What motivated you to stop being a reader and write your own fiction?

[LesserCodex]

Because I couldn't find what I fucking wanted and decided to do it myself. And it's relaxing, but mostly doing it myself.

 

[Jerynboe]

It’s a lot harder to have a reliable schedule for hosting D&D when I have a child and most of my friends have moved away so as to afford home ownership or live with their new significant others. I’m not writing instead of reading. I’m writing instead of DMing.

 

[Chaos_Sinner777]

I got too into daydreaming my own setup in World Keeper, which lead me to go, "Hey I wanna build systems? Might as well actually try and do it."

 

[Deleted member 167438]

How bad the smut writing was. Made me realise, hell, I could make something better than this.

 

[Enkiari]

It was finding some of the worst written Yuri that was somehow popular and knowing I could do better.
Which I did.

 

[V8485]

I was reading a bunch of manwha isekai and watching a good sum as well. I went nuts after reading the same thing and watching the same things over and over again, so I finally broke. I opened Google Docs and typed up around a few hundred words and uploaded it to Wattpad and then Royal Roads.

Now six months later I'm forty-five chapters deep and still going...

Also, I never once read a web novel.

 

[LightHikari]

I love stories, so I wanted to tell my own. I managed to finish it, and I liked it enough to write another one.

 

[Golden_Hyde]

burned out from fanfiction as well as feeling that it's time for me to do something new, so I did by making myself original stories. I think I've done it once 14 years ago as a freshman in high school, but it's pretty short, though at least it's original, written in my country's lingua franca

 

[NotaNuffian]

Out of smack to snore.

 

[expentio]

I think a strong influence was how disappointed I was about the second twist in "I'm a Spider, so What?"
For those who know/don't mind the spoiler:

Spoiler

The first is that the world is basically a soul battery to prevent some form of cataclysm, which is why all beings in this world get to kill each other to be reborn, again and again.
The second was that the MC was never one of the humans brought into this world, but the spider in the classroom, who merged with a bait divinity of the deity who was the reason the classroom exploded.

I felt so betrayed back then. Like the one point of the novel was suddenly erased.
After that, I was quite often disappointed by how non-human MCs were handled in stories, or how things developed with their characters (aside from Core .001, that one's been nice, but discontinued), but had this story in my head.
So I wrote it down in English, which helped me gain enough emotional distance to overcome the sense of exposure, and eventually released it.

 

[Author_Riceball]

Me: When a reader is too bored of reading hundreds of fictions with similar tropes, where only the protagonist/antagonist identity is changed, but the core story remains the same, he/she might "rebel" by writing his/her own fiction as a "subversion" or writing fiction that aligns with his/her conscience (even if it means differing from the mainstream tropes).

You may have other motivations. Please share your thoughts. Thank you.

I literally became mentally incapable of reading all other novels because I was too picky and my standards were too high.

 

[AmbreaTaddy]

I was stuck in a house without any electricity or any real enjoyment, and was really bored. Thankfully, what I had were a lot of paper and a few pens. I then started writing to pass time, and wrote my first novel that way, in two weeks.

It was years ago, though, I didn't have a portable phone or a laptop, I don't think it's possible to have 0 distractions nowadays

 

[empalgepuk]

What I want is not yet covered much, and I don't think only searching around will get me anywhere.

So I do what I can.

 

[Anarchy666]

I honestly can't even remember, I started writing at 16 because I always had an imagination and had all these story/film/video game ideas and I must've thought "I don't have access to these things? Oh well, least I can do is put it down in writing"

 

[crmsn_conqueror]

Being directly challenged by the main character of a light novel series about writing light novels.

That is a revolutionary concept

 

[Jianzheng1w]

I like thinking about other worlds and taking things to their logical conclusion, even if the logic leads down a dark path.

 

[CinnaSloth]

I want to explore what happens when babies do happen in these isekai environments, and how that will change things, how I can develop my MC to balance becoming a father with whatever else is happening.

OH hey, that's my story! Except, they are demon children, and my character is constantly being murdered. lol Nothing to do with isekais though.

2.) Money

 

[MFontana]

A friend of mine back in high school was working on a story based on our TTRPG campaigns, and let me beta-read it.
That was when I first figured I could give it a try as well, and started writing my first piece of general fiction.
I still have some of the old drafts backed up on my google-drive (for posterity's sake) as well, and I've been working on-and-off on a number of little projects since then. Mostly fan-fiction stuff for my friend group. Some collaborations, and a short story I shared a few years ago on Wattpad that was fairly well-received as a short-story.

The rest of it was mostly adventures and campaigns for my TTRPG group.

 

[DismaiNaim]

Me: When a reader is too bored of reading hundreds of fictions with similar tropes, where only the protagonist/antagonist identity is changed, but the core story remains the same, he/she might "rebel" by writing his/her own fiction as a "subversion" or writing fiction that aligns with his/her conscience (even if it means differing from the mainstream tropes).

You may have other motivations. Please share your thoughts. Thank you.

Watching Netflix

 

[HarryGarland]

It started when AI like ChatGPT and Deepseek came around. I started playing CYOA with it, the experience was either hit or miss. Then, a story from my secondary school days came back. And I thought, hey, maybe these can help me as I'm not confident in writing good prose like Rowling or Tolkien. With AI, I wrote my first novel The Luminance Prince. I love the prose (initially...). It's on RR, not here. During the journey, I began to process my own stuff through writing, albeit with AI. And that's how I came to write.

PS: B4 AI haters come after me with pitchforks, I'd like to say that I'm weaning myself from it. I came across another story online whose voice sounds exactly like mine (it screams ChatGPT everywhere). Horrifying. I'm writing my stories myself now, with flaws and simple prose, because I want to have my own voice.