Writer's Block · 6:38am Mar 14th, 2023
I dunno if this specifically counts as it, but it's really more like a design block. It's a harsh lesson that I really should have learned by now, but never start a story if you don't know how you're going to end it. To be fair, plenty of writers on this site have fun just writing non-stop multi-chapter narratives which go on and on forever until they finally end it (two hundred chapters later), but that can also lead to their downfall when they're forced to cancel it because they lost interest or wrote themselves into a wall.
The latter is something I can't understand since no one said you couldn't just take back a few chapters and start over, right? 
I've seriously considered it for this story so I can re-do some scenes and make the whole story more refined and steer toward a better ending.
What do you all think? 
I think at the end of the day an author should do what's best for themselves and the story. Sometimes that's a rewrite or outright cancellation.
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Rewrite maybe, but I don't think most of the story needs that.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT'S LIKE
5718077
*snort*
I'm afraid I'm not sure what the best course of action would be here, sorry, but it does sound like what you're doing now isn't working very well for the story, at least?
In any case, though, good luck!
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Well, it did get me stuck not writing it and while that happened I came up with better ideas to take the story and end it had I gone in a slightly different direction.
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...Well, I guess from that perspective, it could be said to have worked well, then? :D
And it's sounding like going back a bit and continuing on from there might be your best option here, yeah. Maybe preserve the old retconned chapters as an extra bit of side material, or something?
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Or... as a dream.
I have the opposite problem. I know how I want it to end... I just have trouble connecting all those points.
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That's a tough one.
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Could also work, aye. :)