There is an opposite of 'writers block', I call it 'Writers tangent'.

Be wary of overdeveloping a characters story. You want to enrich your characters (especially supporting characters) and you get flooded with a dozen small plot lines. You start working on one of them and the idea develops more and more. Before you know it, this character has so much back story that it overshadows the main book, or makes your book 1000 pages long before you're even half way through.

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Don't worry about people will think. Write what you want, not what you think others will want!

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Deutschland Mädchen

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Don't be scared of skipping ahead! You don't have to write the whole book in order. You can always go back and edit. If you have writers block, move to another part of the story that you want to write more. Writing a book should be enjoyable, not stressful/boring.

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-logansucrose- (he/him)

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A lot of the times I write parts over and over again without thinking. Then after I'm done, I Frankenstein monster them together, taking parts of what I want and taking out what I don't. This helps for when I can't think of how to word things.

Feel free to take breaks and think. There's no "time limit" for writing, if something doesn't feel write, just write it again!

Also, fiction is where you can just let your imagination soar. I really can't stretch this enough, you can always go back and change things! I do that literally all the time, and 80% of the time, I like the second version better than the first.
(I'm tired so if this is weird I'm sorry)

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