About Writing...

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I used to write guidebooks. This isn't one of those, but sometimes I get in these random motivational moods and....well, here we are.

Like the description said, I'm definitely going to ramble here. If you don't like that, click off. Sometimes when I get really into something I'm talking about, I can't shut my mouth. I gotta finish it a lot of the time. I know in the previous ones I probably didn't stay on track all the time, but here I'll try to.

No promises, though.

Let's get to it!

When you first begin writing, I guarantee you that someday you'll look back and cringe at some of the older stories you wrote. That's normal. You need that since it shows growth.

When you write your first story, you can't be expected to make a masterpiece. I'm not saying it hasn't happened, as I'm sure it has to some people, but oftentimes your story won't be anything fantastic.

There are some measures you can take to make sure your story turns out relatively decent, though.

One thing I always recommend; DON'T BE A PANTSER.

A pantser writer is a writer that makes up the plot as they go along. Now this isn't necessarily a BAD thing, seeing as depending on how you write a story you could save it, but I used to be a pantser when I first started here and you know what happened?

A jumbled mess of a story, that's what.

Bunch of incoherent stories that ended up making no sense. Things appeared to happen just to happen, no thought out vision, no plan, things that could've been explained couldn't with the way they were written, and so many more. With the way those stories were written, the way I see it, none could be salvaged.

Well, actually, some of the shorter ones weren't too bad. It was mainly the longer ones I mean here.

Except there was a bad one I can think of that only took about 10 minutes to read.

As writers, I think we're more critical over our own works at times than others are. For example, maybe your best friend recently read a story of yours you made. You're grateful (WHY ISN'T IT SPELLED GREATFUL? Huh, that spelling looks kinda weird now) for their opinion and what you wrote was decent enough....but you find yourself disbelieving them.

This could be for any reason. Maybe multiple people told you it was bad, maybe it was based off something you liked and now don't. You could have already thought it was bad before writing, skewing your perception of your story, or if you're anything like me it could've been based off a bad story you wrote, in turn STILL skewing your perception.

Probably why Night of Trials is still meh to me. I based it off a really bad play I wrote back in elementary school and the Lily Kesher bit probably has to do with it. Yeah, I probably hit y'all over the head with her, but to be fair, the main characters didn't know what happened to her, not to mention I remember it being like something new was revealed every time.

I know that's probably vague. I'm trying to keep it vague on purpose as to not spoil the story in case if anyone reading this wants to read that.

Or maybe you're just self critical, overlapping in what I said before.

Hey, I get it. Really, I do. It's normal to have self doubts about your stories sometimes.

Take my little brother, for example. I read a story of his on here that he also uploaded to fanfiction.net and it did pretty well on there. It got a decent amount of favorites, follows, and "reviews" (more like comments) despite being on there a shorter amount of time than mine were, and guess what?