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I've been struggling with my creative writing for a couple of years. Recently, feeling like I lost all my juice. About two months ago, I just sat down and had a hard think about what I wanted for my original characters and ultimately just started typing. Happy to report that now I have just reached the 150 page mark and am so immensely proud of myself. I finally managed to write a coherent piece for one of my oldest characters, and it rocks!
I have now successfully finished my first draft of 166 pages and I've been a bouncy-giggly ball all day because of it
Giga huge
It reminds me of what I was doing. I eventually found a writer's critique group that taught me so much about authorship and story design. But before that it's you, an idea, and hundreds of pages of a little guy doing cool shit
What's the story?
Thank you! And thank you for asking!
Having other people to ask about writing is one of the best things that can happen to you when you really need some feedback. But you are right, until you have anything to ask questions about, it's just empty pages, a medium of filling them and your brain doing the funniest somersaults to fill them. It's worth it, every time I try. What are you writing?
Oh that's a long one. Short version: It's a crossover fanfic. I have a demoness I created when I watched Supernatural for the first time, then I added some Star Wars and Assassin's Creed. My demoness had a rough couple of years and this story is basically her working through what's holding her back and down. And just by accident, she stumbles onto something big. :3
It's mostly a personal story, has a lot of my personal struggles in there too, but it's fictionalized enough, I think. I'm still editing at this point, and there's a lot left to modify.
How curiously close to how I started writing in college. I just had a bunch of people talking about my struggles and one fuck ass gremlin man who was rewarded for bad behavior.
Right now my focus is in a story where Icarus was laughing as he burned in the sky and is therefore the central mystery of a shonen/YA. This kid grew up deeply indoctrinated in a fascist, imperial society and, while searching for his mentor who had a change of heart, comes to discover a society living in the sky. They have a lot to say about his argumentative ignorance about pride and legacy. And then he and his friends are all tortured in various ways as the pressures of the imperial war and the dragon king's curiously AI shaped technology comes to a head again a goddess who feels like her domain is being trespassed upon.
Oh my, now I'm really worried about my quality of writing :') but there's always strange people in college, I think that's part of what makes it what it is
That sounds really intriguing! I'd love to have a read if you feel like sharing (now or later)!
It's important that you don't sweat the quality of your first draft. It's the beginning of a long process of craftsmanship. I know writers much more dedicated than me who will completely reimagine and reframe their work between drafts. For example someone had the main heroine switch from a 30-something office worker to a teenager, to fresh out of college to make relationships fit around her. There's a chance you only come to know what the heck you wanted to say after you've already said 100k words. And what a blessing it is to have something to say. As long as you have that, the words will actually serve the form no matter if they're the equivalent of drawing with crayons
Oh absolutely. I've been writing for about twenty years by now, so I like to think of myself as "experienced enough to know the basics". I have no proper experience apart from what I write for myself, so the bar right now is very low: Finish the draft and edit it. That is going somewhat well for now, so I'm happy as it is :) and since I got some experience with professional proofreading, I'm confident I can turn this thing into something beautiful eventually. It's just gonna take patience and time.
May I print this out and hang it above my desk? Because I feel it, sincerely. I like the comparison with crayon drawings, it feels like this most of the time. Figuring out what to say is probably the hardest and most rewarding thing, and even if it takes ages, once you have that in a draft, you can change everything around it to make it fit.
There is humor in telling someone who has written for far longer than me to not sweat their first draft. I guess I envisioned myself having never written at length before getting to 150 pages for the first time and what I would have benefitted from hearing.
I would be honored to have it hang on your desk!
Everybody is a good advisor on writing as long as they share sincere advise. I appreciate your input a lot!
I'll let you know when it's ready