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Part of me wonders if I'm actually any good at writing fiction, or just generally coming up with ideas and writing about them.
...As in, writing scenes well VS writing an actual story well.
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I have so many notebooks full of ideas for characters of all settings, along with introductory paragraphs, or written scenes, or both, to show how they act in different situations, who they are, etc.
To the point I sorta overwhelm m'self, too many ideas :P
Do scenes with them a fair bit, and I don't think I'm half-bad at those, but doing a proper story is likely beyond capability.
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@katiekats Perhaps you're the kind of person who likes forum role playing threads then. That involves a lot of character background and in-character writing but less of the "figure out what all the characters should do" things.
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@verius
Do similar things with wifey, and such. 'Scenes' per say. Not all the time, cos of our respective hardships but a decent amount.
Forum threads throw me off, cos of both anxiety, and generally cos...I dunno, to write with another in that way, feels like you need to partially know where the other person is coming from, and just -not knowing the actual person- would confuse me a bit :P
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@katiekats Fiction has many different parts and it's pretty common for people to be good at one thing and not very good at other things. For example I like to think I'm decent at worldbuilding but I really suck at writing conversations.
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@verius
Mhm. Agree with that.
Hence a lot of people who end up thinking they could write a great novel or some such, and then don't. That doesn't mean they're bad at what they thought they could do. It's usually just that what they did was a specific section of components, and they did that well. But they either skip out, or do badly, the other components they need to fully craft the book.
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@katiekats It's why I always figure my writing to be more suited for an RPG type background book than a novel. Not that I've actually played a pencil-and-paper RPG in my life though.
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@verius
Indeed! Stuff like DnD and such, is good for that. You don't craft the world, the DM does. You just work out how your character fits into it, far more focused on that side.
Not that I have either tho :P
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@katiekats Heh. I'm more of a game and world designer, figuring out the rules and in-game explanations for them in order to create a balanced game.
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