Am I the only one who started writing just to see if I could🤔😂

[anchoritemagus@lemmy.world]

Building a coherent and entertaining plot is a skill that, like any other skill, needs to be trained and practiced to be good at.

Go to the writing prompt communities. Pick a prompt every day to reply to. Those are ready-made plots for your writing practice.

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@davecb For me it's fiction it's more weird ideas and jokes than it is worlds to explore

[alan@mindly.social]

@NickEast_IndieWriter @galacticwriters I am in the "ideas I want to explore" camp. This has resulted in years of work learning how to tell a story, and then wrapping a story around those ideas. Four years later I think I know how to finish this damn thing.

[fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world]

Is that you, James Cameron?

[darrinbrunner@lemmy.world]

I started writing because I read a story that had a cool concept and characters, but wasn't polished. It seemed like a rough draft. I was so frustrated by it, I re-wrote it. I did the same for another story, and then I started writing my own stories.

I enjoy writing, especially that wondrous moment when my characters start talking to me, telling me where I've made a mistake--that they very much would not say what I just wrote. But, I'm not very good at it.

[rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world]

Working on a massive epic fantasy type thing. There is a plot, but I find in enjoying characters just talking to each other and developing more than the actual frickin' plot.

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@NickEast_IndieWriter No, you're definitely not the only one who started writing just to see if you could!

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[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

Fucking*

[bizarroland@lemmy.world]

I got plots for days, I struggle with formatting the story.

Anyone want to co-write?

Hell, I'd pay cash money

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@alan I've always had a clear idea about the finish of my story, or at least the beginning of the end, but it's the getting to the finish... that's the problem

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@fletcher_bosom Yes

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@DarrinBrunner It sounds like you may enjoy some form of editing

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@Rivermoonwolf I'm in the epic fantasy business as well, but I feel like I should've choseen another business

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@mkj My thinking is it's a bit like heroin, other people do it so why shouldn't I give it a try. And before we know it we're stuck in a swamp of our own despair

[nickeast_indiewriter@mastodon.art]

@bizarroland I'm sure you can find editors more than willing to help you with that...

[alan@mindly.social]

@NickEast_IndieWriter My process often goes like:

* What if [possibility or circumstance]?
* Well, it would affect people in this way...
* Which would cause this set of problems...
* Which get resolved by...
* Which get resolved by...
* Which get resolved by...
Hello, brain? Can I have some sort of resolution here? Anything? Bueller?