Idiom
write oneself into a corner
Meaning
To reach a narrative point in which the story one is writing gets stuck, leaving no good or satisfactory alternative or resolution.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I wrote myself into a corner and cannot finish the story.”
“The author realized he had written himself into a corner when his main character had no way to escape the locked room.”
“By introducing too many conflicting plot twists, the novelist inadvertently wrote himself into a corner, leaving the final chapter impossible to resolve logically.”
Examples
simple
“I wrote myself into a corner and cannot finish the story.”
contextual
“The author realized he had written himself into a corner when his main character had no way to escape the locked room.”
complex
“By introducing too many conflicting plot twists, the novelist inadvertently wrote himself into a corner, leaving the final chapter impossible to resolve logically.”
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