Tis been a minute · 11:59pm Apr 18th, 2022
Like before I've been learning to write more consistently. Frankly put I found one strange piece of advice that I have taken to heart and that is to write poorly. Writers block can come in a ton of different forms and sometimes the block is just nervousness. One second you could be blocked from writing because you don't actually understand your own characters, they're an idea not a person and so trying to figure out what they'd say or do becomes difficult because that's like asking how would a box respond to getting hit. Sometimes in writing you just need to accept that a well planned or structured story just isn't going to happen.
Like for example, many people that want to learn how to make a game they instantly want to make something huge and wonderful. Something straight from their dreams, but instantly give up because its too hard and there's too many steps. Same can happen with learning how to draw, and in this case the same thing happens with writing. You can't just skip making the foundation if you wanna build a house, but its a pretty common mistake people make and that's where the second problem people make come into play.
Some people focus too much on laying the foundation and never actually build the house. They spend hours making characters and outlines, refining them over years of constant thinking, and so they've spent their times making separate bricks but no time on actually using them to build something. So like all things there's a balance here and how do I achieve that balance?
I don't
I throw paint at the wall and write the dumbest things that come to mind. Maybe I saw this cool anime, or read a great scene in a novel and I decide to write what I imagined instead. This new scene lacks context or build up, and has no logic to speak of but I don't care. I'll fix it later, or if that's too hard I'll just continue where the scene left off and see how it evolves.
That's the core of it for me. Stop trying to write a story, write a moment. Maybe that moment is a mountaintop view that takes your breath away or its some epic battle for the good of the world or some other nonsense like that. Because at the end of the day, most stories are pretty stupid, so what's the harm in writing one more? There'll be gold somewhere in that trash
Dang!
Ya had me in the first half, ngl!
I was 'bouta go like: 'aye yo... Whaaatt?' but then I read the rest of the blog
And it was like, oooo
Oooo shi. You rite.
Dam!
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I'm glad you found this interesting! I can't really call myself a writer now a days as I don't write very often, but I always like to go back to the idea of writing and think about it. I'm definitely guilty of laying only a foundation instead of ever actually making anything.