Meaning of write oneself into a corner | Babel Free

Definitions

To reach a narrative point in which the story one is writing gets stuck, leaving no good or satisfactory alternative or resolution.

idiomatic

Examples

“When Rudyard Kipling wrote the words, “That belongs to another story,” he conferred upon scribbling mankind an inestimabie blessing. How we ever got along without the accommodating little sentence, I don't know⟳, but it has evidently come⟳ to stay⟳. You write⟳ yourself “into a corner,” and see⟳ no way out of it except to tear⟳ up the sheet and begin⟳ over, when–Presto! “That belongs to another story” pops into your head and your awkward sentence is gracefully capped.”

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