its so fascinating reading about your writing process as someone who is not creatively minded, like i dont believe I've ever had an original thought lmao. The way that youre able to break it down in to several different plotlines and tangle all the interactions into one cohesive storyline while keeping all this emotional intricacy is so cool to me
i'm very glad to hear you enjoy it, as i also enjoy deconstructing it! besides dachshund things and fic lore, those are probably my favorite asks to receive = v=
I will caution you though that you must not be overestimating your "not creatively minded" mindset's propensity to hold you back and underestimating the literal decades of study i've put into creative writing. i have a degree in creative writing, i teach it, and i have been doing it very consistently for over thirty years. i've written millions of words over the course of my lifetime, finished more books and stories than most people read. it looks easy in the same way that seeing someone walk looks easy; it is, mechanically, incredibly difficult, but they've been doing it so long, they don't even think about the minutia. it is not an A, then B, then C... then Z task; it is an A, then Z task. this happens only through lots and lots and lots of practice.
and, not to belabor a cliche, but your creativity is kind of like a muscle. it is true that some people probably have a predisposition towards more fanciful thoughts and whimsy that brings about an easy to thinking of plot points or storylines or characters. but this is only a baseline; an untalented student who works hard will outperform a natural who does nothing to exercise the craft.
you can teach yourself how to be creative. find prompt lists, listen to music, study art, read not as a reader but as a writer. join a club, take a class or seminar, undertake a writing challenge. nanowrimo doesn't exist anymore but the framework for it does, and it's an incredible exercise to push you out of your comfort zone where growth happens. use a random word generator and set it to verbs, then write a story where a character does that verb. it'll suck, of course it will. but you will grow. and you'll do it again and again and again until you are strong and suddenly it doesn't suck anymore. write it badly. over and over and over. only then can you write it well.
do not compare your skills to me, or to any other artist to whom you attribute greatness. let your stars be guides, not goalposts. the only person against whom you should place a measure is yourself. are you better today than you were yesterday? then you have grown.
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