A 50000 words manuscript amounts to around 1667 words per day for 30 days and so I set that amount as my per day word target. I jumped into writing the novel without much of an idea about the story.
What could go wrong?
I started writing a coming of age story about a guy just starting his second last year of high school. I wrote the first chapter day before yesterday and the second one yesterday. The words flowed out pretty well and easy leading to me meeting the word count target easily both days. But the problem is that I'm genuinely stumped about what to do next. I have thought for a lot of time but genuinely can't come up with anything good.
[long boring summary of generic high school scenario about a kid and his crush with absolutely no hook whatsoever]
How can I get over this writing block thing quickly?
I want to go a little easy because this is probably a kid, but if you're bored of your story by day 3, write a different story. You cannot write a coming of age story if you have nothing to say about coming of age, and you cannot write a novel if you don't have ideas for a novel.
If you can jerk off when you're not horny, you can write when you're not inspired.
HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I MASTURBATE TODAY?
If you never feel inspired for a particular story, it's time to ditch it.
You say: “I have many ideas of where the story should go next but none of them are good ones.”
Day 3 is way too early for sunk cost, how about writing something you actually like?
Well I've been procrastinating since 5 years so I'd say my target is 5 years and 30 days
Neighbor write a short story or something goddarn
Why would you want to be a writoid if you never have ideas?
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They just like the label, the idea of "being a writer".
Most of the problems in these very, very funny subs seem to boil down to the people involved not having anything they really want to say in their writing.
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It really seems like 90% of the people on that sub are Brian Griffin impersonators
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its a good show!
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They know the basic mechanics of writing (forming words and sentences) and sometimes even have creative ideas but know basically nothing about style
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ffs, not having a writing style is the ultimate cope. Neighbor, just read someone else's book and imitate them.
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Um, actually, you don't need to read in order to be able to write. Believing in the superiority of long-form writing over alternative media is LITERALLY white supremacy by means of suppressing the voices of BIPOCs
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This is true, we invented dictation apps for people of illiteracy.
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I support content creators of color by only consooming shitty anime
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Style isn't the issue. It's the fact that /r/writing users (and most writers in general) have absolutely zero idea how to tell a dramatic story.
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Unironically why I like using LLama when I write. I can feed the AI a paragraph I wrote, tell it add prose, repeat 20 times and then pick the handful of nice lines
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Does llama put out more interesting responses than chatgpt? I feel like gpt puts out responses that are accurate but boring (no interesting style of writing, sounds like an /r/writing kid tbh)
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100%. You have to prime it with examples (I'll feed it like 3 paragraphs I wrote and then say "Continue the above in the same style adding detail, dialog and prose")
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Isn't it more fun to think of the lines yourself?
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They just have no passion.
The 800,000 word MLP Fallout crossover fanfiction is evidence you don't have to be a particularly good writer to write, you just need some passion about the subject you're writing about.
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This is why I write porn, always something to say about butt fricking, sissy raceplay and futa orc X goblin cbt
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Post excerpt
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The most offensive thing is that it's 2nd person what the frick
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I intended to make a cyoa out of it lol
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Can you?? Amazon self pub too
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😴😴😴
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f u lpb
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I would rather 1000 losers with no “ideas” actually writing than 10,000 losers on /r/writing who all have a “great idea” (eg a fantasy epic about a mystical boy who fingers a dragon or w.e) but who refuse to actually write
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You don't need to have some epic message in your writing. Tolkien didn't have any cute twinky morals in his stories, he just told badass tales. Its just a collapse of originality.
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I'm not talking about having an epic message. I'm talking about something you want to express. Most (good) literature starts with the desire to say something, to put something out into the world.
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