be together that is not granted (at least, that is how we work it on drama). Almost through the end they should have a chance to almost be together… about the rest, I looks like you are doing it great. Just remember, your character must know what he wants, and fight for it. It’s the effort of fighting that we admire and makes us care about what happends to the main character.

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