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La Hire said:
I'm having serious writer's block after writing up a nice introduction for my low fantasy sword and sorcery (I'm not too sure what genres it would be) novel. I know where I want to take my novel, I know some of the steps, but most of it is murky and not coming to me like the introduction did. I've been stuck for several months now, even after many attempts at working through it, on other things, taking a break, etc. etc.

Have any of you had a serious case of writer's block like this?

I'm nervous about sharing what I have done because this is my first writing project since high school almost half a decade ago now and I really don't want my writing attached to my Farms account so it can be used to bite me in the ass later.
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Orson Scott Card says that writer's block is a sign that something is wrong with what you've already written and you should revise it before continuing.

Maybe that only works for some writers. My advice is try to write the novel's kickass climax you've probably had in your head for years, then go back to the start and work towards that moment.
 
La Hire said:
I'm having serious writer's block after writing up a nice introduction for my low fantasy sword and sorcery (I'm not too sure what genres it would be) novel. I know where I want to take my novel, I know some of the steps, but most of it is murky and not coming to me like the introduction did. I've been stuck for several months now, even after many attempts at working through it, on other things, taking a break, etc. etc.

Have any of you had a serious case of writer's block like this?
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I would get seriously trashed by writers for suggesting this, but sometimes AI like Claude or Sudowrite is really good at helping people get out of writer's block.

It can be expensive though.
 
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This is a bit of sperging but holy shit I am so fucking annoyed at this and I keep seeing it everywhere and of course every fucking online resource about it is scrubbed because of modern political bullshit.

"They" is not a determinate pronoun when used as substitute for a singular, gender neutral subject. In proper English it is ONLY used this way when speaking about a indeterminate subject. For example: "When the customer enters, they will see the sign directing them to the counter." In this case, "they" is appropriate because the customer could be male or female. If it is known that the customer will always be one or the other, the appropriate he/she should be used instead. Using "they" for a known, determinate singular subject is not fucking proper grammar and I am sick to death of seeing retarded Millenial/GenZ faggots using it that way.

It's bad enough that these stupid enby fucks try to crybully people into it, but I'm increasingly seeing it in used writing for male and female characters where it's already known that the character is male/female. It makes quickly reading shit impossible half the time because you're never sure exactly what the writer is referring to due to how much they're overloading a single pronoun constantly (note the proper use of "they" in this sentence). An actual fucking neopronoun would be more intelligible because at least that has a definite (if retarded) meaning that's easy to determine.

English has a singular, determinate, gender-neutral pronoun: IT.
If you have some kind of weird non-gendered alien, it is an "it".
If you're speaking about a misty figure that's hard to make out, it is an "it". (When speaking about the figure itself)
If you're writing about a robot that isn't somehow sexed, it is an "it".

No, it's not offensive or dehumanizing, you're just a pussy. Fuck I hate progressivism. Stop mangling my language.
 
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AngryAboutInternets said:
'This is a bit of sperging but holy shit I am so fucking annoyed at this and I keep seeing it everywhere and of course every fucking online resource about it is scrubbed because of modern political bullshit.

"They" is not a determinate pronoun when used as substitute for a singular, gender neutral subject. In proper English it is ONLY used this way when speaking about a indeterminate subject. For example: "When the customer enters, they will see the sign directing them to the counter." In this case, "they" is appropriate because the customer could be male or female. If it is known that the customer will always be one or the other, the appropriate he/she should be used instead. Using "they" for a known, determinate singular subject is not fucking proper grammar and I am sick to death of seeing retarded Millenial/GenZ faggots using it that way...'
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Political retardation and it's consequences on modern writing.
 
I finally got a more solid basis for this thing I was going to start a few months ago. The title I'm going with (decided on a whim just now) is 'The Sixth Slice'. It's essentially a spiritual successor to this ol' pile of shit from however many years ago and since the other thing I was already slowly writing since the summer or thereabouts is amorphous enough anyway I'm just going to roll it into the new one in some capacity with minimal editing.
 
Pomniman said:
I finally got a more solid basis for this thing I was going to start a few months ago. The title I'm going with (decided on a whim just now) is 'The Sixth Slice'. It's essentially a spiritual successor to this ol' pile of shit from however many years ago and since the other thing I was already slowly writing since the summer or thereabouts is amorphous enough anyway I'm just going to roll it into the new one in some capacity with minimal editing.
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What I forgot to mention is where the first one was ostensibly about Ethan Ralph and Andy Warski, this one's going to "star" Jewsh in all his autistic cheese-grated "glory". Needless to say, it's not going to be flattering in the slightest. Shitposting it onto this subforum might get me banned (assuming that doesn't happen before I finish it) but the idea of that being a very real possibility makes the goal of posting it here all the more enticing/amusing to me.
 
Do you think AI opinions are reliable? I'm trying to write a novel, and I'm using AI to point out spelling mistakes and errors so I can manually correct them and get references to the historical period in which it's set. I've written 10 chapters and 250 A5 pages. It tells me it's going well, but can I really trust it?
 
Right... so, I've got some updates on my end about my current project that I've been chipping away at for a while; had to make some changes as to what I was writing, but honestly? I'm pretty satisfied so far.

For starters, the genre has changed a bit; I was originally going to be writing more of a "science fantasy" plotline, dealing with supernatural monsters and various cults trying to cause the end of the world, a bit like the World of Darkness - the main character was going to be a shapechanger himself, actually. Ironically, I ended up removing the fantasy parts*; found that they didn't actually contribute as much to the plot I wanted to tell, so I figured I'd save what ideas I had there for another storyline, focus more on the sci-fi for now. I also had to trim a LOT of plotlines from the story itself; got a pretty strict timetable, and it's pretty short, but I'm still happy.

As for the plot itself; as stated previously, I was going to be taking the piss out of nihilism and similar "current year" obsessions. Generally speaking, the "story" is a collection of police reports and musings from the main character about the various wokeshit groups that caused a global collapse... and how they inevitably imploded once they actually achieved the anarchy they desired. Yes, I am fully aware that writing a story entirely out of spite can lead to burnout; to be honest, my main reason for writing this wasn't political BS, more that I just really wanted to make a post-apocalypse storyline, and I found that woketards and similar worked great as antagonists for it, so... yeah.

Anyways... the main plotline itself is almost completely outlined, though I am going to be going back and fleshing out the intro; the story starts out In Media Res right now pretty heavily, so once I get these little plot bunnies out of my head, I'll be going back and giving a proper lead-up to the plot. I'm also debating on whether to add some extra plotlines after I get finished with the third (and last) case, but for now... I'll just focus on do what I can, whenever I can.

EDIT: I might also spend some time jotting down ideas for that fantasy story as well, once I get the above plot finished. I dunno; I've got very little time these days to write, usually stuck at work.

EDIT: *:Mostly. The current plot I've got is free from it, but there's a few scenes down the line that'll have supernatural elements. I'll explain in another post.
 
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Space Roman said:
Do you think AI opinions are reliable? I'm trying to write a novel, and I'm using AI to point out spelling mistakes and errors so I can manually correct them and get references to the historical period in which it's set. I've written 10 chapters and 250 A5 pages. It tells me it's going well, but can I really trust it?
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No but it functionally doesn't matter because if you need a machine to suck you your penis about how goodly yuor writing is in the first place the core problem is you have no confidence in your abilities and there's no quick or easy fix for that. More than anything technical or mechanical you have to learn to stop giving a shit because neuroticism is beaten into anyone who tries to write nowadays on an industrial scale and that makes most self-proclaimed writers insufferable queers.
 
Space Roman said:
Do you think AI opinions are reliable? I'm trying to write a novel, and I'm using AI to point out spelling mistakes and errors so I can manually correct them and get references to the historical period in which it's set. I've written 10 chapters and 250 A5 pages. It tells me it's going well, but can I really trust it?
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Pomniman said:
No but it functionally doesn't matter because if you need a machine to suck you your penis about how goodly yuor writing is in the first place the core problem is you have no confidence in your abilities and there's no quick or easy fix for that. More than anything technical or mechanical you have to learn to stop giving a shit because neuroticism is beaten into anyone who tries to write nowadays on an industrial scale and that makes most self-proclaimed writers insufferable queers.
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^This. Way I see it, the biggest hurdle to being a good writer is confidence; indecisiveness is a killer, just look at my struggles with character design on this thread!
 
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