Am I the only one doing this?

[Katako]

Once I feel lazy to write a normal or "boring" chapter where nothing really happens, I'm just trying to imagine on how good the future upcoming chapter will be (on my perspective, yeah). So I got pumped up and keep writing all the chapter up to that point.
It's kind of pathetic but that's how I keep writing when laziness slaps me in face. I'm wondering on how other people would motivate themself to write a continuation.

 

[Cipiteca396]

It's better than what I do. Which is nothing.

 

[LilRora]

I sometimes do something similar. Like imagining where I want to take the story and getting discouraged by how much I still have to write, then getting to work because of that exact same reason.

 

[Rhaps]

I don't call those chapters boring, I call them slice of life chapters! I use those for side character building or world building, since there needs to be some time off from the main story, why not build more around the cast beside the MC?

 

[ArchlordZero]

I just usually shower my normal/slice of life chapters with jokes and funny dialogues I got from other media, disregarding how sexist/racist/political the joke may be.

 

[proxybaba]

some days I write more than ten 10k words and on some, I can barely write 1. the same situation as yours. so i also do these things

 

[Deleted member 54065]

Once I feel lazy to write a normal or "boring" chapter where nothing really happens, I'm just trying to imagine on how good the future upcoming chapter will be (on my perspective, yeah). So I got pumped up and keep writing all the chapter up to that point.
It's kind of pathetic but that's how I keep writing when laziness slaps me in face. I'm wondering on how other people would motivate themself to write a continuation.

Already planned my story before, so all I have to do, is fill in the details. Also, I allot about three to four weeks time to complete an entire manuscript, then take a break for one to two months so I won't get burned out.

My main work has 15 volumes up now, keeping with this work routine. And I just finished the 16th, waiting for edits.

And I don't put 'boring' chapters for the sake of it. As I plan every part has a reason why it has to appear; I call it 'build-up' that leads to the exciting parts of the narrative.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

It's not lazy as long as you drop in a phrase or something that comes up again later.

 

[greyblob]

don't write boring chapters. make everything interesting (to you).

 

[Katako]

don't write boring chapters. make everything interesting (to you).

It's more like there isn't much happening at that one chapter. A break for the reader after a huge part of the story or a build up chapter.
Like Rhaps said.

I don't call those chapters boring, I call them slice of life chapters!

Or like Hans said.

And I don't put 'boring' chapters for the sake of it. As I plan every part has a reason why it has to appear; I call it 'build-up' that leads to the exciting parts of the narrative.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

It's more like there isn't much happening at that one chapter. A break for the reader after a huge part of the story or a build up chapter.
Like Rhaps said.

Or like Hans said.

Well, these are my techniques whenever I write:

1) Whenever I write a volume where the most exciting part is at the end, I'd always do these 'little chapters' where I would start with 'relaxing ones', then slowly increasing in tension as it led to the climax (the exciting part), then write in the falling tension, so as to prepare for the next volume.

2) If the volume I'm working on has several exciting parts, I divide those into 'sub-arcs', with the usual climactic 'ending', and a break chapter/epilogue that led to the next sub-arc or volume.

3) There was this time that I ended a volume on a 'high note', meaning I cut it off on the most exciting part (Volume 14) then time-skipped to six years (Volume 15). For that, I started the newer volume with 'slow chapters' that gradually increased in tension as it reached the ending, similar to the first technique I did.

On the planning table, I always 'rationalize' the scenes I put in, even the most seemingly 'random' stuff. Trying to follow the 'Chekhov gun' principle, where if I put in a scene somewhere in the story, it's use would come out later in the story.

 

[ManwX]

I write because its fun honestly. As long as this hobby persistent ill do it. No butts or iffs in me mind.

 

[Notadate]

Sorta. I don’t make boring chapters

 

[Katako]

Sorta. I don’t make boring chapters

Man, I really messed up the word there.

 

[RainHarlow]

I'm always writing up to a desired major event, definitely. I've even pre-written some in super rough draft phase, to remember important intricacies. It's extra nasty when some big major points are still boiling in the pot after 100k words. I just repeat things like 'slow brew' in my head to console myself hehe. The 'in-between' stuff can be extra challenging, definitely.