Something you 100% believe in author do but dont admit

[AncestorDuck]

I'll go first: 80% of 'plot twists/foreshadowing' is just authors reusing fan theories.

 

[Valmond]

Authors secretly make Roast Duck without mentioning it in their stories.

 

[ShrimpShady]

A lot of conventional writing advice doesn't matter that much and was made up to sell courses and workshops. Like, filter words? Adverbs? Who cares. Open up a classic book and you'll see a bunch of them. 3-act structure? Never heard of it. The characters of the novels I like just bullshit their time away doing random stuff until the end.

I watched a writing advice video talking about how you should tackle themes by thinking of them as one single question instead of a more broad idea, which pissed me the hell off. A lot of the stories I love don't fit into that.

 

[AncestorDuck]

Authors secretly make Roast Duck without mentioning it in their stories.

It's always you! Do I know? Did this duck somehow offend you?

 

[Corty]

Most authors don't know what they want to do with their story and MC; they just have a starting idea, and that's all.

 

[Deleted member 266]

Most authors don't know what they want to do with their story and MC; they just have a starting idea, and that's all.

Pretty much that.

What's more, one learns to write mainly by reading, and I think a lot of WN/LN authors only read WN/LN. And because a lot WN/LN either never ends, or they get dropped, a lot of writers just don't know how to write endings, because it's just not in their literary diet.

That's my opinion anyway.

 

[Corty]

a lot of writers just don't know how to write endings, because it's just not in their literary diet

And I would want to strangle those authors until they have a vision of what an ending is like so that when I drag them back to consciousness, they will know how to end their story.

 

[PancakesWitch]

no actually I already had all the plot twists planned and my readers guessed them ahead of time, but I didnt want to change them. though their versions aren't 100% accurate

 

[cabbag3]

The curtain were fcking blue!

 

[Arkus86]

Most authors don't know what they want to do with their story and MC; they just have a starting idea, and that's all.

You can quite often see this clearly, in stories that start strong, but soon get distracted by any random idea, often changing the overall tone or even the direction of the story on a whim.

 

[CodeCrisis]

I'll go first: 80% of 'plot twists/foreshadowing' is just authors reusing fan theories.

You know, I used to have a fanfic on Wattpad where the readers made up their own theory on a couple of the characters, which was 100x better than what I was going to come up with.

 

[AncestorDuck]

You know, I used to have a fanfic on Wattpad where the readers made up their own theory on a couple of the characters, which was 100x better than what I was going to come up with.

The readers are your teacher

 

[Hoshino]

That they are homosexual or worship ducks.

 

[AncestorDuck]

That they are homosexual or worship ducks.

I dont remember accepting you in my pack? And what do you mean with "monarch"? You dare?????

 

[Hoshino]

I dont remember accepting you in my pack? And what do you mean with "monarch"? You dare?????

Notice: Young one, i have reincarnated as a duck.

 

[AncestorDuck]

Notice: Young one, i have reincarnated as a duck.

Bow down to me, and I might leave the title "monarch" to you. Im no longer a mortal, afterall.

 

[Hoshino]

Bow down to me, and I might leave the title "monarch" to you. Im no longer a mortal, afterall.

Another Notice: O you foolish one, please keep your boundaries-nya.

 

[AncestorDuck]

Another Notice: O you foolish one, please keep your boundaries-nya.

nya? A cat will awalys be a cat. You think you can become a duck, just because you jumped into the river of reincarnation?

 

[Hoshino]

nya? A cat will awalys be a cat. You think you can become a duck, just because you jumped into the river of reincarnation?

Notice: I am just a victim-nya.I have reincarnated countless times and being a duck is just kind mid,however, that doesn't mean I'm not absolute-nya.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Authors secretly make Roast Duck without mentioning it in their stories.

Only because the rabbit talked them out of hasenpfeffer....

Pretty much that.

What's more, one learns to write mainly by reading, and I think a lot of WN/LN authors only read WN/LN. And because a lot WN/LN either never ends, or they get dropped, a lot of writers just don't know how to write endings, because it's just not in their literary diet.

That's my opinion anyway.

I suspect a lot of WN/LN authors (Myself possibly included) got their start reading comic books/Manga (and the more recent Korean and Chinese "flavors"), which used to have episodic endings but now sometimes don't even have story arc endings (Thanks Chris Claremont!).