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[iWonder]

I finished writing a story, I would love. It if you read it.
Username: Machenza
Story link: Here.
It is in need of editing. So if you see a typo or see any other errors or suggestions please tell me what page and chapter. And maybe the sentance it is in so I can fix it.

Thank you.

[Rolly-chan]

I'm having some trouble with my story, so I've got to ask: does this ever seem completely impossible to any of y'all? I just wrote out a little "to do" list of things I need to figure out before I can really start writng my novel, and there's just so much to do. I've got so many plot-holes it's crazy. And it's all so overwhelming I can't even begin to fix the problems.

Yes. XD

That's why you can't think about it. You just gotta tackle it one thing at a time, and forget that it feels impossible. If you're having that many plot problems, why not scrap the plot completely, keeping only the most important themes, and your favorite scenes, and crafting a new plot around that? I have done that before, and usually things come out for the better. If they don't, just try, try again. ^^

I feel like that a lot when I'm planning novel-length stories, so you're definitely not alone.
I guess my brain is just not cut out for creating 90k+ word stories (though I love to read those the most, what irony! XD)
But I basically either do what Silverhart does - keep the central things and ones I love the most and redo the rest - or I just stop beating myself up about it and just write it one scene at a time, planning at the most two scenes ahead. That keeps my creativity up because there's nothing ahead that says "you can't do that because later you want XY to happen and that contradicts it!!!!!11".
It prevents me from ignoring awesome ideas just because I've already done so much work with planning and plotting. Though I usually do know the general gist of the plot, the beginning and ending, and a very vague idea of the middle.
For NaNo last year I wrote 50k words of a story where breaking curses is a big thing and even after those 50k words I still had no idea how breaking curses works in that world. I simply always put down "Character XY DID HIS MAGIC YO" as a placeholder for whatever they do to break curses XD I also had no idea how exactly I'll resolve the conflict at the end. I knew what I wanted to happen - but I didn't know how. I still wrote the thing up to that point (which, luckily, was just over 50k words), lol.
You can always come up with things later on. Or when you hit the place where you need to know it. Because believe it or not, but you don't need to know everything before writing.

[Meroei]

i'm a new member!
➹ OrangeNeon / Orange/ Current story is on paper./ Yup.

'Ello Orange!!

[Kylee Hart]

Could I have critiques please?

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[watermelon.]

Welcome everyone!

I"m at my cousins house today so I won't be on too much.

[watermelon.]

Question time!
Do you find it hard to write eating scenes?

[avaria]

Question time!
Do you find it hard to write eating scenes?

I find it really easy, honestly.
That could be because I'm a very picky eater and only eat a small variety of foods, so my characters usually only eat those foods.
And since I have those foods all the time, I'm pretty good at describing them and how they taste.

[iWonder]

I finished writing a story, I would love. It if you read it.
Username: Machenza
Story link: Here.
It is in need of editing. So if you see a typo or see any other errors or suggestions please tell me what page and chapter. And maybe the sentance it is in so I can fix it.

Thank you.

[䏠xote]

Question time!
Do you find it hard to write eating scenes?

not really, but most of my characters don't usually eat. i tend to write immortal characters (like vampires) who have no need for food.

[VesVes]

Not exactly. Most of my characters are animals, so all I have to do is research how a specific animal eats it's food, then go from there. It can get a bit gory where the carnivores (which pretty much all of my animal characters are) are concerned, but I never meant it as a children's story anyway.