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@thecommonmold
2018
2024 TIT
Phil the phrophet back at it again
Hello Neil,i know you have 120k asks, so you will never see this, but genuinely, how do i start writing? I know it probably sounds silly to you, but I am 15 and already feel behind. I want to be a writer, I have loved reading ever since I read Coraline at 9 and have always wanted to do something creative with my life and to be an author just feels so fitting for me,I just don't know how to do it I guess. I keep trying but it always turns out bad,I don't even know where to beigin and how to pace the story or do anything really.I write short fanfics sometimes and when i go back to read them they are just objectively bad. I know what I do and dont like in stories,I just can't seem to accomplish what I want when I try to write it. And I do have so many ideas, but it never goes anywhere, and I can't put the words on the page. I know improving takes time but I just wish I had some guidance on how to improve(English is my third language so I probably made mistakes, I apologize )
You sound a lot l would have done at the age of 15, had I been articulate enough to say anything like that. At the age of 15 all I knew was that I really wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to write and draw comics one day. I had some ideas that would turn out to be good ideas 15 years later or 25 years later but at that time they were just ideas and I didn't know how to make them into stories.
The most important thing you can do is to keep writing. The second most important thing you can do is to live and learn and experience the world and accumulate a store of things that you have to say and things that you need to write about.
Like everyone else has said, OP, the main thing you need to do is keep writing! Have you seen the "make your shitty pots" post?
If not, it goes something like this: A guy was teaching two sections of pottery 101. He told one section that their grade was going to be based on one final-exam pot, that was the best they could do. They spent a lot of time studying technique and theory, and planning what to do for their One Best Pot. The other section, he said would be graded based on how many pots they made. They started making pots from day one, and the first ones were really bad, but they got better as they went along. In the end, the best pots from the Many Pots class ended up being better than the One Best Pot from the group who were told to strive for perfection.
Now, I work at a college, and in real life you'd probably get in a lot of trouble for conducting two classes like this (at least if you hadn't gotten approval from the Institutional Review Board to experiment on your students), but it is absolutely a true thing that, to get better at something, you need to do it. Make your crummy, amateur-looking pots, and then make another one.
Keep writing, and if you can, keep sharing your work with an audience--even just a small one. If you can find somebody (or preferably several somebodies) wo you can trust to give honest-but-kind feedback, treasure them. Having your worked ripped apart doesn't do any good, but if they can both point out your strengths and draw your attention to areas where those strengths have not been applied, that can be really helpful.
For instance, I'm personally pretty good at dialogue, except when I have worldbuilding or backstory information to convey, when I tend to have characters info-dump, regardless of whether it's in-character for that particular character. Since I know this, I usually go ahead and write a version of the scene where they do just that--that way, I can work out what I need to know, and what each character knows and doesn't know. Then I do a second pass where I figure out what the audience needs to know, and put everything else aside in my "keep this in mind/maybe use it later" document. Finally I do it a third time to try to make it sound like how these people would actually talk about this topic.
Oh, and also, I'll often move on to write the next part of the story in between drafts of the scene I'm struggling with--often the "what the audience needs to know" question becomes clearer once I've nailed down what's coming next. (I'm still working on knowing when to move on. so far it's happened twice with my current project, where I realized, "Oh, I've been churning over this scene for ages, I should actually just let it sit for a bit while I do the next thing," and I'm proud of that.)
This specific example may not apply to you, but the point is that, even within the context of a given piece, sometimes you have to make your shitty pots.
YOU hates terfs
rb if u hates terfs
enamored by the concept that the options for hard launching were either a finely crafted, produced, and articulate 45 minute video or just fuckin making out on stage at when we were young fest and the only reason we got the less insane version is because some guy didnt know what a meme was
This picture of dan with his dips has always been infuriating to me because clearly the second dip and the fourth dip (the yellow one and the beige one) need to be swapped
so i went and took 5-10 minutes to fix it for myself
its not perfect but see how much better that looks??? dan please learn how colours work
This is much better but it's always bothered me that the red one is above the brown one? Could you put the red one where the brown one is and then add the brown at the end after the second darker red?
i spent an hour on this and my free ibis paint time ran out so its a little bit messy on the left end but here you go
The difference is that jealous Ilya looks homicidal while jealous Shane looks suicidal
@raccoonboywrites coming correct as always
cause after all of this time, i'm still into you
crazy pull
when im 45 years old ill still be here posting like take my hand. lets go into menopause together
dan saying āof our friendship. partnership. romanceā is so dearly important to me because one thing about dnp is that they will always be friends first
The same man who ate glue is also the only one who knows how to make the mortgage payments.
I understand that people have issues with ep 3, but Iām grateful for it bc it gave us the Scott/Shane fight and therefore all of these great posts on Tumblr.com
I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.
I finally donated to Wikipedia this year. I usually donate to something more "food for children", but it's different now. We can't lose it.
You people need to understand that the USA was disgusting from the first millisecond it was conceived
The EU loves to "monitor the situation" when a western country is blatantly committing a crime
How we need 2 be acting as a society