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Novels are easy, plots are hard
God, original writing is such a frustrating, unrewarding experience. I know like 70% of what I want to do,and I love and am excited about the idea, but the last 30% is all making connections to come up with the why that explains the what, and maybe a how, and I'm finding absolutely no help with it.
I can't talk to anyone about it, because no one wants to hear about it. I can't find any local writing groups or writing buddy programs that I would feel comfortable with considering my complete non-starter position of writing. I can't even find any resources online, because all the online resources are extremely basic. Option 1 is "plot out your extremely boring realistic fiction novel where your prospective plot might be something like 'protagonist needs to quit smoking' or 'protagonist wants to settle down and have a family'", and option 2 is "you obviously just need help getting the basic idea of your novel down, so throw two words together, like 'wizards + boarding school'. There, that's a plot of Harry Potter. TA-DA!"
So frustrated, I've been at this hardcore for two hours, and at the back of my mind for... all day since yesterday, and my progress has been entirely lateral -- just coming up with new alternatives for the things I was already going to do, posing no solutions for the unanswered questions.
Ugh. Maybe I'll just go ahead and write Harlequin romances.
ETA: My emo required a gif.
I can't talk to anyone about it, because no one wants to hear about it. I can't find any local writing groups or writing buddy programs that I would feel comfortable with considering my complete non-starter position of writing. I can't even find any resources online, because all the online resources are extremely basic. Option 1 is "plot out your extremely boring realistic fiction novel where your prospective plot might be something like 'protagonist needs to quit smoking' or 'protagonist wants to settle down and have a family'", and option 2 is "you obviously just need help getting the basic idea of your novel down, so throw two words together, like 'wizards + boarding school'. There, that's a plot of Harry Potter. TA-DA!"
So frustrated, I've been at this hardcore for two hours, and at the back of my mind for... all day since yesterday, and my progress has been entirely lateral -- just coming up with new alternatives for the things I was already going to do, posing no solutions for the unanswered questions.
Ugh. Maybe I'll just go ahead and write Harlequin romances.
ETA: My emo required a gif.