Writing Need help with a writer block

[Zenomew]

Hello everyone

I’m currently facing a writer’s block that I can’t seem to shake off, and I’m hoping to get some advice or tips

Basically the plot idea was an orphan girl who discovers she can use time-manipulation abilities. After inheriting her grandfather's house, she begins a furniture business sourcing second-hand items, creating time copies of them, and selling them eventually she tries to do the same with gold but gets kidnapped by a criminal gang but escapes into the past and changes it

This leds to her being hunted by a secret global/government organisation

Unfortunately the story ended up deviating from the plot and making it challenging for me to keep moving the plot forward

Here is the link to my story

Tenkan book 1 The Twins of Time

If you had all the time in the world Do you still want to live a normal life? Do you feel like since I have superpowers I don't need to work and do other boring stuff like homework I would suggest dropping this story and pretend that you never saw...

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[Corty]

My honest advice is to let the plot marinate a little. Announce a pause, and step away from it for a few days or a week. Don't try to force it or think about it, and return with a fresh mind. It could help a lot.

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Time to write other characters, and made a non-related short story about them so that you could have better grasp on how their personality would go and a guideline on how they interact with our character in main story.

 

[LoneQuack]

What was it that made you change trajectory from the original plot in the first place? Why did it happen? Where does it lead? You can't continue writing if you yourself don't know the story you are writing.

 

[Zenomew]

What was it that made you change trajectory from the original plot in the first place? Why did it happen? Where does it lead? You can't continue writing if you yourself don't know the story you are writing.

One I included a past version of the MC living with the future version

Two I accidentally made them both into overpowered (atleast 5-Dimensional beings) that ended up breaking the original plot idea since most villains are normal humans

Three I gave them terrible personality not fit for the paragon hero archetype I was aiming

 

[LoneQuack]

One I included a past version of the MC living with the future version

Two I accidentally made them both into overpowered (atleast 5-Dimensional beings) that ended up breaking the original plot idea since most villains are normal humans

Three I gave them terrible personality not fit for the paragon hero archetype I was aiming

...You don't get it (and its borderline scary how many people don't, but alas). The point isn't to give me a superficial answers. This and this and this.... No. These aren't the answers I am looking for. They are yours.

The point is to pinpoint exactly what the problem is and deal with it. I gave you the simplest questions for a starter to get the grip. From this point onward, you delve deeper into the specifics. I don't know your story, and I'm not inside your mind to know what you need and/or are looking for.

Why did you include the past version of the MC? What are the implications of something like this happening and what does it achieve?

The same way you turned them op you can restrict them. You have the power. (Btw time travel or time related stuff isn't considered 5D nor possessing an ability of higher dimension turn the person the same dimensionality.) How did they get these powers? What drawbacks do they have? More often than not, what's exciting isn't what the powers can do, but what they don't. To have your characters in situations where they can't solve with what they are accustomed to and/or are vulnerable. To give a simple example you have a character that uses flames but needs water to solve the situation. What are they gonna do?

What type of story are you aiming for if your character is op while not having strong antagonistic forces?

Questions, questions questions. And then even more questions! And don't answer me. First think. Hard. Then answer yourself, and then answer the questions that come from the previous answers.

 

[Zenomew]

...You don't get it (and its borderline scary how many people don't, but alas). The point isn't to give me a superficial answers. This and this and this.... No. There aren't the answers I am looking for. They are yours.

The point is to pinpoint exactly what the problem is and deal with it. I gave you the simplest questions for a starter to get the grip. From this point onward, you delve deeper into the specifics. I don't know your story, and I'm not inside your mind to know what you need and/or are looking for.

Why did you include the past version of the MC? What are the implications of something like this happening and what does it achieve?

The same way you turned them op you can restrict them. You have the power. (Btw time travel or time related stuff isn't considered 5D nor possessing an ability of higher dimension turn the person the same dimensionality.) How did they get these powers? What drawbacks do they have? More often than not, what's exciting isn't what the powers can do, but what they don't. To have your characters in situations where they can't solve with what they are accustomed to and/or are vulnerable. To give a simple example you have a character that uses flames but needs water to solve the situation. What are they gonna do?

What type of story are you aiming for if your character is op while not having strong antagonistic forces?

Questions, questions questions. And then even more questions! And don't answer me. First think. Hard. Then answer yourself, and then answer the questions that come from the previous answers.

The point is that they are at some point in the story the two versions of the MC supposed to be separated in different time periods and need to find the way back to their own time period but I made them so overpowered that they can easily return to the morden era with no problem
I can't just depower them for the sake of plot

 

[CharlesEBrown]

The point is that they are at some point in the story the two versions of the MC supposed to be separated in different time periods and need to find the way back to their own time period but I made them so overpowered that they can easily return to the morden era with no problem
I can't just depower them for the sake of plot

Maybe their powers wane the closer the two versions get, only returning to full power once they recombine, making both versions reluctant to try?

 

[TheIcMan]

Two I accidentally made them both into overpowered (atleast 5-Dimensional beings) that ended up breaking the original plot idea since most villains are normal humans

Don't take this as an attack on you, but when I read this, I just can't help but see Greg Onision's writing lmao.

The point is that they are at some point in the story the two versions of the MC supposed to be separated in different time periods and need to find the way back to their own time period but I made them so overpowered that they can easily return to the morden era with no problem
I can't just depower them for the sake of plot

Yes you can. And you should. Because there isn't any plot if, as you say, they can solve it easily. If you've already deviated from your original plot 6 chapters in, it sounds like you need to do some outlining.