Post 9pQebDEOoaFrYnf4NM by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
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(DIR) Post #9pQeb81o9yDDQIjRYW by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T07:46:10Z
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Ug, I am writing fantasy fiction set in a universe I know everyone but me will hate (our world, but with magic, but it's just normal, it became normalized at the tail end of the Roman empire, but like, the setting is modern San Francisco and there's our modern broken startup scene), but I really am enjoying writing it, but I want to share it, but I know most of the people I share stuff like this with will be put off that *introducing magic to the modern world would change it*And that sucksI hate itI know I don't have to consider audience for personal writing, but if I don't consider audience, I can't get others excited
(DIR) Post #9pQeb8LIzToAOlr0wi by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2019-11-28T14:59:23Z
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Just go for it man. If you just need to write, you don't need anyone but yourself to like it, and you have to account for the fact that you are probably wrong about the expected reception.
(DIR) Post #9pQeb8j3ZAo5aQxyy0 by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T15:17:56Z
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@hypolite Yeah, I know, just, tired and hating that I don't trust the thing I am doing
(DIR) Post #9pQeb966BVEqjtkNsm by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2019-11-28T15:31:14Z
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Fair enough, just open a text editor/take a pen and start writing. Everything else you are thinking will work against you.
(DIR) Post #9pQeb9Pb10pniMrxGy by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T16:02:23Z
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@hypolite I am like 20K words in >.< it's just... I want to share my weird mutant fantasy with people as excited
(DIR) Post #9pQeb9tjCywBDoy1Eu by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2019-11-28T16:06:05Z
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See, it's working against you. Just publish the damn thing. People will get excited or not, but it shouldn't bear any weight on your decision to publish it or not. You don't need hype, you just want it to assuage your insecurity about what you're writing. Now quit whining and publish it already. Or don't, but this in-between is hard to watch.
(DIR) Post #9pQebAOZMJbilTOeJM by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T16:07:45Z
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@hypolite Yeah, but now I need to figure out how to make the middle work!20K words isn't written, it's just all doing research into different spiritualities and how they work.This is *mid project* stress, not end of project stress.
(DIR) Post #9pQebB7aevcV16SbU8 by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2019-11-28T16:12:16Z
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Fair enough, but then your complaint about people potentially not enjoying your thing that is far from being made feels even more remote!
(DIR) Post #9pQebBgKZlPQkqiLdQ by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T16:18:52Z
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@hypolite I feel like they wont engage with the setting! Making it feel like a hurdle to cross to finish!
(DIR) Post #9pQebDEOoaFrYnf4NM by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2019-11-28T16:28:18Z
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You're just making this hurdle up! If you feel like you need to know people will enjoy a story that doesn't exist yet, it feels to me that you just are needing validation and it has no relationship to your work.And yes, you're perfectly valid and no matter what you put out, some people will enjoy it.
(DIR) Post #9pQebDiX0YMF4Fl8LI by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T16:30:21Z
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@hypolite It's the hurdle of "I don't know if anyone I would talk to about this would enjoy it, and so is it worth finishing" And yes, that's just common writer stress, which I feel I am allowed to vent at 3am
(DIR) Post #9pQebfbPKdIRYGdq7s by byllgrim@mastodon.xyz
2019-11-28T18:27:09Z
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@silverwizard Sorry for intruding, but I'm too curious. What is "feel I am allowed to"?
(DIR) Post #9pQm4F0A0kel7zn3qq by silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca
2019-11-28T19:46:22Z
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@byllgrim I am just saying I think it's a reasonable thing to post stress at 3 am sometimes, and he was being all "Just do it" while I was clearly doing