Now this method works all the time. Brainstorming is great when you are stuck at a story.

For instance, let's suppose you're writing a story on Lexi Branson's life and you are stuck on how to proceed on to her vampire transition. All you have to do is relax and take a paper and pen.

On the paper state in bullets the important events you have covered in your story and also list all the events that would follow according to the timeline present in TVD Wikia (keep in mind that the chronological order should be correct, it may seem hard but then Wiki provides all the needed authentic information for that). 

In that way you will get a clear mental outline on all the important events that will take place in the story and trust me, once you get a hold on the main stuff, you will be easily able to stuff in the chapters which lead to the main events.

You should always set a goal before proceeding towards it and in this case, the main events become your goal and the filler chapters or other chapters constitute the journey.

This is called Brainstorming. And it helps a lot.

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