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Writer's block help, when you already have a scene in progress · 11:21pm May 4th, 2015

Writer’s block help:

When you already have a scene in progress:
1. Who is your character?
2. What are they doing?
3. Why are they doing it?
4. If they couldn’t do this activity, what would they do that would yield similar results?
5. What are the different possible ways that this activity can go?
6. What would make your character do it uncharacteristically well?
7. Uncharacteristically poorly?
8. What would make them choose choices that aren’t usually considered normal for this character?
9. Who is around who can get in your character’s way?
10. Can get in your character’s way unwittingly?
11. How about deliberately?
12. Who is around who can help the character?
13. Can help consciously?
14. Can help unintentionally?
15. Take one key aspect out of the scene. What changes?
16. Add one key aspect from a previous scene or a planned scene. What changes?
17. What emotion does the character have?
18. With the same outside stimulus, what other emotions could the character have?
19. What biological, social, or emotional needs are being fulfilled by this scene?
20. What biological, social, or emotional needs are being frustrated in this scene?
21. What is learned about the world or characters in this scene?
22. What was learned in a previous scene that is being re-demonstrated here?
23. Add a deadline on whatever conflict your characters have in this scene. What happens?
24. Remove the time constraint. What happens?
25. Add a time constraint on the background characters around your main party. What happens?
26. What your characters spend time fantasizing about says something about their past and unfulfilled needs. What are those needs?
27. Are there any dangerous things in the environment that looks like nothing special?
28. One item the character commonly has goes missing or becomes unusable. What happens?
29. Something small and fortunate happens. How is this bad?
30. Something small and unlucky happens. How is this good?
31. This scene is a small part of a bigger theme, conflict, or bigger idea. What is the bigger picture?
32. The character gets a few less hours of sleep than normal. Does anything change?
33. The character is finally well rested. What happens?
34. What information does one character have that the others don’t?
35. What information do they all share?
36. Do they have inaccurate interpretations of this shared knowledge?
37. What needs to change for each character to view the info differently?
38. Do their lives have to be threatened in order for them to change their view?
39. How many scenes did you previously have at this location? Remove one element that existed in all those previous scenes that took place here. Has the location become fresh?
40. Your character doesn’t lead the scene, but becomes a peripheral character here. What changes?
41. Your character becomes completely uninvolved. What happens?
42. Let your characters talk, and nothing else. What happens?
43. Now no one is allowed to run through plans with each other, to argue, or communicate meaningfully. What happens?
44. This scene now takes place at a different time of day. What happens?
45. A smell or a spoken or imagined phrase reminds a character about something. How do their actions change?
46. Under normal circumstances, a character has a normal way of doing things. But this time, that comfortable pattern of behavior gets interrupted or disabled. How do they react?

...Okay, I need some help thinking of more list items that can help out a writer. I created this list out of necessity since I found virtually nothing helpful online. I was wondering if some of you have your own tips and tricks to flesh out a scene once you've hit a roadblock.

Tell me what you think. Add any new list items that you think a blocked writer could use.

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