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How do you feel about writing?
| In my experience of writing, I tend to write out characters I'd like to insert into a story as well as create a setting to place them in. Most of my stories tend to have no particular goal / theme in mind, therefore seem to make no progress, therefore leads to both me the writer and any reader to lose interest.
| For me, I do my best to go all in. I prefer building the entire world from the ground up before setting any of the characters up anywhere. Even on my spare times my imagination wanders on worlds that could be. Usually I give up quickly though, but I can also write things on the go. Quality drops when I do thatthough.
| I end up usually building a story around one or two really climactic scenes that I just randomly come up with.
Then again I take most of my inspiration from movies and visual media rather than books.
| this is a good question and one to think on. off the top of my head was the Hemingway quote about a good writer needing a shock-proof, built-in bullshit detector.
| >>403043 I've never written using this method, but I've also had ideas pop up and form around something I find partiularly interesting, mainly music. It doesn't need lyrics for me to be inspired, all I need is the feeling to go off of it.
| whenever i get an idea, i just write it. no edits or anything, i just throw down whatever's on my mind. usually that's enough to give me a bunch of sub-ideas and turn it into a story. then i can start editing.
it's messy and i scrap a lot of those stories. but when i don't i love the way it turns out -- and in turn that makes me a lot more confident about sharing my work!
i haven't posted anything though
| I've only written for videogames, but mostly I just wing it. Some times I can't think of what to write so I keep coding, and some other times I start and can't stop wrwriting Dialogues, descriptions and jokes coming out of my brain like vomit, and that is where I write the best
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| Whenever you write a story, what principles do you agree with? Is there a favorite author who's advice you use towards building your own work?