Writer's Block Daily

This is not meant to be insulting, although it may take you aback: Have you ever considered your own behaviour and experiences as a source for that subject? Because you spend a lot of time asking other people for answers to questions that you clearly already have a good handle on, and constantly seem to either second-guess your instincts as a writer or impatiently demand feedback and criticism from strangers who have little context with your work. All this, to me, reads as someone who might have issues with self-esteem and self-confidence in their own right.

Which probably reads as a somewhat mean way of telling you to chill your pill, but it really isn't. It's something that I really think you could afford to think about and draw upon in your work if that's where you want to go with it. I've drawn a lot on my own experiences with anxiety and depression, personally...

actually, i was calm at that post since i was trying to figure out a decent reason he had such self esteems without coming off as cliche.

edited 23rd Feb '17 9:26:44 AM by ewolf2015

I kind of agree with JHM here. The way you're asking things make it feels like you want us to do the writing work for you. Usually when I ask questions it might be something like "what type of gun would be good for taking a dude's kneecap off" or "do we have any knowledge on what language deprivation does to people"

basically super specific, and it doesn't put the onus on the other writers to come up with something creative, just if they have knowledge on a specific area I am lacking, and can't entirely google easily without going through dozens of articles individually (such as the gun one).

If you go "does this seem cliche to you" and give a segment, we can give feedback, but "what are interesting ways to do X" is so subjective and vague you can't really get much help. Especially when that's the only way you ask things.

edited 23rd Feb '17 9:48:21 AM by MrAHR

so i give a bit of backstory and you'll see for yourself if it's not cliche? or should i not bother asking. I'm really sorry if that last post come off as making you guys work. i simply need ideas or maybe questions to jump start that.

......now that i said that, feel really bad for you guys. you people have lives for flip sake. who in there right mind would bother asking a trivial, vague answer?

Nearly everybody, until they learn better.

hey, i hate to ask but originally, this web serial use to a script until I've decided to convert it to prose. one part opens in a comic book where two bankers are having a conversation about taking a break for awhile until the villian nefarious busts in to rob the bank. how might i write that? also, if it seems too vague then please tell me.

Write is as normally, then add the twist that it was a comic book later. At least that is what I see as a good idea, but if you have others please stay true to yourself.

thanks

There is a scene like that (only involving pirates) in "The Watchmen". You should obtain a copy if you don't have one.

Random thought: crystals such as quartz are sometimes used for the storage of magical energy in some way. Quartz is made of silica. Some versions of fiber optic cables are made of silica. Conclusion: in a Post-Modern Magik society, fiber optic cables could potentially be used to transmit magic across great distances.

Well, that would also depend if magic storage depends on the atomic properties of the material, its crystalline structure or something more complex. The second could pose problems for the method...

On the other hand, magical superconductors could have all kind of interesting properties.

alright, so i have story planned about a bunch of kids who go this camp. the camp they live in has a secret that has something to do with cannibalistic tribe that lives there. the thing is though is that the tribe are suppose to be kinda similar to the fair folk and one of them is killer that wears the mask a deer. feel like the idea of this is tipping off moonflowers to some extent.

Random thought.

Watching The Breakfast Club, I realized that what and how characters eat is a quick and effective method of characterization.

What's your question?

Is it ripping off moonflowers?

...the troper work?

yes. the thing sharysa made

... is this something sharysa has expressed specifically? This is a bit weirder since the writer is on this very forum.

If you have to ask if you are ripping something off, then chances are overwhelmingly that you aren't. It's hard to do by accident.

No, you can totally rip something off by accident just by not thinking about where you're pulling your ideas. I remember ripping off the general aesthetic of Soul Society and the Gotei-13 ranking system from Bleach because I didn't know what I wanted to accomplish with the story and subsequently didn't know what kind of setting I needed, but I was so engrossed in Bleach at the time that it was the first thing to come to mind. And I didn't realize I had done this until long after I stopped feeling that story and let it fade from my thoughts.

I'm not trying to discourage, but it's rather optimistic to state that certain mistakes are overwhelmingly unlikely to occur by accident. Unless I happen to be part of the 1% who ripped off another work entirely by accident.

seriously, where's @sharsya?

Also sometimes you see a work that does something well enough that you know your brain can't really make something different enough. I gave up writing superheroes after reading worm. it's not the best story ever, but close enough to my brain thoughts that I wouldn't feel right writing it.

ewolf: there is no @ing in this forum. Not programmed in. If you want, you can pm her, and if she wants to, she can respond.

edited 26th Feb '17 3:55:51 PM by MrAHR

wait, yackfest has @ing^note although ewolf did it wrong anyway but writersblock doesn't?

I was unaware of any sort of @ing function in this entire forum. I've been here for five years and I've never seen it. @ing needs to alert the person who you are tagging and nothing in this forum can do that I'm pretty sure.

edited 27th Feb '17 7:44:29 AM by MrAHR

Allow me to demonstrate

~Mr Ahr