Great ... now I'm stuck

I often see some posts here about people who are stuck with their writing and I often tell them not to force it out and to take a break, and I am trying not to force it out because I want to be happy with the story myself. I write all of my stories for my own enjoyment, and share them because they are things I enjoy. Some of you seem to like them as well, and I am thankful of that. At the same time, I am really excited about the story and I want to finish it. I want to have the satisfaction of completing it and having something I can be proud to have written, and hopefully you can enjoy reading. "Catch Me If You Can" is becoming a story that I enjoy writing, and I don't want to let anyone down when I write it. I want you guys to enjoy it too. My mind is already jumping ahead and I know how the end of chapter 11 onwards will be. I know how the story will go and how the characters will be and kind of how it will all end. But to get to the end of chapter 11, I need to start chapter 11. And that's what I'm stuck on. I'm struggling to get the party started. And I want to give you guys something, and soon.

So ... whilst I'm sitting here and listening to music, eating pizza and drinking Coke, anyone have any tricks or ideas on how I can get this chapter rolling? ^_^

Also, I want to say a big thank you again to 9DancingStars for my cover image. I really do love it.

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mischievous_akmood #1 Aug 1, 2015 15:39:32

hmm different things work for different people, but the way I do it, I usually try to start off with something that gets the reader's attention... but then other times I get lazy and I just start off with a short description that gives a bit of information about the chapter's setting and stuff LOL

peachywink #2 Aug 1, 2015 14:31:36

sometimes reading other peoples work to see how they started a chapter can help just to give you ideas of different set ups like I sometimes start mid conversation and will have a character do a minor think back to the events that led up to that moment then continue on with the scene. I also sometimes just do a paragraph or two that glosses over a section of time in order to arrive at the main part of a scene.