when you finally figure out how to spark the conflict of your story after four hopeless years of outlining

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when you finally figure out how to spark the conflict of your story after four hopeless years of outlining
i. cant. choose. between. names. for my. cHARACTER.
the devil on my shoulder is telling me to write my failed anti-hero as autistic 🤔
let it be known that i am back on my Old Church Slavonic etymology bullshit
Writing fic is great for all the scenarios you can create and drop the characters into.
Writing fic sucks because coming up with actual plotpoints for the story is hard.
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So uh, I wrote a think. Enjoy.
Do you write stories?
i do! :)
well, not succesfully LOL. i have been working on this one story idea since i was 12 or 13. it putters away in the back of my mind, and i have a running document for any time i have ideas. i have nothing actually written because ive never been able to quite nail down a solid plot in my head. i have ideas for parts of a plotline -- trajectory for character development, themes i want to explore, moral questions, symbology, etc -- but nothing to string them together yet in a cohesive narrative.
i will keep plodding away and hope that one day, it will click, and i will finally be able to bring those characters and world to life. it might not happen for a long time, and that's okay.
we stand a queen who writes detailed royal family trees spanning six generations for her story <3