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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14812704...

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/17551809...

i run a gaming blog that is more like a creative writing blog. i just published this essay. the essay’s main theme is nostalgia and living-in-the-past told through personal stories....

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I hope this is allowed here, if not, feel free to remove my post, mods...

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) kicks off today!...

I love writing. I love telling stories and putting all the fantasies and day dreams in my head down on paper. I write mostly for myself, though I share some with people and love it when they comment on it....

This post might sound like an advertisement (which it partly is, of course, you don’t try to get published if you don’t want people to read your stuff) but I want to use this post to encourage other new writers....

Just a wannabe writer here. I’ve only ever strung a few paragraphs together, maybe an essay’s worth occasionally. I used to work on blog posts in Evernote and I still use it for capturing stray thoughts. I use it as a place for ideas and that’s exactly what happens. I never develop the idea, I just write down another one....

“What’s your process like?”...

So my novel takes place in an afterlife and focuses on one major character, as they try to heal from childhood trauma, learn helpful mental health tools, and newly take in this beautiful universe....

So I’m on v2 of my novel. I could call it “second draft”, but it’s more of the second semi-prose outline. I have a fight scene in Chapter 13....

I guess the way that my brain works is that I try to plan out the best ideas, the best scenes, the best actions first. I focus on what excites me and what will function the best. This uses a lot of brain power, and I can only do it for a bit before I get exhausted and end that day’s writing....

Made by me.

I was inspired by S. Horwitz who transcribed Rowling’s post of her outline of OoP and posted about it on his site/blog. And I quite liked this Grid....

I want to share an experience I had the other day that fundamentally changed the way I think about my writing and the way I process feedback....

Before summer holidays i decided to try to start writing a book, or at least, a long and engaging story. I wrote some months ago a short fanfic and the few people that read it like it very much....

You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence....

The easy-looking, and the simple things in all art matters are more difficult than the complex and intricate. It is a rule that easy reading is hard writing, and to construct anything that the mind takes in without effort, and without being puzzled by it, is a triumph of art....

In 1876, Leo Tolstoy lamented to a friend that the book he was writing had become “sickening to me,” “unbearably repulsive,” “terribly disgusting and nasty,” and “a bore, insipid as a bitter radish.”...

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