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Jun 11 07 11:52 AM

I have had the same problem before. The best routine you can get into, considering what you've described, is write down what you are thinking. Get a small notepad and pen, and keep it on you at all times.

When you get an idea, write it down. It need only be a couple of sentences, but it can be more detailed than that. Once you do this, you will find that you can plan an entire scene around this framework, and you can later re-read the notes (though for me, it isn't necessary; once I've written them down, they are committed to memory) and write the entire scene in great detail.

The act of writing down the notes vividly cements the scene in your mind. It's very effective.

The other routine you could use (as I find it useful, though I'm not currently using it, and hence not writing actively fictionfactor/bleh.gif) is to plan to write for one hour per day, at a particular time, or something like that. Depending on your writing speed, in one hour you can write several hundred words. If you know what you want to write, you will write a chapter or two each week. Of course, you have to know the scenes, and at least generally where the story is going. Otherwise, you blank out, or talk yourself out of writing altogether.

At least, this works for me.

iaceu

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