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Writers... help! I can't finish the story!

Posted on 08/17/2006 8:36:45 PM PDT by Number57

I've had this story worked out in my mind for going on twenty years. 1989. But now... I am stuck. I started a book based on it, but I'm no writer, obviously. I constantly re-read and edit, and re-read and edit more.

Probably because I've posted part of the story on sites that critique writing.

Anyway. I've hit a wall. A large brick wall. I've since stopped editing my own stuff, but try as I might, I can't write another chapter that I'm okay with. How do you, in your experience, get past it? I'll appreciate any help anyone can offer.


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KEYWORDS: attentionwhore; darkstormynight; dickandjane; newsactivism; pimp; seespotrun; stayinschool; stupidvanity; whoflippincares; writersblock; wtf
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To: nopardons

Wee Kudo?

lmfao


301 posted on 08/18/2006 1:31:16 AM PDT by Number57 ("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" Joe Young)
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To: Number57
YES, bandwidth.....all wasted! Have you even ever bothered to donate to FR?

Do you think that it's cheap to run this site?

302 posted on 08/18/2006 1:32:06 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Number57

Go look up the words you don't know the meanings of.


303 posted on 08/18/2006 1:32:56 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Vn3xhqC2w

Terrorists are the CRAZIEST peoples.


304 posted on 08/18/2006 1:34:23 AM PDT by Number57 ("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" Joe Young)
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To: nopardons

You're asking me what I donated.


305 posted on 08/18/2006 1:36:29 AM PDT by Number57 ("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" Joe Young)
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To: nopardons

Bite me. k?


306 posted on 08/18/2006 1:41:00 AM PDT by Number57 ("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" Joe Young)
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To: Number57
No! I asked you IF you had donated.
307 posted on 08/18/2006 1:49:36 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Number57; nopardons

Wow, this is like a regular literary salon or something...

"So then I says to Stein, I says, Gertie you fat ole broad, you know I did Alice over at Ezra's last birthday party. And the fat ole broad broke my nose, Christ she can punch..." -- E. Hemingway


308 posted on 08/18/2006 1:50:05 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: nopardons
Meanings of.
309 posted on 08/18/2006 1:50:16 AM PDT by Number57 ("Don't quote Dickens in my apartment!" Joe Young)
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To: durasell

Oh hush up and have another brownie. ;^)


310 posted on 08/18/2006 1:52:45 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Number57

Your home movies; pet?


311 posted on 08/18/2006 1:53:48 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

lol!!! I just love when people here post their personal problems!


312 posted on 08/18/2006 1:55:28 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: Number57

LOONEY TUNES are better; precious.


313 posted on 08/18/2006 1:55:30 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Those folks were clearly out of their minds. We won't see there irk again. The old timers still tell stories about Pollock, de Kooning & Co. from the glory days. Also out of their minds...


314 posted on 08/18/2006 1:56:43 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

there = their


315 posted on 08/18/2006 1:57:13 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: bonfire

LOL..especially when they are newbies and post them to NEWS, for all the world to see and laugh at. hehehehehehehehehehe


316 posted on 08/18/2006 1:57:52 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Number57

Here's some good, non-confrontational advice on the arts from the belly of the beast. Writers write. Painters paint. And photographers photograph. About the only time they actually talk about their work is to get laid.


317 posted on 08/18/2006 2:01:43 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell
Yes, yes, and yes! LOL

But I prefer the Bloomsbury bunch. Where else would you find an absolutely HIDEOUS female being lionized and worshiped and drooled over by not only heterosexual men, but homosexual ones as well? Ottoline was even uglier than Wallace Simpson; for goodness sakes.

318 posted on 08/18/2006 2:02:01 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Weird hybrids. Not to my liking. The only one with any commonsense was Keynes, and he was a gay guy who married a ballerina.


319 posted on 08/18/2006 2:04:11 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: durasell

They were a strange group....a VERY strange group, but not nearly as weird as the Fabians.


320 posted on 08/18/2006 2:10:05 AM PDT by nopardons
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