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Addressing the Writer’s Problem: “I love outlining but can’t seem to actually write!”
I have had several people that love storytelling tell me “I have so many outlines, but when it comes to actually writing them, I can’t seem to do it!” This is a dilemma for creatives who want to move onto the next stages of their projects and pump out some drafts.
Actual writing is very hard, but like any skill it can be built up and improved on. Here are some tips for turning your outlines into chapters!
- Give yourself a set time to let it sit
After you finished outlining your story the problem might not be that you can’t write it, but that not enough time has passed yet. When you’ve spent weeks or months thinking about one ideal and one ideal alone that can cause the ideas to be too close or immediate. They haven’t sat long enough.
Don’t touch the story for a few days, or a week at most. This will improve your motivation to tackle it once the time comes as well as make you more objective about quality by then.
The second important part of this is setting a hard limit on when you will START. If you keep waiting for when the inspiration hits you to actually write then you may never start writing. If you give yourself a specific number of days to let the story simmer then you have a starting line.
