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Ways to un-stick a stuck story

Do an outline, whatever way works best. Get yourself out of the word soup and know where the story is headed.

Conflicts and obstacles. Hurt the protagonist, put things in their way, this keeps the story interesting. An easy journey makes the story boring and boring is hard to write.

Change the POV. Sometimes all it takes to untangle a knotted story is to look at it through different eyes, be it through the sidekick, the antagonist, a minor character, whatever.

Know the characters. You can’t write a story if the characters are strangers to you. Know their likes, dislikes, fears, and most importantly, their motivation. This makes the path clearer.

Fill in holes. Writing doesn’t have to be linear; you can always go back and fill in plotholes, and add content and context.

Have flashbacks, hallucinations, dream sequences or foreshadowing events. These stir the story up, deviations from the expected course add a feeling of urgency and uncertainty to the narrative.

Introduce a new mystery. If there’s something that just doesn’t add up, a big question mark, the story becomes more compelling. Beware: this can also cause you to sink further into the mire.

Take something from your protagonist. A weapon, asset, ally or loved one. Force him to operate without it, it can reinvigorate a stale story.

Twists and betrayal. Maybe someone isn’t who they say they are or the protagonist is betrayed by someone he thought he could trust. This can shake the story up and get it rolling again.

Secrets. If someone has a deep, dark secret that they’re forced to lie about, it’s a good way to stir up some fresh conflict. New lies to cover up the old ones, the secret being revealed, and all the resulting chaos.

Kill someone. Make a character death that is productive to the plot, but not “just because”. If done well, it affects all the characters, stirs up the story and gets it moving.

Ill-advised character actions. Tension is created when a character we love does something we hate. Identify the thing the readers don’t want to happen, then engineer it so it happens worse than they imagined.

Create cliff-hangers. Keep the readers’ attention by putting the characters into new problems and make them wait for you to write your way out of it. This challenge can really bring out your creativity.

Raise the stakes. Make the consequences of failure worse, make the journey harder. Suddenly the protagonist’s goal is more than he expected, or he has to make an important choice.

Make the hero active. You can’t always wait for external influences on the characters, sometimes you have to make the hero take actions himself. Not necessarily to be successful, but active and complicit in the narrative.

Different threat levels. Make the conflicts on a physical level (“I’m about to be killed by a demon”), an emotional level (“But that demon was my true love”) and a philosophical level (“If I’m forced to kill my true love before they kill me, how can love ever succeed in the face of evil?”).

Figure out an ending. If you know where the story is going to end, it helps get the ball rolling towards that end, even if it’s not the same ending that you actually end up writing.

What if? What if the hero kills the antagonist now, gets captured, or goes insane? When you write down different questions like these, the answer to how to continue the story will present itself.

Start fresh or skip ahead. Delete the last five thousand words and try again. It’s terrifying at first, but frees you up for a fresh start to find a proper path. Or you can skip the part that’s putting you on edge – forget about that fidgety crap, you can do it later – and write the next scene. Whatever was in-between will come with time.

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Appreciation for the Society for giving us a soft jock trope who is not dumb or horny all the time, but smart, caring and also a sweetheart. Also, huge appreciation for giving people deaf and gay representation. Sam is a national treasure.

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i need season 2 right now🥺

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top10 the society characters as voted by the fandom→ #1. Gareth “Grizz” Visser

⤷ “We’re living in some sort of fucking black hole anti-universe! I really don’t think that the Miranda Warning is gonna come back to bite us in the ass!”

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DREAMER (#grizzam)

“You were mumbling in your sleep again.”

“What?”

“You were mumbling. In your sleep.”

“Oh. Sorry.”

“Who is Sam?”

Grizz had no idea what or who Rebecca was talking about. 

He didn’t know any Sam.

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- This AU is happening in Chicago, Grizz is in a relationship with a rising photographer and living a pretty gray life. Then a redhaired someone starts visiting him in his sleep.

- First chapter will be posted in a few days

written by grizzlicious aka Elisabeth Thorn (c)

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when grizz puts his hair up like that™

reblog if u agree

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Husband material right there

about grizz

- his first line was a compliment

- has read the bible/knows its passages

- knows hebrew

- “grizz knows what he’s doing”

- knew what to do when that girl got bit by a snake

- reached out and comforted elle when he saw her standing by herself

- likes theater and watches plays

- knows a lot of literature phrases by heart

- was a part of the prom committee

- made allie tea after she said she wanted some but ended up not making it cus she was too upset

- also wrote her a note with a phrase that he liked

- knows gardening and how to farm

- “if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”

- learned sign language by himself so he could talk to sam

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do you ever just

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I don’t want to be biased but Grizz left for five minutes and the whole town went to shit. tell me he is not important i’m-

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give me season 2 Grizz protecting Sam from Campbell or give me death

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Sam: I have an urge to do something stupid

Grizz: I’m stupid do me

Allie:

Becca:

Luke:

Helena:

Gordie:

Jason:

Clark:

Literally everyone else:

Grizz: did I say that out loud

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This is to diE for

grizz + his little bun

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When your favorite author of all times tothemoonmydear follows you, you're just like

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anxiety: OK BUT WHAT IF -

me: homie we went over this like 100 times yesterday and we totally resolved it

anxiety: yeah but i’ve looked at it from a new angle and there’s like 20 more reasons why u should be worried about it

me:

me: …..go on

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My biggest fear is that one day my kids will be crying alone to themselves at night and I wont know about it