woah old art redraw
i firmly believe that the best piece of writing advice i could ever give someone is “you can’t have everything you want in your story.” if you implement ALL your ideas into one story, you risk losing good writing. because a lot of the time, the “lore” or whatever doesn’t match up with each idea, or it becomes too clustered. a good example of this is everything vivziepop writes. she tries to get all her cool ideas into one story, and so it comes off feeling like a bad fanfiction of a better story (pacing issues, continuity errors, too many characters, etc). this isn’t me hating on viv, it’s me trying to get you to learn from her mistakes. i believe her stories have genuinely decent qualities that get overshadowed by the bad stuff.
tldr; you need to sacrifice some of your ideas in order to make a story good (but you can always reuse them in other stories!).
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.
woop there it is
this movie is so fanartable
Killian or Michael|18|he/him|aspiring author/screenwriter
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