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RE: Writer's Block o_O - Raccoon - 08-21-2013

Mine's more stubborn than that. I've got to actually throw it off guard by doing something else, like playing a time-waster game -- Burnout Paradise or something. Next thing I know, I'll be having ideas filtering through the cracks, then it's just a matter of not finishing that one quest or that one race before I jot it down lest I forget what it was. *nod*

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Dubs - 08-21-2013

You just need to shut the world out, barbwire your door handle, lock it and insert some soothing relaxing music to stir up the imagery.
Here I helpMoogle
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RE: Writer's Block o_O - LiadansWhisper - 08-21-2013

I think part of my problem is probably the giant holes I have in my knowledge of the game's lore.  Actually, now that I think about it, I'm going to go make another thread in the RP Discussion thread and ask questions.  I have so many, and I don't really know where to look.  :-\

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Qhora Bajihri - 08-21-2013

I was reading the official Lore forums from the oldest to the newest, gave me a really good idea of what people were questioning and what was pretty much known, but I only got about halfway through and they've been down since P4 for me. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/491-Lore

That and, well, there are huge gaps in the lore as it is.

Also, Loremonger, although it's mostly 1.0 stuff, that's kind of what we're looking at. I haven't yet, but I've been planning to go through the newspapers links there.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Guide:Loremonger
http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Newspapers

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Asyria - 08-21-2013

Music always works for me.
Just have to find the right track for what I want to write.
Sometimes I even get surprised and overwhelmed with new ideas and it's like the characters I'm writing about gets inspired by the music themselves and start doing stuff on their own in my head and I'm like "wait wait slow down I gotta type all of this you know!"

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Roda - 08-21-2013

Whenever I can't think of how to put what I see into words, I usually try to put what I see in pictures.
Draw. 
I draw when I can't write.
Maybe it might help you to draw too.
(Or take screenshots, but we can't really do that right now.)

RE: Writer's Block o_O - LiadansWhisper - 08-21-2013

(08-21-2013, 05:55 PM)Roda Wrote: Whenever I can't think of how to put what I see into words, I usually try to put what I see in pictures.
Draw. 
I draw when I can't write.
Maybe it might help you to draw too.
(Or take screenshots, but we can't really do that right now.)

I can't draw.  D:  I can write (except when I can't), but my drawing is limited to stick figures and smiley faces!

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Doyle - 08-21-2013

Don't feel too bad, OP. I'm finding myself in a similar position. It's just days away from launch now and I still have little semblance of a background for my character.

There's some really good insights in this thread. In my case though, I don't really consider creative writing my strong point, so I'm hoping to just go with a general character idea and slowly build on that through RP while I learn more of the world and the people in it. Hopefully it works out.

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Averis - 08-21-2013

(08-21-2013, 10:30 PM)Doyle Wrote: Don't feel too bad, OP. I'm finding myself in a similar position. It's just days away from launch now and I still have little semblance of a background for my character.

There's some really good insights in this thread. In my case though, I don't really consider creative writing my strong point, so I'm hoping to just go with a general character idea and slowly build on that through RP while I learn more of the world and the people in it. Hopefully it works out.

This is something I've done too and I'm in a similar situation right now. As I was researching lore I discovered that some of my ideas won't work.

This close to launch I try to at least narrow down some personality traits and hope that she grow from there on her own. It's not like people need to know her background right away, if ever. Role-players that go around spouting off their character's history to anyone that will listen is usually a turn-off for most role-players. So don't stress about it too much. Sometimes letting it grow organically is better.

On the flip side, filling out every detail of a character can also cause you to freeze up in RP. "Did she like green or blue?" I can't remember!"

RE: Writer's Block o_O - AkhutaiAngura - 08-21-2013

>.> Normally, I just sit there untill something comes to me. 

Even if it's the wrong thing, type it out. Then keep going. Even if it's ALLLL wrong, that's fine. Just let the wrongness flow.

then when you feel like you're done, and you look at it, and you go 'EW, that's terrible." You try it again. 

The worst critic to ones work, is ones own self. In my opinion, the worst thing you can do is delete something before you're done. Finish it, and see what happened.

RE: Writer's Block o_O - Roda - 08-21-2013

(08-21-2013, 09:57 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:
(08-21-2013, 05:55 PM)Roda Wrote: Whenever I can't think of how to put what I see into words, I usually try to put what I see in pictures.
Draw. 
I draw when I can't write.
Maybe it might help you to draw too.
(Or take screenshots, but we can't really do that right now.)

I can't draw.  D:  I can write (except when I can't), but my drawing is limited to stick figures and smiley faces!
That's good enough!
Just enough to convey what you can't find the words for!