TheokinsJ
Troubadour
The question is simple enough, but I'm having a hard time answering it myself. I've spent the last few months planning a novel, and it seems as if the first two hundred or so pages are so clear in my mind, the plot, the characters and the setting. However beyond the last event, there is nothingness... I have brainstormed ideas and tried to find out what the next stage in the character's journey is, I have vague ideas but nothing set in stone, and most of the ideas are childish and cliché. The story is in my head, I've just got to find a way to get it out.
Anyway, I've been writing the first few chapters and hoping to see where I go, however I am increasingly aware that trying to plan the next stages of my story usually end up with me giving up or put me off writing. I kind of know the end, again, very vaguely. Do other people literally write and see where they go? Or is it good to have at least some idea of where you are headed, no matter how vague or unclear?
Anyway, I've been writing the first few chapters and hoping to see where I go, however I am increasingly aware that trying to plan the next stages of my story usually end up with me giving up or put me off writing. I kind of know the end, again, very vaguely. Do other people literally write and see where they go? Or is it good to have at least some idea of where you are headed, no matter how vague or unclear?
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