Not sure what to make of this · 3:34am Jun 15th, 2014
So my brother is completely set on creating his own virtual reality video game, even so far as watching tutorials on creating said games. He claimed that his friend Justin was going to focus on putting together the actual game(s) with a few other people, and that he (Stephen) was going to focus on the story of the game, because "Justin said I have good story ideas!" Well, I told him that if he wants someone to design a story, he should let me do it. His exact words were:
"No, because you don't have any GOOD story ideas like me."
I looked at him like he grew horns. I've been writing since I was old enough to do so, anything from short essays to short stories. I am a master of the English language with top scores in any class that had to do with writing. And yet this child, this... FOAL, claims he is a better writer than me?! He, who has atrocious grammar and spelling even at the best of times, and whose writing is a BARELY legible doctor's scrawl? He, who can barely even pass English courses in HIGH SCHOOL? He, who was not reading college level stuff in second grade like I was?
I'm not sure whether I want to laugh in his stupid little face or feel completely and utterly crushed and depressed. So I felt like I had to go cry about it on FimFic. Sorry.
I might not be a fan of the ships in your stories but to say that your story ideas suck is completely ludicrous. You're a good writer!
Let him flounder and burn, in his arrogance and stupidity. He made his choice, let him enjoy the fruits of his labors.
Do you really want to waste you time on what will inevitably fail miserably? I'd say you're better off.
Just watch him fail. That'll give you a laugh.
And don't worry about about your writing skills. You're too good to do so.
I've read all of your stories and not one of them wasn't original and creative, you offered yourself up to try and make a game a little better, but your brother couldn't see that. You are a good writer, but I think your brother is too stubborn - no, arrogant and proud (of achievements he hasn't accomplished, might I add,) to let you help. The project was never going to work anyway, so you can watch it fail.
He thinks he can write good stuff? Let him write and share what he comes up with. If it isn't good and really has no potential, then roast some marshmallows over it as it burns. Chocolate and graham crackers can be added as well depending on the quality of the fire.
As much as I can admire the damage to your older-brother pride here (been there done that, oldest of five myself), I'm going to step out of my shroud of silence for a minute. I would like to offer you some well-meant advice.
I have always stood by my assertion that anyone can tell a story, and that said story can be spectacular... even if it is not spectacularly told, if you get my meaning. Grammar, spelling, prose, and all of the mechanics of writing fiction will always play second-fiddle to pure and simple spirit. The mechanics can be studied, applied, improved upon, but the spirit of writing simply is, and it is immutable.
Your post here saddens me quite a bit, I'm sorry to say. It seems to me as if you've grown out of touch with that concept, or perhaps simply never really discovered it. If you were to read this blog as I have, from the outside looking in, it seems unpleasantly vain and selfish.
I could understand if you were simply miffed over his reply to you, but I can't help feeling you instigated it. You jumped the gun on all this by telling him to let you do it instead. Perhaps it seems harmless to say to him, but it says more than you think. Even if it might be the truth that you could execute a story better, I don't think it is fair to tell him so and dampen his creative spirit.
I do not imagine you were born an expert writer and, by your account here, neither was your brother. That being said, you learned and grew through writing what you desired, and your story within this blog post shows a disturbing lack of tolerance for precisely that learning trend in other aspiring storytellers.
Take pride in what you write; that's only fair. Even so, I caution you to mind the line between healthy pride, and the sort that will make your writing career most unpleasant. Do not press the standards you hold yourself to down on others.
Also, I'm sure this will sound rude, but that's unavoidable: it is very unbecoming for a "professional" or "expert" to boast quite the way you have done just here.
As is always the case with my criticisms, I mean nothing by it, other than a sincere hope that you will improve from it somehow. Take it as you will, but I hope it helps you become a better storyteller; humility might not improve your grammar, but it will improve your spirit, and as I already said... that's really the root of writing, as I see it.
Take care, and write on,
Razorbeam.
If it's any consolation, if he has to look up tutorials on how to do it, then that project is going to fail.
hey his lose is what i would say
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Shroud of silence indeed... I thought you had disappeared from Fimfic all together
As for you Flicka...
*Looks at Unyielding*
*Looks at your brother*
*Looks at Peacekeepers*
*Looks at your brother*
*Looks at Valkyrie*
*Looks at your brother*
Dafuq, dude?
Pfft 
Seriously, though, don't take it too hard. There are people out there that just doesn't understand that their own works aren't one of the seven wonders of the world. Heck, I had that problem once, thinking that I could lift one of those 100 kilo weights and looking down on all those grown men that couldn't... I was 8, but my point still stands. I didn't understand how heavy it was, nor do your brother understand just what a good idea is.
So take it from a guy that has followed you... for a looong time. You are most definitely better than him if he claims that Valkyrie and Unyielding (and its predecessor) aren't good ideas and good stories.
The devil's advicate here but the way it sounds, he is so livid with jealousy it isn't comprehensable
and he's trying to show you that he can do just as well if not better. The way it sounds though, their not even going to get off the ground enough to get kindling to make a fire to roast their ideas and make smores.
Us literary geniuses are so under appreciated.
Well, to be fair, I'm a high school freshman, but consider me how you were at that education level. While my legibility still needs a bit of work, my writing itself is quite sound. But your brother... I don't even know what to think about that.
I hear you, buddy.
Clearly there is only one solution.
You must plead with him to do the right thing and let you help, if not for his sake then for that of the recipients of the story.
If this does not work you must try again but now offer to work with him on this.
If he continues to refuse and insult you then lock him in his room and spray paint the word "moon" on his door and give him a thousand year time out.
In all seriousness though your writing ability is undeniable and while it is nice to have sibling recognition you do not need it tp validate your abilities. Therefore you should just smirk and tell him not to come crying to you when ye can't string two concepts into a coherent plot.
Make him a FIMFiction account and see what happens
Why that little...er...what I mean to say is, just shake it off. People seem to live under the illusion that just because they can come up with a good idea that they are apparently qualified as writers and storytellers. Writing takes practice, patience, more practice, hard work, more hard work, determination, originality, creativity, and (in my opinion the most important) voice.
If he can't even pass high school english...
*cough* anyway, don't feel crushed, just laugh at him. He'll learn in time. The hard way.
-C.Storm