Young Writers Society

(Not sure where to put this; please move if needs be.)

As you may be aware, I started writing a play called "Tabula Rasa" (now called "Submission"); I've stopped continuing due to exams and hope to start up again during the summer. I have a rough idea of where I want to take it but some people have commented that it reads well, but the revelations need to come at a much slower pace. Please could you contribute ideas on where to take the story next and how to flesh it out a bit more?

Thanks,

Gahks

So you need writing tips? Or a crit?

*Poke*

Shouldn't this be in Writer's Corner?

Also, as I haven't read your story, I have no idea. Maybe try these:

- Put it away and work on something else. After a while, you may find you're full of ideas once more.

- Watch people. I always get plenty of ideas from people-watching.

- Read. You can take ideas and meld them into your story. (No plagiarizing, obviously.)

- Make an outline. Then you won't get stuck again!

- Just write. Put away the last page/few paragraphs, and rewrite them a new way to get yourself going. Then keep writing. Maybe set a timer, and push out all the words, not stopping for 15, maybe 30 minutes?

- Write in different character's POVs. You may find a whole new sub-plot to follow. After all, the characters all have complex histories - we just don't have to learn them all. But maybe you could tie some in to the main story?

- Sub-plots work well to flesh out a story. You can't have one main idea - that gets boring. The focus is always on that one idea.

- Another fleshing out idea: take a paragraph and expand. Once I started with a two paragraph story. I turned on Track Changes in Word, and pretty much deleted everything and added more. I didn't stop until everything was red. That story is now about five pages, and much better.

I have no idea if that helped, but I hope it did!

~JFW1415

Yes. ^_^ I will move this to writing corner.