Writers Feel Overwhelmed by Ambitious Projects

“So I can come up with very different story prompts/ snippets/ dialogues very very easily.( some are a 500+ words long btw ). I been wanting to write since i was little and i'm just starting out. I have so many ideas and i don't know how to manage them. Because my ideas are very very different from each other background wise specially. For the story to make sense idea A should be in a East Asian mythological settings and the idea B should be in a Si-Fi setting as such.. I'd love to br”

“Hi, guys! So I recently started high school like a few months ago and I’ve always dreamed about being a famous author. Because of this dream, which I believe was far-fetched, and began working on skills. As any normal writer, I was pretty mediocre (probably still am to be honest), I could barely keep up with a long term form of writing. I lacked in sensory details and realistic dialogue, and my character sounded like they were in freaking Disney movie. So, I gave up. Gave up for three whole mont”

“Hey all! My whole life I've been writing short fantasy stories for fun, but they always feel stagnant and my sentence structure is usually pretty funky. I realized recently that my style generally leans more academic (I've always been great at writing essays and book reports), and it's getting in the way of how I want my fiction to flow. It's all just very... clunky. I know part of growing as a writer is reading in the genre you want to engage in, but are there any other concepts”

“I have been intermittently working on a novel. I've never actually finished one outside a writing challenge years ago. I have had stuff going on and tiredness and anxiety has really hampered my ability to write. Anyway I like the idea of November being a challenge and I like the idea of having something completed. So I thought I'd write a novella next month. Maybe join a challenge. Maybe it might help me get back to writing. Especially when novels can take months to finish and this one i”

“Trying to write book, novel, novella idk, I just want it basic, simple and short but exhausting the story as clear and understandable as possible... But short though! idk if that makes sense. Its sci-fantasy, idk if anyone have experience with this, I'd love some advice if you've got any! plus my prose and structure, and grammar (not sure) needs some work! Maybe I'm over researching, am I procrastinating? idk! ... I, wait btw does anyone have any recommendations that could be good re”

“I've always loved writing. I don't consider myself an expert by any means, but I think I have potential... deep down. Here's my problem, which I'm sure is common, but I don't know how to solve it. I mainly like to write fantasy, and I've realized I'm quite good at worldbuilding, but when it comes to creating stories, I get stuck. I can come up with a very complex general plot if necessary... but then I don't know how to add characters to the story, or they tend to”

“Pretty self explanatory really. I had an idea, a vision, a feeling. I spent months mulling it over and had a generic outline for a 2/3 book series in my mind. (I have never written before, it’s ambitious but I don’t care) I started with what I imagined to be a 4-5 chapter prologue. It was context that I needed to understand for the plot but didn’t even plan to include in the manuscript. I just knew I needed it written to set the tone. Well, that 4-5 chapter prologue is now a 5 POV 180k word manu”

“Hi! I’m starting a new hard sci-fi project and the exposition is killing me. I’ve always had trouble trying to integrate worldbuilding into a story in a way that doesn’t throw off the pacing, and I know I’ve been way too detailed in past projects. (This probably has something to do with the way my brain works, but I know it can easily bog down the story.) Any advice or feedback on how to smooth out exposition, or on anything else, would be greatly appreciated! submitted by /u/CharmQu”

“I love worldbuilding. It’s something I have done since I was small, and it taught me great skills in terms of imagination, fitting pieces together, and even creating a narrative in some way. But, of course, it’s a far cry from the lessons you learn from actually writing. As I learned, I began to see other worldbuilders who were interested in becoming writers themselves but had no idea how to start or how to create compelling stories. So I came up with a few bits of advice, and hopefully others c”

“Does anyone else feel like the real world gets less real when you're deep in your story? Full disclosure: I have somehow written 100k in the past month. I'm deeeep in it. And nothing else but that feels real right now. 🫠 submitted by /u/becksaucier [link] [comments]”

“I’ve been writing my entire life and have been told many times how talented I am as a writer which feels like it resonates with me as writing and art is how I can express myself really well. I’ve written a few things on Wattpad but they were fanfiction and so therefore had the backbone of the real show/movies plots to hold up my story. I have drafted COUNTLESS stories and full characters, but I just don’t ever know how to end them or fully conceptualize them. It’s so frustrating. I also refuse t”

“I guess I am technically in a world building stage? I have a LOT more written than what I am showing but I'm trying to boil it down to the most basics as possible.. I might have too many ideas and too big of an idea on how to go about this... It all started with basically wanting to create a Frankenstein type wizard dragon character that becomes a lich, and i was like...whats the BEGINNING of that? Lol. I guess im kind of inspired by Adventure Time's lich even though we don't know mu”

“I've spent almost a month planning what I'm going to write, the plot twists, the characters, everything. I had it all perfectly planned out in my head, and then, right when I started writing, everything sounded so cringe. It was horrible. submitted by /u/Victoria_Character [link] [comments]”

“Is to write a series just big enough that there’s a subreddit for it, so I can lurk in it with an alt and post crackpot predictions and theories that turn out to be true. submitted by /u/isekaimetofarfaraway [link] [comments]”

“This sounds a little odd (maybe, not entirely sure). But I've been writing since I was little and have taken several attempts at sitting down and writing my stories and turning them into books. Recently, about 2 years ago, I began working with an idea about a sci-fi dystopian world and have consistently revisited it every day or every few days. I finally decided enough was enough and sat down to plot the book, all the stupid ideas in my head and whatnot. So I sat down, filled up a good noteb”

“Comps: Dune, Red Rising, Sun Eater I feel overly ambitious, in over my head. I've got barely any written work to put my name to, yet I've been grinding at a sci-fi space opera since last December. I still recall wanting to write a short dystopian novella of about 50k words with a small cast of characters and a grounded story. A doable thing, I guess. Until I got my hands on Red Rising , and I started reading through it. It tripped me up, the science in its fiction. Just needing a reason”