Have you ever...

[TheEldritchGod]

Come up with a great idea then said... This idea is awesome! For... the end of the book.

Then find yourself writing the rest of the story just to reach that idea, the whole time going, "I don't want to ruin the story by telling the cool idea early, but I REALLY want to share the cool idea!" to the point where you start to flounder?

 

[Jailbreak571]

Come up with a great idea then said... This idea is awesome! For... the end of the book.

Then find yourself writing the rest of the story just to reach that idea, the whole time going, "I don't want to ruin the story by telling the cool idea early, but I REALLY want to share the cool idea!" to the point where you start to flounder?

...
Yes, yes I am.

 

[Lire]

I relate to this on a spiritual level.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Yes.

 

[apexaltra]

Sounds like it's time for some sneaky foreshadowing

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Yes. The hard part is figuring out how to get there.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

Every. Single. Time.

"Fuck, this would be so cool!" I think to myself.

And yet it doesn't, and won't happen for the next two hundred chapters or so.

 

[Nhatduongg]

OMG Yes, and every time I would be going like how tf am I going to write that kind of epic build-up

 

[Zakuro]

Come up with a great idea then said... This idea is awesome! For... the end of the book.

And then the book become popular and the end don't happen until you run out of ideas.

 

[Avidya]

And then the book become popular and the end don't happen until you run out of ideas.

Ah, the Shounen problem.

When it's a cash cow and should have ended long ago, but ending the series would put an end to cash flow.