Okay. So I'm burying myself in stories, in novels. I think I've finally found my problem, and as much reading and research as I've done on writing (What is funner to do than read about writing when you have writers block?) I can't figure out how this works for me.
My only ever finished novel, The Letter, probably only got finished due to Nanowrimo. My current novel is, though I love it, failing. My novel-to-be idea looks lovely, but I feel the same fault that my current novel has in it. I'm scared. I know what my problem is: plot. The Letter survived this because it had a plot. That was what it was a basis of, plot. It had been a plot sitting in my head for two years, give or take here and there. Everything else I come up with is characters, perhaps a very loose plot idea, and not really anything else. I have a thin grip on where I am going but...nothing more.
It's upsetting! I want to write another novel that works. So, I think my fault is plotting. I can't find a way to make a story thick enough to be a novel, and for that matter, my plots are extremely weak.
In short: How on earth do I turn random thoughts about a story into a plot, subplot, back stories, and those magic things that are novels? I've read so much about it, but I still seem to be...stuck.
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