So when it comes to conceptualizing stories, I'm all for that. I can generate ideas, plot summaries, and rough character descriptions very easily. The problem is that when it comes to actually writing that into a story, I end up getting bored. Which I know is just part of the writing process, but I'm trying to come up with some ways to mitigate that. Let's call this hypothetical set of mitigation strategies "meta-writing techniques"
So one problem I was having was that I had no idea how to end a story. I'd write and write and then the ending would feel unsatisfactory, and I would be too burned out to put effort into rewriting the ending. To mitigate that, I try to visualize the story on a higher level, and use less specific and detailed writing to get the gist of it down, then going back and adding foreshadowing in this description. I call this meta-writing technique "architecting" after the Gardeners and Architects dichotomy.
Another problem I had was that I was concerned my main character was too powerful (As I like to call it, Rey syndrome after The Force Awakens: Too powerful to be interesting). The meta-writing technique I came up with is one I like to call "Balance of Power" (I know, not creative) where in the core cast of characters, spread skills and abilities around. Does the group need to pick a lock, hack a door, and then get away in a car chase? Don't give all that to one character, spread the skills around so that the group works as a powerful team. This is heavily inspired by my experiences with tabletop RPGs where the different character classes allow us to get through the situation by leveraging different players.
The problem I have now is that I have a plot summary you could reasonably find on a Wikipedia page for the story, but I have trouble getting motivated to actually bring it from the outline stage.
So, using the examples I provided, any techniques come to mind to get motivated to go beyond the outline stage? XD I realize that motivation is a fickle thing, and everyone does it a little differently. One idea I've had is letting the outline sit for a while (Maybe a few months without touching or thinking about it), and then coming back to it with a fresh mind. Another idea is to gradually expand the outline with more and more detail until it becomes a write-by-numbers project of "This needs to happen in this chapter, go do that." I dunno. I'm also partly writing at you to try and give myself ideas.
If you've left a thread or two loose and your readers are demanding to know what happened, use that as a motivator for the second book. Or the third, or the fourth....
