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My writing skills.

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  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Fuck, my description is still too dry. I always forget about that until paragraphs after I wrote the part. 

    I dunno how some writers can go paragraphs describing things without dialogue...
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    ^Me neither, which is why I prefer screenwriting.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Pre-writing is a good solution. Make a list of ideas and you can come up with details later."

    I already do that in my min anyway. I never really pre-wrote because it doesn't help me at all.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    What are you writing about?

    And I don't mean in terms of setting, technology, magic or whatever. What are the underlying themes here? What's the ultimate goal of the story?  
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    Tried writing.

    Quit within 5 minutes of realizing everyone else here is vastly better than me.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    edited 2011-07-18 10:30:05
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    There is always someone better, but that's no reason to not try. Hell, my wife is a better writer than me, but I still write and I'm the one who is published for it. She doesn't try because she doesn't really like to write that much. She's more of an artist.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Duh, you're like 15 and extremely green compared to us. You have shitloads of time to become awesome.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Chagen, here is an exercise for you.

    Find five random objects around the house- preferably things like paintings, things with a lot of detail to them- and write a description of them. 200 words for each object.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    No thanks. 

    The last 24 hours have taught me one thing at least. That some people just suck at things. And they never get better.

    With that, I think it's time for me to stop trying, because all it's doing is wasting my time, and quit writing. This isn't even a ragequit. This is flat-out accepting defeat, because....defeat's the only thing I get.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    -sigh-

    Okay. If you say so.

    You're giving up without a fight, but whatever.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. 

    It's not very fun to do something if you fucking suck at doing it.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    edited 2011-07-18 10:42:27
    Kichigai birthday!!
    I love drawing and have a lot of fun and I'm terrible.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-07-18 10:43:04
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    ^^ Do you think the first thing that Stephen King ever wrote was publishable?

    Do you think the stories George RR Martin wrote when he was just starting out was as good as what he writes now?

    Do you think JK Rowling was just born writing bestselling novels?

    It's not very fun to do something if you fucking suck at doing it.
    o rly
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "Do you think the first thing that Stephen King ever wrote was publishable?

    Do you think the stories George RR Martin wrote when he was just starting out was as good as what he writes now?

    Do you think JK Rowling was just born writing bestselling novels?"

    Perhaps? I don't know. But they probably were a hell of a lot better than me when they started out.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Chagen, I am a guitar player. 

    When I improvise a solo, people tell me that I'm unreal. I appreciate the opinion, but it's an exaggeration. I'm mildly better than average. 

    When I started, it took me three months to learn my first song. 

    Three.

    Freakin'.

    Months. 

    Today, I can pull a ripping solo out of my ass at any point, because I stuck with it, studied it and challenged myself to get better. All the time. I practised for hours a day. 

    Anyone can get good at anything, and if you love writing, you owe it to yourself to keep at it. You will get good, you just have to be patient with yourself and keep trucking. 
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    edited 2011-07-18 10:49:18
    RE-ANIMATOR
    My advice:  If you can't write well, write porn.  Nobody cares about quality there.

    @Alex ... How long you been playing the guitar now? I played the piano for over a decade, passed my Grade 8 Trinity Board examination.... and I NEVER learnt to play improv. Never once managed to just pull anything out of my arse. Everything I composed, and I didn't compose much, took me weeks... right up until the end.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    The first thing I ever wrote "seriously" was a Sonic Adventure fanfic. It has disappeared from the internet and I am glad. The best thing I've ever written was just a few weeks ago. It was a movie review for a Canadian indie film called "The Wild Hunt". It has been published this month. My point is that, we all have to start somewhere, but never just give up. After all, it's not like people have to read your worst stuff.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Ugh, Soti. 
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. 

    It's not very fun to do something if you fucking suck at doing it.

    But you won't b doing the same thing. That's the purpose of the exercise I gave you above. You would soon learn to pull out the key aspects of an object that make it recognizable, without going overboard in description, but keeping enough in to build a picture in the reader's head.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    edited 2011-07-18 10:53:05
    RE-ANIMATOR
    ^^ What?
    I write anti-porn.
    It is like porn... but designed to kill boners rather than make them.  ^_^
    Same rules apply... mostly.  O'course if you want to be really good at annoying sexually frustrated people, you've gotta be an experienced troll.... but still. I'm a terrible writer, a terrible artist, and pretty much a terrible person by anyone's account (reasons vary) ... but winding people up is a superpower that I can't switch off, so sometimes I capitalise on it.
  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-07-18 10:52:40
    [tɕagɛn]
    Why should I even waste the time at getting better? There are people vastly better at writing here than me --the main reason I quit--and it's not fun when you fucking suck at something. I don't why people think it's fun. And I've always fucking sucked at writing. And now, I have finally decided to stop lying to myself and put it behind me, no matter how I don't want to. 

    The towel has been thrown in. 

    This story is over.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    edited 2011-07-18 10:53:48
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    You can't be the best! Which is the reason Ash has been on his Pokemon journey for over ten years. The best you can be is the best you can be happy with.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Oh Chagen... =(

    Cheer up.
    Really... try writing pr0n (or anti-pr0n) ....
    It is cathartic!
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "The best you can be is the best you can be happy with."

    WHich is was, "the best in the whole world". I am never satisfied with how my skills are.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    "The best in the world" is far too subjective. 
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    ^Exactly! Which is why I said "The best you can be is the best you can be happy with."
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Why should I even waste the time at getting better? There are people vastly better at writing here than me --the main reason I quit--and it's not fun when you fucking suck at something. I don't why people think it's fun. And I've always fucking sucked at writing. And now, I have finally decided to stop lying to myself and put it behind me, no matter how I don't want to. 

    -sigh-

    J.K.Rowling is not the best writer in the world, and yet she created a seven-book series set in a vivid world that captured the hearts of millions of children.

    J.R.R.Tolkien is not the best writer in the world and yet his name is known worldwide as an example of incredible worldbuilding and the creator of the iconic High Fantasy epic saga.

    There is a lot more to writing than 'being the best'. If you can't see that, maybe quitting writing is for the best.
  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    I am reminded of the first US Pokemon theme now.
  • ChagenChagen
    edited 2011-07-18 11:08:47
    [tɕagɛn]
    "J.K.Rowling is not the best writer in the world, and yet she created a seven-book series set in a vivid world that captured the hearts of millions of children.

    J.R.R.Tolkien is not the best writer in the world and yet his name is known worldwide as an example of incredible worldbuilding and the creator of the iconic High Fantasy epic saga."

    What does that have to do with anything?

    "There is a lot more to writing than 'being the best'. If you can't see that, maybe quitting writing is for the best."

    There's no point to anything if you're not at least aiming to be the greatest there ever was.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Yes there is.

    You can strive to be better without striving to be the best.
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