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.
I wrote the fun parts and just took the path of least resistance to connect them. And when I had a narrative that was garbo, I rewrote the entire thing from scratch with a better narrative that actually made sense.
Starting with the fun parts is good idea! Getting that on screen/page ought to be motivating, like, "hey, isn't this cool" lets make it work.