I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?
Not here - but then I had people tell me how hard writing was, how impossible it was to make a living at it (they seem right on that point), etc.
And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing - whenever I don't have one of my own, I steal borrow one from somewhere else and just keep chugging along.
Writing novel is easy, completing it? Not so much. Sometimes, the universe tell us to stop. It will show us signs the path we take is not the correct one.
Not here - but then I had people tell me how hard writing was, how impossible it was to make a living at it (they seem right on that point), etc.
And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing - whenever I don't have one of my own, I steal borrow one from somewhere else and just keep chugging along.
The exhausted part is very real but running out of ideas doesn't happen (or won't for the remainder of my life, which is likely another decade or so).
I used to be the regular game master in RPGs so always had to have an idea ready, even if it wasn't my own idea to start with, and that taught me to look for story ideas everywhere, even when a player not a GM.
Hope is not a plan, and dreams are not professions. If hope and dreams are all you've got for motivation and method, you're bound to become frustrated and burnt out. Dreams don't pay the rent.
For now, that is not my issue yet, what becomes my problem is when implementing that idea itself into my writing. For me, hunting ideas is easy, I only need to make use of the human civilization that has existed for thousands of years, and within it lie millions of stories as references to be cracked from their shells, as we know, History.
For me, it's exhaustion.
And when that happens, I rest. But if I still am not getting over it, I either tweak the plot or introduce a new character.
Something different from my original plan always got my brain back on track.
the thing about writing stories is that one should not get into it for the sake of earning money or fame, even though it isn't really the case in this post.
it's already a competitive market, even for anything you posted here or on Royal Road (especially if you're competing with others that has Amazon Kindle contract for a long time)
My advice is to treat writing as a hobby or if you have something that really needs to be poured down onto texts, be it stories, satires or even direct critics to your government, it doesn't matter.
Hobbies can stall depending on whether you don't feel like going into it or had things to settle in life. And it's okay.
My advice is to treat writing as a hobby or if you have something that really needs to be poured down onto texts, be it stories, satires or even direct critics to your government, it doesn't matter.
I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?
Instead of Ideas, I lost motivation when I write long novels. I'm practicing with a Pokemon fanfic, it's based on my interest in Research so my gas won't run out anytime soon but I hope I get to be disciplined during this period of time
I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?
I planned my novel, so I didn't have that problem.
What I encountered, however, is the common problems of authors whose English isn't their native tongue. I wrote with weird words and sentence construction too much that I ended stopping coz writing ain't for me.
I planned my novel, so I didn't have that problem.
What I encountered, however, is the common problems of authors whose English isn't their native tongue. I wrote with weird words and sentence construction too much that I ended stopping coz writing ain't for me.
Hey sis, I am also prepared my mind until I made a big mistake in ending with the trial schedulement. But I also made some backup with my small project. If nobody likes it, it's okay as those are my baits to give me more time of thinking and writing(Maybe)
I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?
Not really - at least not for me, so it already can't be a general thing anymore, as it doesn't affect everyone. I have so many ideas, I know I will never be able to tell them all, especially not at my current pace, but even if I did write a bit more efficiently.
As a writer, I have myriad of problems - running out of ideas has never been one of them.
There's a certain kind of writer who writes an establishing scene and then writes episodic stories until they run out of them. If profession obligates them like in the case of Ranma ½ then when they run out of ideas or are canceled by executives for poor performance, they'll write a weak ending that answers the initial question of the show, without really considering all that happened in between. Without shareholders to appease, they'll abandon the project without ceremony.
Personally, I don't care for that. I actively avoid incomplete stories on scribblehub because I don't trust their writer to finish them. To me, a perpetually unanswered question is an act of intentional malice, designed to keep me coming back for what usually turns out to be a disappointing answer when they finally deign to reveal their lore. And I decided that if I'm going to write something, I better know how it ends before I start. As for how that's going… well stay tuned because the debts of my foreshadowing just came due.
If I never write a longform story again after this, well at least I'll have ended on my terms.
I've been given similar suggestions before, but you underestimate the Filipinos' love for reading, or rather, the lack of it.
Yes, there may be market for Filipino novels, mainly Wattpad-like stories, consumed mostly by females, written mostly by females. And many of them come from upper-middle class families who have access and TIME to read online. For me, whose students come from public schools? They'd rather spend their money on food and other necessities, or tire themselves following TikTok trends, than give time to read books, or what I wrote.
Someone even said I 'create' my path/way, suggesting I do something like Mark Twain or other established authors did, like found my publishing house, or teach students the love for reading. A noble idea, but with our economic situation back here, it's close to impossible, especially if you're alone in your advocacy.
Addendum: Now, if some random Flip would contest my claims here, lemme tell you I've been forced to 'volunteer' in the ARAL Program--the Philippine Department of Education's flagship program to help Filipino students improve their literacy. And I'd say now, I love books and reading, but the months I was there were PURE HELL. I was on the front lines trying to help the failing Philippine education; you're not.
