Why did you create your stories? And what motivates you to continue?

[ignova]

I wrote my latest story because I wanted to read something that didn't exist yet. It came out of some covid hobbies, and weird dreams.

 

[Staag]

I wanted to show off my drawings lmao

 

[Isometric]

About a year ago, I had an amazing idea for a novel. The only way for it to actually exist was for me to write it, so I started writing.

I spent weeks creating a massive, very detailed outline, but when I started writing the first chapter, I realized that my writing was far too terrible to do the idea justice. Instead of bricking the idea with my bad writing, I decided to come up with another idea and write a practice novel first.

My next idea was also too good to ruin, but I eventually hit on an idea that I was okay potentially destroying with bad writing, which is the novel I'm writing right now. Don't get me wrong, I love my current novel and think the story's great. It's just far simpler and more generic of an idea than the others, which seemed perfect for a practice novel.

My goal is to eventually become a good enough writer that I can turn my first two ideas into the amazing novels that they deserve to be.

 

[ScarletWeeb]

As you can read from my name, I'm an NTR addict and that's what motivated me.

I've always read all kinds of stories that have this theme, be it netori (stealing other people's wives), netorase (sharing one's own wife) and netorare (having one's own wife stolen) and these stories had something in common: They were always short and most authors abandoned them after 5, 10 or 15 chapters. This really irritated me because I wanted to know how the story continued but it was abandoned and that was it.

So I decided to write my own story to see what it's like on the other side. And I realized that it's very difficult. I must have started at the beginning of 2024 and since then I've written 120k words and 50 chapters. (I only recently started migrating my story from another platform to here).

So I realized that it's very difficult to write, the scenes are sometimes not clear, the ideas may not appear right away. Sometimes you think of something that is brilliant but then realize it is crap. Sometimes you create plot holes and when you try to solve them you create even more holes. It is very difficult, but I still keep posting new chapters.

Today my motivation is to create a story that someone can read and think "This is it. Finally something that hasn't been abandoned and has some quality".

And you, what motivates you and why did you start?

MONEY. POTENTIAL MONEY.

and the fact that If I became successful, I will have some proof of something I built, something I created. A mark left by me even after I fade away.

 

[Alfir]

The power of love

 

[CharlesEBrown]

The power of love

So, don't need money, don't need fame, don't need a credit card to ride this train?

 

[Garolymar]

Coz there is one scene in it i want to write, and it's fuckin awesome.

This is painfully accurate to my situation. The first thing I imagined was the ending, and now I've gotta figure out a way to get there, and then along the way more cool scenes pop into my head.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

This is painfully accurate to my situation. The first thing I imagined was the ending, and now I've gotta figure out a way to get there, and then along the way more cool scenes pop into my head.

Back in high school, I found a friend's copy of "X-Men/Teen Titans" one day when we were waiting to get something started (not sure if it was waiting for another friend to show up so we could head out, or for everyone to get characters done for a game or what) never got far into the story - got sucked into the introduction the authors and artists put together. Was especially impressed by how Claremont and Byrne worked - they tossed out a rough idea, then each came up with scenes, either ones Claremont wanted to see visualized or that Byrne wanted to draw, then worked together to get those scenes on the page. That done, then they would do their own thing to try to connect those major plot points, with a lot of revisions in between usually (occasionally they both had the same idea and didn't need that much revision). I got the impression Perez and Wolfman worked roughly the same way but spent more time discussing first.
I'd never known anyone but myself who wrote that way and was kind of obsessed with following all of them for a while as a result.

 

[soupsabaw]

My first book, which is still being published, was created for experience! I wanted to push myself and see what I could do and write when it came to my own original stories since I grew up writing fanfiction as practice. There was the test to see how I created characters, relationships, situations, scenes, etc. I think it's important to throw a test novel out there that isn't for quality sake but as a test, like taking tests at the beginning of a school year so that the teachers can get an idea of where their students stand.