My fellow members of Writewords, Thanks for replying to my introduction.

emmaD, A very succinct point. It's very easy to get stuck in a loop if your creativity starts to flag. Before I even begin to write the story, I write a synopsis, then if I get stuck with the plot I will refer to that. As I tend to write in bursts I think that a synopsis is essential to keeping the story on track. I can then change the synopsis if I think the outline of the plot is not running right.

If I find I am writing in circles, then I will stop and do something else until my inspiration returns or if I work out a solution to a problem then I refer to the synopsis to check it's validity, then I read what I have written previously, then I start writing again.

It's all good clean fun!

Paul Hannaby

Hi Paul, you may find it easier just to hit the 'reply' button on your original thread rather than start a new one.

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oops, I see you did.

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I'll just pop a link in back to the original thread:

http://www.writewords.org.uk/forum/108_310068.asp