Scared of Writing

[Anonymous No.13711292]

I promised to myself that I wouldn't come back here till I had finished a book. It's been like 7 months and I haven't wrote a single page. Instead I keep getting new ideas for new books that seem so brilliant in my mind that I just think "I could never write something like that, I'd ruin it".
I can see the characters, can see their actions, but when I'm in front of the white screen I can't write it down.
What can I do?

[Anonymous No.13711374]

>>13711292
Make sure you take time to write a skeleton version of the plot and the notes you want to hit and then flesh it out. Make sure you set realistic goals for yourself, but also make sure you're actually getting something on the page every single day. You can do this, you just need to adjust your habits and gain a little confidence. I believe in you cowboy.

[Anonymous No.13711386]

>he formulates a plot before writing
There’s your problem.

[Anonymous No.13711388]

>scared of writing
Oh my fucking God. This is the single most pathetic thing I have ever read. Stop inventing problems to make your life more interesting.

[Anonymous No.13711412]

None of us can help you, but if a small amount of kindness means anything to you: I know how it feels, when you understand how to overcome this, it just clicks. It's as simple as pushing down the clutch and changing gears. It's an exclusively mental phenomenon that you can control to an extent that would surprise you.
In other words:
this >>13711388
but unironically.

[Anonymous No.13711414]

>>13711388
Kafka was scared of writing

[Anonymous No.13711433]

>>13711292
You have to lower your standards for what is acceptable to include anything my man. Just write and even if it sucks it's alright because it's something. You're not going to ruin anything by writing - you're just in the process of making it real which is the opposite of ruining it. It's the greatest service you could give to that idea. Good luck, OP. Start now, even if it's just one sentence, hell, even if it's just one word

[Anonymous No.13712177]

>>13711374
Good advice.

[Anonymous No.13712294]

>>13711292
Turn your internet off and get drunk.

[Anonymous No.13712359]

Try writing out something simple or stupid that doesn't require too much effort, like a video game review that isn't listing adjectives or a really short essay on some subject, or a excessively long analogy so that you can somewhat take it into fiction territory. With enough time, dedication and practice, you'll be decent enough. That, or you'll be sitting around writing 9-10 page essays on how certain hentai games simultaneously offer us a vivid image of our future in modern society while implicitly yet despicably still being part of this very crisis through their support and blatant advertising of subservient fetishes.

[Anonymous No.13713236]

Don't worry, OP. That was my problem as well, and here's the easy solution: the first draft is always shit. You just toy around with your ideas, characters and plot. Don't try to write it all in one sitting, dump perfectionism and try to make a sort of a scheme of your future book. Break the plot into chapters so that it is easier for you to write and thus for a reader to read. Don't force yourself, try to enjoy the creative process.

Try thinking like this: "In chapter 1 X, Y and Z happen, characters A, B and C are introduced, this and this how it moves the plot forward and sets up chapter 2, where X1, Y1 and Z1 happens." and so on. The book is already finished, you just need to write it.

[Anonymous No.13714507]

>>13711292
You can do it!

[Anonymous No.13715193]

>>13711292
Just write stuff. Write words. Here it is, I'm writing words. I'm writing stuff. Wee. I don't give a shit fuck. Just let it out my friend. Let all the fucking words out just fucking write stuff. Jesus, it doesn't fucking matter what you write, as long as you stop blocking yourself. Stop blocking yourself. You can always edit what you wrote later. So just write. Don't worry about the theme or what it's about or anything. Just get the shit out of your system.

Imagine you have a million shitty words inside you, and you have to write them all out before you get to the good ones.

[Anonymous No.13715198]

Dont

[Anonymous No.13715594]

>>13711292

Here's a tip: stop trying to be a writer.

[Anonymous No.13715664]

>>13711292
>I could never write something like that, I'd ruin it
Same. I gave up.

[Anonymous No.13716799]

>>13711292
iktf anon, the way I've just started to get past this recently is by coming up with an idea for a book that functions such that I can think of each chapter as being like its own short story, so I can focus on each one at a time and they (mostly) each work well enough on their own that I don't feel unwanted pressure to complete all of them; perversely this ends up with me completing more of them than I otherwise would have been and hopefully I'll eventually have a full first draft of a novel

[Anonymous No.13716817]

>>13711292
Don't be scared sweatpea. Just speak your truth, Let it all out. You cannot be judged Let it all out. Exhale. Give thanks. You contain everything, nothing can stop you.

[Anonymous No.13716847]

>>13711292
just start writing fun shit. i wrote a whole short story about how much a i hate niggers. writing real literature is boring as fuck

[Anonymous No.13717574]

You can get over your fears by helping us write our collaborative dolphin fiction. We need more writers.

https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/beB0JBZ5Wg

[Anonymous No.13717598]

>>13717574

Also, please no troll. You can write as graphic as you want, as long it stays in the context of the story.

[Anonymous No.13717612]

>>13711292
for me my biggest motivation is jealousy.
whenever i feel like a lazy faggot i search top-tier bands same as my age and i listen to their work. all the jealousy and hatred, it fucking boils my bloods and this fills my pathetic body with tons of motivation to write new songs.

[Anonymous No.13717750]

>>13711292
As someone who has never written any fiction, I always found Borges' reviews of hypothetical books interesting.

[Anonymous No.13717754]

>>13711292
You set your own standards too high, you've never written anything so itll probably be shit. Just start typing. Typing is shit is a 100 times better than typing nothing

[Anonymous No.13717759]

>>13711292
>try to record your ideas on audio and them tape them in to avoid the stress
>take a walk somewhere with your notebook
>force it by writing thing that you don't really like, but still work as a base for you ideas. after 3-4 pages you'll get it running

I'm writing proposals for my phd and with deadlines approaching I have both a writers block and the second season of mindhunter to worry about.

[Anonymous No.13717761]

>>13717750
interesting as exercises of concepts

[Anonymous No.13717799]

I take a piece of life, coarse and barren, and from it I create an exquisite legend, for I am a poet. Whether life, dull and common, stagnates in the gloom, or bursts forth in raging fire, I, the poet, will erect above you, life, my legend which is being created, my legend of the enchanting and the beautiful.

[Anonymous No.13717810]

>>13711292
Just write, delete it then write it again, repeat until satisfactory. Youre not fucking goethe, writing is a craft not some god given skill.

[Anonymous No.13718554]

>>13711292
>I could never write something like that, I'd ruin it
It's not like you only get one attempt. Your first draft is not automatically a permanent representation of the idea. You can go back and edit it, or if it's so bad that it's unsalvageable, you can throw it out completely and try again. You can't "ruin" an idea. You literally have as many tries at it as you're willing to make, and nobody has to see any of them until you've made something you're okay with people seeing.
Your first try is almost definitely going to be shit. But there'll be some parts that are usable, or at least you'll know what parts are definitely unusable and need to be changed. But you have to actually make that shitty first attempt in order to improve on it.

[Anonymous No.13719086]

>>13711292
I'm gonna give you a hug some day anon. A big ole huggie wuggie. A big hunkus mcunkus. A big ole hooey kaplooey. A bige ole kiss on the forehead; mwah.

[Anonymous No.13719113]

>>13711292
Its obviously because you lack the right tools. Have you thought about either spending a few hundred bucks on some software or a few hundred bucks on an antique typewriter?

[Anonymous No.13719471]

>>13711292
Maybe a book is too ambitious. Go for short story mode

[Anonymous No.13719852]

'The first draft of anything is shit'

t. Ernest Hemingway

[Anonymous No.13719864]

>>13711292


https://youtu.be/MANyX7woDPA