I’m not shallow, you’re shallow.

What drives people to post their work online? Better, what drives you to post your work online?

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Seeing that Spell of Love is my most viewed story so far, I wanted to know what ideas can put into the sequel, Trap of Love. I had Trap of Love planned out and now, I can't figure out how to word anything I wanted to put into the story. I may start writing short chapters to see if I can make it work that way, but ideas from you all would be very much appreciated.

Does anyone know any specific tips on how to write these three?

(May or may not be a repost)
I feel I should start this off with this:

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Recently on my Neckbeard meme post, I mentioned that Nice Guys shake their fist at the sky and wonder what's wrong with society, where nice guys like them don't get girls, but the jocks and douches do. Now, of course, they're douches too. But I have an answer for the timid, passive man as well. Niceness isn't the problem. It's your lack of action or confidence that makes your niceness slip down the slippery slope into Weinerdom.

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Don’t shit where you eat.

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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

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I am no expert when it comes to females but I can say this, guys give your girl respect and she will respect you back.

As a writer, there are numerous factors you have to consider in your story. Are you keeping the reader engaged with your balance of showing and telling? Does the plot make sense, or at the very least, will it make sense in the end? Have you obeyed all the proper rules of grammar, like not using none of those double negatives?

Wait...

Screw it, moving on. You see my point.

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So you want to be a writer. An author. An artist of words. A Lothario of literacy. Well I have a few things to say to all you aspiring bestsellers out there:

Don’t.

Creative writing is a pain of a hobby, even on the best of days. Fiction or poetry, every key-press and pen-stroke is to teeter on the edge of exhaustion. A dead-lift a plate over your limit forcing you to push yourself beyond what you thought capable and the only reward is sweat and soreness.

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All poopoo time is also peepee time, but not all peepee time is poopoo time.

I've already done it in this thread. I might as well do it as a blog.

Is your life not perfect?

Don't keep the pains to yourself. Share your troubles with me in the comments bellow, and I shall give you a Bad advice in return.

Hey everyone, I started writing a new story, but I'm seriously struggling with some aspects. Would anyone like to read what I have so far and give me some advice on how to advance? It would be very much appreciated.

I'm sick. Have been for nine days now. I hope that this slight improvement I'm feeling is a 'getting better' kind, and not a 'fluctuate" kind like it was a few days ago.

Anyhoo, for anypony reading this, here is some random advice:

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So, there's this friend I have from last year in college that I share the same major with. This year, he invited me to Bible study and I agreed, thinking it was going to be a group of other people. On the day of the Bible study, he texted me, asking my to come to the Library, and I agreed. He directed me to the back room upstairs, and I discovered it was just him.

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Hey, guys, I'm finally thinking of publishing some stories. Most of my ideas of kind of long and complex, though. So do any of you guys have any suggestions on how to write a short story that I could publish on here and get a feel for how publishing on this website work?

Don’t mind me, just climbing on my soapbox again...

There we are.

Hotshotting, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, comes from pro wrestling. I’ll admit that’s a strange place to start a blog on writing, but given the staged (“fake”) nature of the business, pro wrestling has always had an element of theater and entertainment to it. The basic premise of “Two men don’t like each other, and people pay to watch them fight,” has sold out arenas across the world for decades.

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So this is a short one, and a specific one, but I just got asked an interesting question, and I thought I'd expand on it in here:
How do you deal with characters in a horror story getting a victory, a big win, without killing the sense of tension in the story.

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This morning I submitted my latest story Bromance Night and it barely got to 100 views. The advice I need is how do I get a story that can get some kind of attention? I did had those once in awhile but not enough to give me more followers.

Before I even say anything, just know that I have no idea why I chose to rant about all of this right now. Just something that has been in the back of my mind since I've actually started seriously writing fics again.

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