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I've never seen my creative side explained so eloquently lol
Absolutely called out. So many stories either on random document/text files or on Wattpad that are so incomplete it's not even funny.
"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" - J. R. R. Tolkien
That is just how all good things start; with a small idea that grows. Same with anything creative.
Same for Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin... He's stated that the whole story started from a vision of the "king's party comes across a dead direwolf surrounded by her whimpering pups and the stag that pierced her chest" scene.
He referred to the whole legundarium as growing from a single small idea. I don't know if we know what it was, but it started that way.
"Excerpts from a book I'll never write"
Oh look it's me and my sexual fantasies
Short stories and flash fiction avoid this problem by having genre conventions that allow for focusing only on a specific scene. Ploughshares in its recent Winter edition has a fiction piece that's three paragraphs long, which I thought was an appropriate length for the content.
I think it's somewhat common for writers to start with writing shorter pieces. GRRM comes to mind.
Guilty. Though it usually stays in my head so I can go back and re”wtite” it over and over until I accidentally make huge plotholes but I like the scenes that cause plotholes so time to redo THOSE while trying to not make the scene suck. Rinse and repeat.
Isn't this kinda what you want?
I am an uncontrollable perfectionist in this scenario. I have yet to start to write down any of the narratives that have lived in my head for years because i feel the tiniest detail or Nuance needs a research paper of its own for it to make sense.
I am more likely to die of old age then write a single chapter but someone is going to inherit a huge collection of neo-science articles.
I relate to this meme so much
Me every time I try to write a song
Oh shit, my ranger. And my rogue. And my paladin. And my artificer. And my etc.