[ SECRET POST #3436 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3436 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning]


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03.
[The Americans]


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04.
[Captain America]


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05.
[Chuck Wendig vs. Chuck Tingle]


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06.
[The Lotus War series by Jay Kristoff]


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07.
[The Blues Brothers]


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08.
[Marvel, Daredevil]


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09.
[The Danish Girl]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 29 secrets from Secret Submission Post #491.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No, I don't think you should give up, OP. Creating great characters and worlds takes practice, like anything else. If you don't mind some advice, I can tell you what works for me.

1) Read as much as you can. Don't limit yourself to fanfic, or even fiction. All the really creative writers I know draw inspiration from real life, history, all the weird little bits of trivia and little known facts that most people don't know much about. Read about the nightmarish creatures of the ocean, like vampire squid. Read about historical mysteries like a grave full of disembodied skeletons that might've been some sort of Viking massacre. Pick a country and find out as much as you can about its history. Read about the Victorian explorers who thought there was a lost city in the Amazon. Read about the Wars of the Roses. Read about extraordinary women inventors and doctors.

2) Become a keen observer of people. Not in a creepy, stalkery way, but look around you for inspiration. Fascinating people make fascinating characters, but you have to figure out WHAT makes them fascinating. What makes people tick? Why do people do the things they do? If you learn to break down what motivates people and what's behind human behavior, you can use that in your writing.

3) Spend some time away from the computer/internet. Go out and observe the world around you. When you do that, take note of not just what you see, but what it sounds like, smells like and tastes like. Your five senses create every memorable scene in your memory, and the same works for writing, too. Just sit and observe everything.



If writing is what you want to do, you don't have to come to terms with anything that says you're not good enough to continue. You are good enough.

[(Anonymous)]

All good stuff until the last two sentences. One can want to do something and just not be very good at it. And that's ok.

[(Anonymous)]

They were saying that OP is good enough to continue writing, which is true. Writing is a hobby and it doesn't matter how good you are at it, you can certainly continue as a hobby if you enjoy it etc. I think what you are saying is that OP may not be good enough to achieve success as a writer. That could be true, idk. But it's not really what the comment you replied to is saying.

[(Anonymous)]

You missed the point. I didn't say that wanting to do something meant you were automatically good at it, I said "good enough". OP is good enough to keep writing if that's what they want to do. They don't need to meet a certain standard just to write stories, they just need to want to write.