What is your current, number one, writing struggle?
I know you have many. I do, too. But is there one that really bugs you? It keeps coming back to haunt you?
Mine is: where to start the darn story and how to start it
Why do some stories, when I write them, start in such a smooth way that isn’t jarring at all? I barely need to edit those because they come out right the first try. Then there are these other stories that, no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to settle on the beginning. I can’t figure out where the story begins.
Idk if you’ve seen my brainstorming thread…there’s a battle of stories in my head right now. Currently four. One is the brainstorming one, one is Pinti’s story, another is my magic realism story that I want to do a bit of cosmic horror things, and another is a NaNoWriMo wannabe.
Sigh.
You say this a lot, and I find this a quite freeing method? perspective? Most of my stories begin like this and then I share them only because I want to. It’s like when a little kid draws a picture and then gets proud of it and shows it to their parents. I’m like "Hey, look what I wrote! "
I do have moments when I want to share, but honestly if I get to a point in my life where I want to publish my stories, though as a writer and “reader” I am NOT even remotely there yet because I don’t read physical novels at all.
I am slightly hoping that changes because I want to do some annotating while listening to the audiobook. Yeah that sounds like I am doing a lot or weird, but I got to do what makes me happy.
Really? You got to fully engage in the sub-genre. LOL!
Cosmic Horror can really throw you in a loop when it is done well.
Steven King writes some cosmic horror, HP Lovecraft, himself, coined the genre, Junji Ito does some cosmic horror manga like Uzumaki and Hell Star Remina, and in terms of movies, you got The Thing, Hellraiser, and The Void.
There are plenty of other options and TvTropes can also help you out!
There’s some scenes in the second book where incomprehensible demons appear in the sky. They are huge and horrifying. You can’t begin to understand them, and the villain that sees them at once goes into shock at the sight of it. I thought maybe I could bring a more…cosmic horror type of thing into that.
Since my NaNo story is gonna be inspired by Atlantis, what’s your favorite myth or legend?
I quite like anything that has been mysteriously abandoned or that has mysteriously disappeared, or makes things disappear.
Like, well, Atlantis or the Bermuda Triangle But I’m not as invested in the Bermuda Triangle as I am Atlantis. I guess a mysterious triangle isn’t as interesting as an entire city gone missing (supposedly gone missing. I’ve heard all the theories).
Oooh, I find Atlantis interesting too! But as for a favorite, that’s a toughie since they’re all so problematic. Most of the Greek/Roman myths are so outrageously sexist, but if I had to pick a fave I’d likely go with Cupid & Psyche.
Have you read this version yet? I think you’d love it! It begins with about 70 servants poisoning themselves before getting buried alive with their dead king so they can spend eternity serving him starting three days later when he awoke as a god. What a cad!
I used to be skeptical of AI. Thought it was suspicious, a cheating device, and just unreliable.
But as it gets better and better, I’m starting to feel like I have to accept it. I suppose people were feeling similar ways when the smartphone first came out, or when the first non-human computing machine a.k.a the computer came about.
Now computers are such the norm, we literally cannot do without them.
Will AI become that way?
Will AI make productivity better? Will it become like computers where, without AI, we can’t function anymore? Do we now have to accept it into our lives?
I still haven’t tried out ChatGPT because, no matter what my English teacher mom says that I should use it, I’m kinda skeptical. Is it a tool or a cheating device or…there’s so little regulation in place at the moment, that I don’t know if it’s a good idea to jump right into it and use it freely like that.
Idk…it’s so weird that my mom is using it and I’m not and she’s older than me. It should be the other way around. But I can’t help but seeing it as suspicious Especially with all the controversies it caused when it first came out. It’s hard to know to trust it. I thought it would be just a fun little game kind of thing. Not something serious.
@MatthewJH mentioned the three points of the production triangle here which is what got me thinking more about this topic.
Anything anyone would like to add? Thoughts and feelings? (as @Qualeshia12 would say)
As far as writing goes, I think it will cheapen the work of all of us. The great writers in the past didn’t use anything but their own brains to create great works; some of them didn’t even have typewriters. In the future when most writers use AI, the readers will believe we all use it even though I for one will not, and our hard work will be cheapened by those who do use it.
On a related note, I haven’t read this book yet since it just came out, but I can’t wait to get it!
Most of my stories begin like this and then I share them only because I want to. It’s like when a little kid draws a picture and then gets proud of it and shows it to their parents. I’m like "Hey, look what I wrote! 
But I’m not as invested in the Bermuda Triangle as I am Atlantis. I guess a mysterious triangle isn’t as interesting as an entire city gone missing (supposedly gone missing. I’ve heard all the theories).
Especially with all the controversies it caused when it first came out. It’s hard to know to trust it. I thought it would be just a fun little game kind of thing. Not something serious.