When you're not actively working on your next chapter...

[DevilPogoStick]

Do you get into the habit of writing random short scenes involving your characters just for the sake of it? Like it frankly doesn't add to the main story itself but it's still something?

I admit I got a bit of writer's block...Or just being stupidly busy (retail in 2020 is hell, enough said) that I'm at a snail's pace with most of my actual content. So outside of making notes of backstory enough to fill a notebook or two, I sometimes write really silly yet canonical scenes of my characters doing...Stuff. Since my characters are honestly a bunch of second year high school students prone to do whatever, this surprisingly gets me a load of random scenarios to do.

...I must be the only one silly enough to do this but got curious if people do this.

Thoughts?

 

[BenJepheneT]

This little shit in my phone.

The bane of my writing career.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

I once fell through the rabbithole of VTubers through Kurone but since i can't understand her, i basically just move on...

Once i notice there was an English VTuber, i never came back from the hole and basically almost ended my writing career(I still write but its only on when i'm really bored).

 

[LotsChrono]

Do you get into the habit of writing random short scenes involving your characters just for the sake of it? Like it frankly doesn't add to the main story itself but it's still something?

I admit I got a bit of writer's block...Or just being stupidly busy (retail in 2020 is hell, enough said) that I'm at a snail's pace with most of my actual content. So outside of making notes of backstory enough to fill a notebook or two, I sometimes write really silly yet canonical scenes of my characters doing...Stuff. Since my characters are honestly a bunch of second year high school students prone to do whatever, this surprisingly gets me a load of random scenarios to do.

...I must be the only one silly enough to do this but got curious if people do this.

Thoughts?

When I’m not actively working on my next chapter. . .I’m working on the next chapter of another story pft

I’m pretty much always writing something. Another story. A short story. Story ideas. An actual book I wanna publish some day.

Now, if I’m not writing at all, I’m reading with music in my ears.

I do sometimes write scenes with my characters as well, though, I’ll say that. But it’s a rare thing. And those scenes usually end up in the book so I don’t know if they even count as down time.

 

[OkuraTsukiko]

Do you get into the habit of writing random short scenes involving your characters just for the sake of it? Like it frankly doesn't add to the main story itself but it's still something?

I admit I got a bit of writer's block...Or just being stupidly busy (retail in 2020 is hell, enough said) that I'm at a snail's pace with most of my actual content. So outside of making notes of backstory enough to fill a notebook or two, I sometimes write really silly yet canonical scenes of my characters doing...Stuff. Since my characters are honestly a bunch of second year high school students prone to do whatever, this surprisingly gets me a load of random scenarios to do.

...I must be the only one silly enough to do this but got curious if people do this.

Thoughts?

Instead of writing random short scenes, replace them with sketches and drawings. It may or may not be added to the story itself but it's kind of like a canon thing. Even imagining what would they be like if they were put in a high school AU, that's the real deal. Like I did a whole inktober with almost all of my characters

Or in my free time, I would reenact dialogues that some of my characters would be having with each other to see if it works to be put into the story. Sometimes, those dialogues come to my mind almost instantly that I had to note them down. As well as developing their characters within myself to see from their point of view. Overall, it's a psychological interpersonal analysis of my characters.

But other things that I do when I get writer block is to be active on this forum or jamming to my daily playlist of music

 

[DevilPogoStick]

Fine responses. Maybe one day I'll build up an actual short story with these snippets of dialogue of mine but so far, it's just adding more to my characters.

...Like my character Nagase on occasion writes some very unusual fics in her spare time and shares them with her boyfriend for one.

"Wait, this is really the story?" Baku said in disbelief as Nagase explained her story. "Some dumbass NEET is trapped in an island with all these girls and...Not once does he have any sort of sexual attraction to them?"

Nagase shrugged. "...I dunno. I kinda thought people like those kind of novels?" She looked away, pouting. "I totally think it could make cheap bucks..."

Baku shrugged. "Well, slightly better than the smut between a dude and his girlfriend...That's also a car. Where do you get these ideas?"

"It just comes naturally!" Nagase protested.

 

[EternalSunset0]

Instead of writing random short scenes, replace them with sketches and drawings. It may or may not be added to the story itself but it's kind of like a canon thing. Even imagining what would they be like if they were put in a high school AU, that's the real deal. Like I did a whole inktober with almost all of my characters

I second this, mostly because I am trying to learn how to draw as well. When I'm not writing, I try to draw and sketch.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Not really. I do research on the things I need to know for my next chapters. Sometimes, I try reaching out to experts on the subject, and they get really offended, so . . . yeah. At least they're not saying, "You should take a trip to [insert place] to find out what it's really like," anymore because of Covid. That was never on the table for me in the first place because of finances.

 

[BenJepheneT]

I do research on the things I need to know for my next chapters.

Maybe I should try doing that as well.

So tell me, how does reptilian mammaries feel, in the biological off-chance they develop some.

 

[DreamOfRen]

I find that writing helps.
Which sounds counter productive, but writing other stories actually warms me up to creating content.

Also looking at movies. I can literally create new ideas all day just by being entertained by other mediums.

 

[Puji-Maki]

If I don't write, it's either I'm editing or playing wild rift. As for writing random scenes that were not connected to the main story, I'm doing it sometimes to increase my word count..... ??

 

[BenJepheneT]

I find that writing helps.
Which sounds counter productive, but writing other stories actually warms me up to creating content.

Also looking at movies. I can literally create new ideas all day just by being entertained by other mediums.

Same thing. I have a burner series where I write on-and-off whenever I feel burnt out on my main series.

 

[Farok]

Well, for my story, I have the advantage of it being a long journey, so any scene can potentially be included. But even then, sometimes I have an urge to write, like, RIGHT NOW, and it can be anything; for example, the story I'm writing right now is the result of one of those sessions of intense writing with no long-term goal in mind, a sort of improvisated story.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Maybe I should try doing that as well.

So tell me, how does reptilian mammaries feel, in the biological off-chance they develop some.

I am hoping marshmallow with cool to touch plates, like resting on a pillow that has those weird, small wooden tablets like coverings.

Am procrastinating and writing weird porn again, after multiple research, I find the need to correct my previous works with erect clits the size of chalks to the size of standard marker tips.

 

[placeintime]

When I fall into write writer's block, I have a third novel to write. Also sometimes I go online to other apps and roleplay to create new ideas from them.

 

[The_Long_Serpent]

Maybe I should try doing that as well.

So tell me, how does reptilian mammaries feel, in the biological off-chance they develop some.

Do they give milk? Do they squirt toxic fluid like a bombardier beetle? I'd imagine them to be a lot harder and firmer than mammalian mammaries due to being covered with scales.

 

[JayDirex]

When I'm not writing I am either:

1. Working
2. Tryna figure out why I'm not a successful, handsome, millionaire playboy. (I almost got it figured out, just need more time)