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Nightmaren 05-04-2013 03:24 PM

What storyline?
 
My main issue, and a rather bad one, is that I cannot hold storylines. My mind wanders too far off, even if I plan out a story and write brief summaries about the chapters. It was mandatory to take a simple writing class in my school, but we were given topics and just made our own characters.
I was wondering if there are good outlines that help, or if my overly wandering mind simply isn't cut out for writing, and should stick to drawing.
I can draw and write captions to my drawings that depict a story, but not a story to depict my drawings. Making various characters and worlds isn't an issue for me. But the storyline drifts, lags, or goes far too fast. I hardly go far into one before realizing that.

xuvrette 05-04-2013 03:26 PM

Sounds like you lack of focus...
Do you have a objectives or goal of some sort for the story?

Nightmaren 05-04-2013 03:32 PM

Yeah, I have ADD and my brother has ADHD.
I always set out a main goal, and then sometimes smaller goals first, but still my mind always drifts and they end up doing things they didn't need to. I always daydream, so my mind drifts and so does my pen.

xuvrette 05-04-2013 03:41 PM

Excuse me, What is ADD and... ADHD? x.x

Have you try the Snow Flake method?

Nightmaren 05-04-2013 03:45 PM

Attention Deficit Disorder and the ADHD is ADD with Hyper Activity. Very low focus.
And now my turn for a question, what is that method? I don't think I've used it, unless a writing teacher employed it without me knowing.

xuvrette 05-04-2013 04:33 PM

I see...

From what I understand about this Snowflake method, it is a growing strategy.
Say. You start with a sentence.
Then you slowly develop it by adding more details into it.
How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method
Here is a link, they should explain better than I do.

Nightmaren 05-04-2013 04:48 PM

Oh, I rather like that setup. I'll try it, and if it doesn't work, I suppose I'll post here again.
Thank you very much for giving me this way of trying to get my story set up.

xuvrette 05-04-2013 05:26 PM

Just pick up the ones that seem to work for you, don't feel that you have to follow strictly all the steps he had done.
A method could be break down into smaller parts, take what suits you.

Good luck~
Hoping you would share some of your story.


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