I have stories in my head ( broad strokes). I can vividly imagine narrative moments in media res that I would love to do justice to by filling out the before and after. I create personalities in my head that I talk to and could transcribe. I know what themes and motifs I would like to touch... but every time I sit down to actually try and drag these imaginings into reality my mind goes blank. I sit, I struggle, I am at a crossroad amidst a blank void.
How do I learn how to give structure to this impulse to create fiction? Where do I learn how to create a program or methodology that allows me to take these abstract yearnings and give them a concrete form?
Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening.
write write write. it doesn't matter if it's bad or not what you thought or whatever. get words on a page. do not worry about quality insofar as your initial drafting, you are seeking progression and plot. it needs to materialize, only then can it be fixed; you can rewrite what you write, you can't rewrite what you haven't written. take an idea and run with it. stories tend to be in this weird state of abstraction until you sit down and put some of it on paper. only then does it fall into place.
"can't rewrite what you haven't written"... that resonates. Thank you.