🍽️ حلال Connor Bible - Everyone's Favorite Molly Ringwald loving, adoption hating, aspiring writer and bellybutton fucker

[CatParty]

I'm too fucking hard on myself. If I were to just suspend my disbelief for a moment, I could do something.

That's the last thing you want to do. Face reality.

 

[MysticMisty]

Also, I try to stay away from outlines; they're too rigid and lack the spontaneity of solving the mystery along with the protagonist.

Just because you have an outline doesn't mean you have to follow it exactly. Sometimes new characters and subplots present themselves and you find a way to work it in, give your story some added flavor. Other times it's the opposite, subplots and characters that you had in mind that have fallen flat and are cut out (particularly in later drafts). Just as long as you reach the end you more or less intend for. What you're describing though sounds like writing something that hasn't had the end figured out yet so you're just going to wing it and see what happens, which I don't think is a very good way to do it.

 

[Connor Bible]

I meant disbelief in myself and my capabilities. If I said to myself, "I can write a short story", and believed I could do it, just ONCE, I may produce something.

 

[CatParty]

I meant disbelief in myself and my capabilities. If I said to myself, "I can write a short story", and believed I could do it, just ONCE, I may produce something.

Believe in yourself

 

[Connor Bible]

Believe in yourself

That's exactly what I'm saying!

 

[Aquinas]

I meant disbelief in myself and my capabilities. If I said to myself, "I can write a short story", and believed I could do it, just ONCE, I may produce something.

Dont believe in yourself. believe in me that believes in you.

Spoiler

I dont believe in you though

 

[Innocuous]

@Connor Bible, you are welcome to stay here for as long as you like. Please enjoy your stay.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

I believe in Connor and think he should believe in himself and write a great screenplay for Molly Ringwald like if you agree.

 

[Innocuous]

I'm too fucking hard on myself. If I were to just suspend my disbelief for a moment, I could do something.

Then fucking do it. I believe in you, Connor.

 

[Marvin]

Would you just take it easy?

Address the content of his post.

Someone has their panties in a bundle.

Address what she said.

 

[AnOminous]

Write porn of Molly Ringwald.

 

[BOLDYSPICY!]

I didn't say I would stop writing. I usually get about a hundred words in a day. I'm so wrapped up in school and other shit that I hardly find the time. But I guess that's no excuse either. I'm legitimately shaking in my shoes and choking when I have Word open. I start sweating. My thoughts race. As a result, I can barely put a word down. The fact I could even put down a hundred words, let alone fifty, is a miracle.

Well, I want to keep writing and get better while doing so. I have ten short stories in progress, as well as two novels. Completely abandoning the hobby isn't a good idea. I can find another hobby when I lack the mental energy to write.

Fiction is an entirely different ballpark. I mentioned that I have to get myself into a trance, step into the characters shoes for a bit, and forget I even exist. Even with first drafts, I obsess over minutiae, in both characters and scene details. Also, I try to stay away from outlines; they're too rigid and lack the spontaneity of solving the mystery along with the protagonist.

I can kinda get this. I love art, but sometimes it feels like too much work. So I dick around on the Farms, talk to my friends, play some vidya, do a lolcow game review or two, listen to some music, whatever. Then I get back to work. I mean, you've seen a lot of the stuff I've done just in this thread, right? It's because I love art.

But you don't seem to like writing at all. So why do you keep forcing yourself to do it?

 

[r00]

It's not going to be a multi-million dollar epic, or anything like that. Maybe a few million could be put into it, but that's about it.

What is your understanding of the word "multi"?

lol. Your optimism never fails to make me smile.

Also, 100 words a day is not even worth mentioning. This post has 109 words and it only took 2 minutes. Maybe you should force yourself to write like at least 1000 words a day, just to push yourself. They dont even have to be all that relevant or usable. 100 words is maybe half a rung above doing nothing on the ladder of success.

 

[VLAD]

Well, I want to keep writing and get better while doing so. I have ten short stories in progress, as well as two novels. Completely abandoning the hobby isn't a good idea. I can find another hobby when I lack the mental energy to write.

If the act of writing itself is giving you panic attacks, you should not be trying to write.

 

[SP 199]

What stage of the cycle we at? Emo Connor?

 

[Smutley]

the NFL hates "bibles" and "god" so you have to be Connor Bibble for now

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

@Phil Ken Sebben : I'm taking two classes at my college, going four days a week.

Oh you poor poor man taking that many courses. I really feel for you being there on campus all day long for those four days, slaving away as you do only to go home at night to work on your coursework. How inconsiderate of me.

Well, that's what I'd say if I wasn't laughing so hard. When I was going to college, my first semester I was taking six courses PLUS working semi-full time. I only say semi because there were weeks where I couldn't make it. I was lucky that my boss understood and was willing to work around my schedule. I was able to pay for my schooling and rent on a crappy apartment without having to go into too much student debt. I didn't have any free time and get this, one of those courses was a creative writing course. You had to write a short story just to be accepted into the course.

Yeah two courses, maybe what... two hours at a time meaning you're there for eight hours in total? Try being there from 8 in the morning until 9 at night because some of the courses you have are only offered at night. That was my Monday. Luckily my GF lived just off campus so there were afternoons between classes that I'd crash there. More than once I'd spend the night because I was too wiped to make it back to my place.

Both course involve a lot of academic writing and studying.

And? Every course has a lot of studying and writing. It's college. You're supposed to do a lot of studying and writing.

My immediate family doesn't believe there are any jobs out there for me, and would rather I completed college before I look for one.

Have you looked? I mean you personally have you looked? Even something part time on the weekends or after class, you know how kids did it in high school? You can sponge off your Grandmother for a while but she's probably on a fixed and limited income. Don't you think it would be better if you actually contributed financially to the household?

What you also have to understand is that life does not stop and start at the convenience of writing, or college, or potentially, employment. Even with all of that going on, shit will happen.

I've said it before, we don't write because we want to be rich or famous. We don't write because others expect it of us. We don't write because it's something we want to do. We write because we need to do it. We write because there's a story, or many stories, inside of us that are asking to be released.

But that doesn't mean that the world gets put on hold just because you can't be bothered to actually step away from the keyboard and actually do something. You need to find that balance between your writing and real life. Carry a notebook around with you if it helps to jot down those ideas when you get them. But if it takes you an hour to write a hundred words then maybe writing really isn't your thing and you're just using this as an excuse not to actually do something with your life.

I have mentioned that my grandmother is very ill. She could potentially be dead in the next two years. If she were to die while I were at work/on campus/writing, I can't just say "c'est la vie" and keep at it.

Yeah that would suck and all, but if your Grandmother needs 24 hour round the clock care then she shouldn't be living on her own especially if writing and two courses take up so much of your time that you can't take care of her. All this is really telling me is that you're not serious about writing. It's a convenient excuse and you're using it, much like only taking two courses, to avoid actual responsibilities.

But please. Prove me wrong. I'm begging you. Show me that you're actually serious about writing and not just wasting everybody's time.

 

[Chicken Dippers]

Connor. Listen to the advice people are giving you. You're a young man, and quite frankly, I think most of us would rather you didn't throw your life away.

The points people are making here are GOOD points. For your own good, listen. Or I can guarantee you'll regret it.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

@Connor Bible I may have said this before in the thread but when I write, I don't start on the computer at all. Now I'm not at all what you'd call a writer nor am I particularly good, but I find that getting my ideas out in a notebook is much more helpful. I can see my thought process that way. I just get a shitty notebook and a shitty pen and write shit. When it's particularly shitty I just cross it out and rewrite it, and sometimes I go back to that original line. I can also draw an arrow pointing to another part of the story if I want to move a sentence somewhere else. When I do type it all up, I kind of edit as I go. Then I have the story in a mostly clean and organized document that I can edit again.

 

[Ruin]

Man what is it about Connor that makes everyone powerlevel and suck his dick so hard? Connor's never going to change and he's destined to end up as a whiny fat idiot who will leave behind a bloated cheese stuffed corpse as his only legacy.