That’s how all mythology works.
Oh, and you’re write it? I think you can do it.
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Idk 
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Man has mental breakdown wandering around empty spaces:
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Writing exercises will help you greatly. Try freewriting for 15 minutes or so before you start your novel. There are like a whole bunch of exercises you can try.
I’m particularly fond of freewriting, s/he said (which is basically writing a story through dialogue using only he/she said, and descriptive writing. Helps me warm up before working on whatever I’m writing.
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Thaaaat’s a tough one. I think you could find someone to work with you in that capacity, I’ve had people ask me about cowriting and stuff because they’re in the same position so it’s definitely a semi-popular approach!
I have very limited co-writing experience as I write insanely fast, and it can feel somewhat one-sided if I’m churning out 5k in a day, and then waiting a month for the next 1k - not a problem with others, it’s literally a me problem.
As for actually getting yourself to keep writing, though, have you tried different approaches? Not planning at all, or planning in a different way (outlining big plot points only, or directing each scene in bullet points down to the finest detail)? There’s also different things to help get motivated again, like writing sprints, writing crawls, workbooks for beating ‘writer’s block’ that could help here, too etc. Tons of different tools out there for writers, maybe one will help if you can’t find a cowriter?
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It may be harder to find, but not impossible! Some popular books have been written by more than one author—take Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (which my friend has bought a copy of recently!) 
I think you just need to find someone who’s on the same page and wavelength as you when it comes to writing.
As for the actual writing itself, well, I can’t say I’ve gone through the same experience as you, but the closest I have gotten to it might be experiencing severe writer’s block 
in which case I try to “unstick” myself by reading a book whose genre is similar to my current writing project. I often get bouts of inspiration while reading, which helps me later on when I want to actually write, even if the resulting progress ends up being only a paragraph long.
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Yeah… I’ve spent like 3 years on this one book because I’ve been trying absolutely everything. It’s just theWRITING part I hate. It doesn’t make sense in my head 
poetry is completely fine though! I love it! It’s amazing :))) I can write like 6 poems in a week and I’m like, happy 
It’s the part where it’s prose and it’s long and time consuming and you have to make sense to a sane person that I hate
Okay 
good to know!
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^ see above.
Okay, will try
I’ve done a lot of writing exercises, and maybe I’ll try some, we’ll see.
^ see this for context
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It’s mainly the part where I have to make sense to a sane person while writing prose. poetry is inherently confusing, and if any of you remember my poetry it’s a special flavour of chaos.
also it’s the part where I can’t write fast enough? So maybe a cowriter would help? I just bored way too easily, so long projects like novels are really hard to do alone
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Do you mean co-writing, or having a writing buddy as you work on your individual projects?
It’s so hard to find someone that works in a way that compliments the way you work when it comes to co-writing
I tried twice with two different writer friends and neither one panned out. One was my idea being the base and with a first draft failure. The idea was to read it through and rewrite/redo with their ideas in it. They were an excessive planner that loves details. I’m not. But we thought we could compliment each other with that. Nope. Didn’t even happen. Just fizzled away and we never revisited it again.
The other was their idea being the base with some vague world building, some characters and such. Didn’t begin either. Also, using their characters was a problem because even though they said I could do anything with them, they would disagree with my ideas for them Both of us were pantsers.
Idk… maybe it’s best if you come up with an idea together? I honestly don’t know how co-writing even happens. It might also help if you have something they don’t, and they have something you don’t in terms of skill. Like, maybe they’re really good at fight scenes, so their chapters can have the fight scenes, or something… idk.
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Y.d.k. what? That that’s how religions work or that you can write it?
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Yes
Ye, that was the plan 
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I’m so lost idk anything anymore
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Find a guide dog.
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So I did the first two from this thread. I didn’t do the 3rd cuz it’s more specifically geared towards prose, and I am more of a poet, so I disliked the restriction that came with that one bc it makes no sense with poetry so
Writing excercises
ONE: BEING GORGEOUS
I am a blue tree.
In the sea of all that is unholy I stand, concerned with the conviction of the million branches blubbering around me that I am orange. Awake as the dying trees, I stay awake in the morning light, whispering something that that I can never fully see, hear, feel. Branches whisper the grievances of a thousand years, all telling me how to live and how to dream.
In the midnight quiet i stand, blowing in the afterglow of the evening sun, leaves burning bright still until the dawn of time. Following the underground darkness, feeling the blur of a million voices pulsing with pain and pleasure and post-mortem madness.
I am young and beautiful and ugly and old; I am the scorn of the morning light chasing away the tender darkness; I am the riot in the calm and the beauty in the chaos.
I let myself heart burn as a cyan flame, in the twisted glory of the 4 am light, the moon shining bright as an apocalypse. the world turns asunder when I shudder my thoughts into existence, conceiving the notion that I am once again unique: the earth vibrates with my arrival….
I am home.
TWO: AM I SARAMAGO?
I am fluorescent honed creature flourishing like a sea of lights sounds colours smells and as if I could live without the pressure of the present time I count one two three days years a century and yet still I am amazed at how the world is always turning burning swelling producing pleasure plaster and pain
English is the only language I’m fluent enough in to write tbh
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