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SLAYING SARAAAA ✨✨ posted an update 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I find it very entertaining that some of you on here have written several projects since we met. And then there’s me, who has been working on the SAME BOOK since I joined, somehow without any side quests lol
Don’t worry about it. 🙂 One of my pet projects has been a thing since 2020, through all my teen years. It’s not that big of a deal.
And if you wanted to try a sidequest without getting too distracted, I highly recommend writing short stories! They clean your creative palette if you’re stuck.
My problem is that my brain loves creating complex backstories and plots and just developing and overthinking what I have so far XDXD I love exploring a story from every angle I possibly can, which, I think, is why I have a history of changing all my projects WAYYY too much without ever finishing a draft loll
Maybe I’ll try to write one…though for some reason I’ve always hated writing short stories with a passion 💔😥 i should honestly just force myself to write one, since I might be better at it than I think XDXD
Reimagining and deepening backstories to the point of overwhelming yourself… relatable. XD I have a hard time limiting the scope, if that makes sense. My biggest strength is tying stuff together with characters, so the world could not be explored to the same depth with any other characters besides the protagonists. But sometimes it feels like there’s too much.
Luckily for us, most writers are in the same boat. There’s nowhere to go but up.
Maybe you just haven’t read any short stories that clicked with you! I like taking inspiration and writing from there. But they are annoying to write in the moment, 100%. 😂
Like right now I am dying over this short story draft. I can’t figure out the characters for the life of me; there’s an extra dimension I’m missing. Idk, maybe I’m expecting too much from only one week of writing them.