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

I’m am increasingly of the opinion that a lot of people who have a creative streak lack an imagination.

Not the whole by a long shot.

Not are they bound to write a bad book without it.

Where I find it affects writing is more in places where you’re trying to not do the same exact thing repeatedly (either of your own work or of everyone else’s). And that’s harder for those who are batshit insane to put up with…and I have my moments where I can’t take that, so it’s me…

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Some of these stories are brutal. Not gonna lie, like no teenager is like this, and it’s just basically virtue signaling, to be honest. A lot of them, now not all of them.

Yeah, I think that I am just spewing at this point with my work because most of it makes sense. :smiley:

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my favourite reviewer has been m.i.a. since like 2018 :sob: :sob:

I honestly don’t remember if her reviews were super in-depth or useful tbh i just had a ton of fun reading them, or even better, listening to siri read them in text to speech :joy:

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well u can always check out Magpie Black to see that contrast in action shameless plug is shameless

It does become quite a balancing act. There are a couple scenes that have two characters who use they/them interacting with each other while in a group. And then of course there are the generic they’s that get thrown in, which i try to reduce as much as possible for the sake of less confusion but sometimes all the time i’m lazy lol.

Are these scenes super confusing…? m a y b e! i’ll figure it out, probably.

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maybe you would like a Jeff Vandermeer book. You could try A Strange Bird, it’s very short.

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Is it weird?

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it is! quite literally, it’s genre is ‘weird science fiction’.

It’s a side story of the Borne series, which i have accidently been reading backwards ;-; i don’t think it really matters though, it all reads like an acid trip anyways.

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DO you have to think much for it and understand it?

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if you wanted to you could probably think the shit out of it. i find the writing style all on it’s own to be fascinating, and it’s dystopic so i’m sure you could make lots of inferences about how current times humanity is following a path of death and destruction blah blah.

or you can be like me and get a little toasted and read a story about a magic bird that gets turned into a sentient invisibilty cloak. it’s good either way.

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And in today’s edition of first world problems…

a book which I placed a hold on from my library just became available. Lo! I am already reading two books having scheduled my reading around this hold which was supposed to be available in 3 weeks time, not today. And if I give the book back, I’ll be put on a waitlist for 6 weeks because apparently everybody wants to read it. I could rush through my current reading to get to the loan but I want to take my time and really get into it. I could buy the book instead… but I already have a backlist of three books.

In other news,

I announced that I’m writing a novel ‘for adults’ and therefore my imminent departure from Wattpad to my family on a Zoom call. To which my mother gasped histrionically as if she had been reading my crappy little book all along (she hasn’t). ‘Good thing I have access to the OneDrive that you save your documents on,’ she said. This was news to me. All my drafts, apparently, are available to read at their leisure. Reactions by other family members were rapturous although it is unlikely to linger, given I’ll be proper slagging them off in the new novel.

I know they would be confusing right the second because I’m watching my kid do her homework in the car. Variable distractions directly affects my comprehension.

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in the car?

it’s okay though you really don’t have to read it, i was kidding :sneezing_face: the shameless plug was in fact a shameful plug in disguise. i only put shameless plugs in the designated appropriate places :joy:

Everything is becoming dystopic now, to be honest. Reality, don’t need a book for that lol.

harry potter’s owl?

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Lol, my interest in reading is bigger than my actual ability recently. So I will say I’m interested. It’s a total 180 form before kids. (No wonder so many claim to lose their mind after kids.)

We are outside dance class, and my girls don’t have the same time slot so it’s a two hour block of Mommymommymommy.

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yeah but it’s cooler in books.

how dare u insult the strange bird like that. Hedwig could never :rofl:

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But I need normalcy :smiley:

wanna bet? :wink:

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children are terrifying :sob:

i appreciate the interest tho, thank u

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then keep reading the vapid contemporary books

shore

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that’s not normalcy either lol.

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hm, try some high fantasy.

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