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Write whats meaningful to you. If that means focusing on your 'original' stories then more power to you. But that doesnt make it wrong if someone wants to write something you deem to be 'low art'. Myself, I always try to keep pushing on things I'm not good at. Including romance, because despite...

Does this only go for stories that have been posted? Or are you looking at stories that havent been posted yet (i.e. through google drive or somesuch)?

While I am not a person who would ever read nor write romance for my own reasons, this seems like a pretty bad mentality to approach writing from. Very, very few of us are Marcus Aurelius, people read him because of his historical significant more than anything. Approaching all creative ventures...

Far too often. Even to the point of absurdity. Sometimes several times in a day even though I rarely get even a single more view in that timeframe.

My relatives are generally somewhat supportive. My father in particular had author friends when I was a kid and even took me to meet them sometimes, so he's always been supportive of my writing. My mother isnt quite so much, she does support me writing but whenever she actually reads it she's...

So the magic coming back will be a huge upset in the balance of power for the world, kind of closer to the 'suddenly getting magic' answer but not necessarily all the way on that side. Not every pony will get magic but a lot of them will, and then when the aristocracy tries to get the situation...

man, it is honestly a treat just to have someone even a little interested in my worldbuilding, haha. It means a lot to me. The aristocracy hoarding magic thing would be... Hrm. Not super early in terms of word count I suppose, in that theres quite a bit that happens first. But in terms of the...

Ha, I'm on stimulants already. I can't take too much though, I just end up too restless to focus on anything. Pure energy leaves me with hyperfixations on random things, and the random things are never writing. Having any perspective is helpful honestly. So, regarding the 'in other media magic...

Man, before I respond to the meat of your message, I just want to say that I appreciate you taking the time to write up this long and thought out of a response. I've been having a truly awful day and just having someone take the time to critically think about my problem honestly means the world...

Problem is by the time that I realize theres a problem I'm already in too deep. Well, okay, I was trying to talk in more generalizations in this thread. But I think to be clear I need to delve somewhat into the specifics of this specific time that triggered me writing this thread. But this is...

I generally like writing stories that are about a lot of different things, and often have several different protagonists. When one plot thread or arc starts to conflict with another and I'm pulled in a bunch of directions at once is when I get problems. I find myself having lots of compelling...

Its not so much coming up with ideas thats the hard part, so much as getting them to gel together properly. Inevitably when developing ideas, I'll end up eventually finding contradictions, and can't seem to find a way to get them to work. Now you could suggest taking the ideas and finding a new...

The impossibility of getting anyone to talk to me about stories that only I care about is wearing me thin, and I'm finding myself wondering how other people deal with it. I feel like I can't figure things out without anyone to talk to or bounce ideas off of but since I'm literally the only...

all my awesome ideas are being worked on, but that doesnt mean its fast. I tend to cram several ideas into one story to have a reasonable chance of getting to them. I used to be more like you, avoiding ideas that would upset me, but I eventually decided that true art must come frst and to make...

Depends onf the fight scene. Sometimes its kinda comedic, focusing on timing and a kinda slapsticky description of action. That tends to have a lot of one-liners (whether dialogue or just sentences on their own), and doesnt last too long so it wont wear out its welcome. Sometimes its more...

Well as they say you miss 100% of shots you don't take... So here I go, I'll try and promote Immaculate! Immaculate is a high fantasy character drama, it has some adventure and action bits but its overwhelmingly mostly a character drama. The main characters are a pair of siblings growing up in...

Well like I said, my pony stories do okay. And those are fanfic. I think Empire of Mercy literally has like two orders of magnitude more reads than Immaculate (On fimfiction, not here, it has almost nothing here), despite honestly being a far weaker story overall. I can't complain too much, I...

In Immaculate at least, theres a divine barrier around the mountain valley where the only as-of-yet known settlement is located. The more powerful something is, the harder it is to get through the barrier. So on rare occassion they get random wolves or maybe even a lesser shadowspawn, but...

Y'all are getting readers? I've been posting for more than a year and I think I got like, one comment. And that comment was just about how nobody commented or read it.... Things go better with pony words, at least. I have a decent following on fimfic. But on original fiction sites? Yeah...

Ambitious, bloodthirsty, and principled! Something like an anti-villain. Protagonists who just ascribe towards the status quo are boring. ...Oh, also siblings. Always siblings. Siblings are cute.