coyotesuspect replied to your post “will i finish ANYTHING, EVER, again cause at this point even ‘well I’m...”
yay for progress! :) I'm really excited for this! (In a no pressure way!) Also, this is an incredible and impressive level of detail and thought.
I am glad you are excited! <3
and, re: impressive - I get why it seems that way! But personally I find the ability to just write words, and write more words, and maybe edit them and edit them some more, and have them come out in a story that works, way more impressive. I can’t do that. (I used to be able to, it used to be all I could do, and then I ‘leveled up,’ I think? Well, I like to think of it that way.) Anyway, I’m writing like this because I can’t write like that.
Without some sort of written plan connecting all the smaller pieces back into the big picture, they just won’t connect. Without a deliberate pass through to add ‘actions, thoughts/feelings, and description’ (or something similar), my characters will just sit talking to each other in empty space for large parts of the story! (And if I simply try to ‘flesh it out,’ they’ll do the same thing while looking at and then away from each other again, and maybe reaching out to touch each other even if they're not ~there~ at the moment. I speak from experience.) And if I don’t repeatedly sternly tell myself ‘leave word choice and phrasing ALONE until the end,’ I will in fact spend far more time fucking with phrasing that bothers me than doing anything else with the story, and, if I ever even manage to get back to the big picture, I will then get rid of most of the prose I spent all that time fucking with, to boot.
