I've not been hitting mine (1k words a day) and so I estimate I've got about 3K words to make up. One thing I've learned this week though: if your stuck, why not try something kind of drastic like changing a characters gender? It may just help you get your creative juices flowing.
A second thing I've learned this week is that some characters and situations simply scream to get out of your brain and down on the page. Take the words "Midnight" and "Talon" for instance. When you write themed genre work you run into some of the same elements in each story. Writing Batman, Nightwing, or Batgirl for DC wouldn't be completely foreign to writing Moon Knight for Marvel. There would be some crossover in themes and such. The same could be said for writing the Punisher and James Bond.
This is something that I need to be careful of because I have fully developed characters and story concepts that I've put aside but they keep creeping up into my current project. I don't want to steal from one character and give those elements to another. I don't want to be accused of going to the same well again and again for water.
I have this character on back burner:
He's my dark avenger type hero for a superhero story and I've spent quite a bit of time developing him so when I looked back at the outline for my current project I realized I'd named one character TALON and a vehicle belonging to another character Midnight.
That's not all. I'd also tried to steal custom "super powers" I've developed for a character and give them to a character of my current project. Now, how original would my next project be when it came out if I did that?
Not very. Midnight Talon clearly wants to come out and play. I'd better move him up on the que of things to do next....
