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I'm afraid that I have the worldbuilder's disease and it is terminal.

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It's going well

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NO BODY is hyping up By the Lagoon NEARLY enough that song is so fire!!!! it goes so hard!! The Blasting Company strikes again!!

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WHAT

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I am back to writing again. When I was driving too hard I lost sight of my characters. Now that they are leading, though, it looks like the ending I had in mind is getting further and further away.

Still, I don't want to sacrifice his voice for my vision. I will let it be and see how it goes.

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hello, i once again offer you a song off youtube. listen to it it has organs and gothic vibes

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IM GOING CRAZY OVER THE CROOKED MOON SONGS‼️ I have to express how good they actually are!!! They’re PERFECT‼️ Made by the company who made the Over The Garden Wall songs so you KNOW they’re good!! 🫵 Listen to them‼️ I want to spread the good word!!!

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THEYRE BRINGING IN THE ORGAN FELLAS ‼️‼️‼️FATHER RENATHYR'S SONG IS ABT TO FUCK SO HARD

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going insane over "Under Your Shadow", guys. the fact they got a PHANTOM to sing it?? going insane.

also the end of the song could perfectly transition into "The Phantom Of The Opera".

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THE FALLEN SIX

by Coliandre

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OH MY GOD

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I'm not lucky. You have no idea how much I sought God and prayed.

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I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

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kudos to writers with dialogue-heavy works, I got mad respect for y'all. love using dialogue as a tool, but my default settings are non-verbal (dialogue) and non-stop yapping (description).

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i might elaborate later but fanfic replies literally develop writer’s metacognition and make them better writers

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I have a massive idea for my book, but I have no ability to plan it

I've written some of it but it doesn't sound like what I imagined or with I've made in my head

Do you have any advice to help with this?

(I also followed your website, it's so good!)

The quickest way to my heart is to mention my website, haha, thank you!

I struggled with this exact thing for quite a while on my first manuscript. It was an incredibly ambitious (complicated) plot with a whole lot of moving parts, and I'm sorry to say that I never found a one-size-fits-all solution to sorting a book like that out other than trying many times.

But what "unlocked" what would become the final version of ALU were two things I learned in film school:

How character informs plot

And how to plot their arc into an outline

(Find a more in-depth discussion on outline here and here)

While I would make many, many versions of these two documents, it was the organizing and especially analyzing of my drafts that allowed me to really pin down what I wanted it to feel like, and get closer to what I was aiming for.

Other things that helped: having willing friends read it and give me feedback, asking advice from my mentor and other established writers, and reading other similar works and trying to figure out how they did it.

Another huge thing that helped: don't try to make it perfect on your first run.

It might not be exactly how you imagined or quite what you were going for, but you can edit words--you can't edit a blank page. So get the general idea down, get the general arcs of your characters down, get a sort of start to worldbuilding and theme and all that good stuff, and when you go back in to edit, you can start refining and cutting out stuff and making it into that story that you imagined.

Writing is a bit like sculpting, except instead of ordering a big rock or mound of clay or whatever, we need to create it ourselves, and then start shaping it into the final product. If that makes sense.

Here's my post on what's important in each draft to help with this.

I hope that helps! Good luck!