Have you ever had a story in your head?

thats a common problem with people in my situation, college students. a story, or a paper, same difference, its always harder to start than to finish. i found it easiest to just think about what you want to write and then just write. it wont be perfect the first time, but people have always told me that revision is the most important step in the writing process.

I am notorious for getting story ideas, starting to write them and then stopping before they are finished. Once I stop, if it isn't a finished product, I have ahard time going back to it, so, my stories end up deleted. My goal is to master it one day and actually write a book!

Don't know if this will help or not, but I thought I'd add in my thoughts. I write a lot, so much over the years that I have notebooks, and notebooks, full of stories. One of the things that I find helpful is to sit down and write it out just like you were talking to a friend and telling them about something that happened. When we're talking with a friend, we don't censor ourselves, and we just talk and let it flow. Same when crafting a story, in a way. Another thing I do sometimes is to tape record myself talking like I would to a friend. Sometimes I think the harder we try to get the words out, the harder the process of writing seems. One thing nice about doing it this way is that the story comes out, and it can get cleaned up and more coherent later. Another thing that might help is to write the thought for the story down. Just a rough idea of your thoughts on the story you want to write. Then when you get that down, write a timeline with the beginning of the story idea at one end, and your expected ending idea at the end. Then fill in the timeline with your course of events you want to have happen in the order they would come in. This gives you a sequence of what's going to happen to eventually reach the end of the story. Good luck with your writing!

This is another really good discussion baby,and this is also a very interesting topic because and it seems like a topic not a lot of people would cover because I am sure not a lot of people would think about it,and I am sure that different people have different opinions when it comes to stories and having a story in their head I am sure that some people can have a story in their head and then easily and instantly put it into writing,and then I am sure there are people who will have a story in their head for a long time,because they do not know how to put it into writing,and I can understand both sides,and I am not sure you could say I have a story in my head,but there are times I have thought about ideas of things that might sound good in a story,even though I would not even know where to start when it comes to writing or knowing what to write,unlike our friend who has a series of books in his head for over seven years,and he is not having a whole lot of trouble putting it on paper,and he likes having us read it as he write it,I love you with all my heart and soul,have a great day,good luck with all your mylotting goals,and Happy Posting.

yep i have definetly had stories in my head, that, when i sit down and try to write it out, would never turn out the way i wanted it to XD i really dislike that, because it seems like its such a good story, but its so hard to put it into words~