Struggling Writers’ Daily Den: rant, share, complain, ask, daily progress thing (Part 1)

I like to believe I’ve written a story with similar vibes to this (I actually read the first volume of Heartstopper for inspiration for how to market my story for YA, if I wanted to do so).

Regardless, it’s a super cute show! And I kinda live for the moment between Nick and his mom at the end (supportive parents ftw!) :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Heatstoppers has inspired me to write a story called AED. It’s very scaly and weird.

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As a worse influence, I vote to watch Onyx Equinox. You know it’s good if my pfp us from it!

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It’s an imbecille that sees “freedom for Russia” as support of the Russian regime. ESPECIALLY if they are an American. It’s a clear act of rebellion under loyalty, and is why the US has phrases like:

“…the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants…”

It’s that type of person whom I expect to comfortably stay in their home that is a luxury in most the nations while screeching, threatening to flee a nation over someone half the nation elected (as happens repeatedly) yet never do because it’s a tantrum and not a dire necessity for them to survive.

It’s the type of person who really isn’t finding a way to be useful. I don’t need an agreement on a damn thing, but damn it gets tiring after about the 3rd rant.

Or more simply, hotheads move their opinions first and volatile isn’t an opinion to cater to.

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It’s on them, tbh. But, hey, I want 10K views on Lone Werewolf, so every click counts.

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I was able to finish part 4 of chapter 3.
Thank goodness it is done.

Man, I am tired and achy!

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I’m back on writing the last chapters to my fiction story. Finally got the fingers to type. :laughing: I don’t even want to think about all the editing I’m going to have to do when it’s finally done. :weary:

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Every argument probably counts as long as it ain’t the author that has it, as that jacks with that, too. Lol

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I’ve put my WIPs on hold for a short story that doesn’t want to be written. :upside_down_face:

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Got sidetracked by gardening yesterday… now I have to offend the cat by getting up and putting coffee on and doing a bit of editing. Then I am planning to do some planting and take care of bunch of my peonies

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I don’t even know how the Wattpad Algorithm works anymore, and I don’t know why I keep getting 7 year old stories sent to me.

Why do new stories never show up anymore? How do people even see them and how do they gain popularity? I remember back in the old days it was so much easier to be able to do that, and it was fairer and more simple.

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I have been systematically attempting to find the bottom of the barrel on Wattpad but they keep recommending me Harry Potter fanfiction—decently written at that!

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LMFAO HP fanfics. That’s interesting. None of Krum or Polyakov yet?

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Mostly Drarry and OC protags. Lots of Tom Riddle and Malfoys, too.

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Nice. No Hermione.

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Wattpad’s algorithm is what it is. The new stories do get a few weeks boost after publishing in ranks, but to get some traction after that, you need to make ambassador lists… imo, the strategy is first five chapter on Day 1, then frequent updates while you are boosted, then as many applications to Ambassador lists as your book can have once you have a decent update schedule. Oh, and a variety of clubs, so you have at least 10 people reading your chapter beginning to end week after week.

Then… pray that your story retains readers who accidentally see it.

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And, damn it, with the current events in Russia that are getting more and more dystopian, evil and bizarre at the same time, I have a storyline for book 3 of Lone Werewolf without even trying. :woman_shrugging:

I would have never in a million years believed that writing in my outline ‘Enemy gets poisoned by a rare toad’s poison for failing to deliver on his promise of elite unit deployment/assassination’ is firmly rooted in reality.

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I noticed that when judging: HP fanfics are often a cut above other genres. And I’m not into that.

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I could. Humans have been poisoning since the dawn of time. It’s more often women doing the poisoning, and I’d expect a Machiavellian mastermind to use a woman as the foul for such a plot, just automatically.

Even more amusing, we mass poison without thinking about it: lead in gasoline.

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I had a realization: most every trope on men in romance stories is “Lonely Boy”. Psychology backs it up to some degree, showing that men rarely confide in anyone but a wife and so divorce and death harms their ability to express themselves while women reach out more. (Trends.)

I’m now trying to figure out what the traits of a man who isn’t lonely would be, in a romance.

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