honestly, this is the reason I have about a couple dozen projects all going on at the same time. you're not going to be able to keep interest in one thing over several months or an entire year - however long it usually takes you to finish something. So I always keep a few projects on the back burner. If I get bored of my MG, I work on my LitFic (which was supposed to be my nano, but I got bored with that, and started working on my MG again), or my mystery series, or one of my dozen-or-so world building projects. Just keep everything you write. You never know when you might become interested in one of them again.
Stop focusing so much on one piece or any of them. Sounds callous but in my experience, you really need to let your mind rest. If you're indeed writing every day for even hours, halt, stop and resist!
Working on a project and it can be anything, not just writing, so rigidely will eventually burn you out of energy, the will to complete the said task.
Leave your work for at the most, three days. If you can go longer, then let your mind rest for a full week, then start back up again. A full week would probably be best. You'll allow your imgination to recharge; new ideas might develop (so be sure to bring a notepad and pencil with you to jot down notes) and you'll hopefully be less inclined to stab everything in sight.
1. Write short stories. I can never get in two chapters, so I usually write shorter stories. There are a lot of things you get from shorter stories you don't get from novels as well.
2. Write all over the place stories. Switch settings, or characters at will. It allows you to make some cool things.
And finally:
3. Get help from someone else.
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I think if you get bored with the story, change it to make it more interesting to you. It might make it more interesting to the reader too. and the trick (From what I"ve learned from NaNo) is that you just have to keep going if you want to finish. Even if there are times you get bored. You fell in love with the story in the beginning when it was all new and exciting, but once you get into it, it becomes just humdrum and boring. You just have to keep going, and there will be parts that you love just as much as the origional idea. Good luck, I hope I helped!
Throw in something very, very spontaneous- like, the MC does something totally out of their comfort zone, like dancing naked in the middle of Times Square, or something like that. Just keep going no matter what- there will be hard times when you're writing a novel, and you'll have to get through them just like everybody else. But I bet you can.
I think more than enough people have had their share of sparkly ideas that just turned out to be a dull stone. I know you can sit down and keep pushing on. Look up prompts- I bought a book called Naming the World by a guy named Anthony Brett [I think]. It's got tons of advice from a lot of famous authors.
I think it was Ernest Hemingway that would make a habit of really sitting down and getting into the story- then stop at the good point. That way, the next day when he sat down to write he had somewhere to start. Try that.
"Video games don't affect kids. If Pacman had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music." --anonymous/banner.
Never think that the idea is silly. Not for one moment. If you don't believe in the fiction, neither will the audience. "Yes, Cinderella, you can go to the ball. You can go to the moon, if you want," said one book I read. The italics are mine: the point is if you truly want to make your story happen, it can and it will. Stories can resolve themselves because like people, they will act under pressure. Relax and go where the narrative takes you! Save the editing for later.
And use writing prompts.
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner.
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