Young Writers Society

If you're stuck at a certain point in your story and just can't seem to get any further--or maybe that only happens to me--you could try switching stories with someone for a while. This will give you a chance to think about something else and hopefully loosen up your creativity a bit, as well as see where someone else might go with your story. Their writing may inspire you and open up your eyes to new possibilities.

The general idea is to have two people swap stories for a certain amount of time--however long you choose--and, at the deadline, give them whatever you managed to get on paper by then, no matter how incomplete. Since, by this time, your secrets have been revealed and your soul is bared, you are free to go back to that person for advice or another trade as many times as you wish whenever troubles arise again. You can find a new writing partner, sort of.

So here you can post the general outline, and if anyone is interested you can give more details through PM. Be as specific as you want: you can give them characters and personalities and settings and events and histories or just the general flow of the storyline. They don't have to follow all the rules if they feel the need to break away.

You can give them a piece to rewrite or continue from or both, or you can just dump the whole mess on them and say, 'Your problem now. Write.' (That'd be my strategy. )