normally i wouldn't tell people to give up on their dreams but come the frick on 💀💀
in typical reddit fashion, everything is so so bad. the advice, the depressed writers looking for people to validate their awful ideas. i distinctly remember one poster who wanted to know if people wanted to read about dinosaur bones. that's it. no mention of characters, no worldbuilding, no paleontologist murder mystery set in the heart of the african jungle. if you can't convince yourself, why should we care? here's a quote from Adaptation (2002):
People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fricking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save somebody else. Every fricking day someone somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry, somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you my friend don't know crap about life!
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The hardest part is finding a place that gives honest critiques instead of asspats
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what are your concerns with your writing
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It stinks, it sucks, im r-slurred
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study the market > read > outline > write. I'm in the camp that writing should be the least of your concern and that you should focus on the outline. you've probably already read and watched enough to know what you like. tolkien took like 12 years to finish lotr, frank herbert researched and outlined for 6 before he started writing Dune.
make your concept bulletproof, look for specific moments in your life where ideas come to you, and it becomes much less daunting. look into tarantino's poetry between the lines interview - the story within the story within the story
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I like cyberpunk and Keates and i am beyond salvation but thank you
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