✍️ Writing
A community for writers, like poems, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, long books, all those sorts of things, to discuss writing approaches and what's new in the writing world, and to help each other with writing.
Rules for now:
1. Try to be constructive and nice. When discussing approaches or giving feedback to excerpts, please try to be constructive and to maintain a positive vibe. For example, don't just vaguely say something is bad but try to list and explain downsides, and if you can, also find some upsides. However, this is not to say that you need to pretend you liked something or that you need to hide or embellish what you disliked.
2. Mention own work for purpose and not mainly for promo: Feel free to post asking for feedback on excerpts or worldbuilding advice, but please don't make posts purely for self promo like a released book. If you offer professional services like editing, this is not the community to openly advertise them either. (Mentioning your occupation on the side is okay.) Don't link your excerpts via your website when asking for advice, but e.g. Google Docs or similar is okay. Don't post entire manuscripts, focus on more manageable excerpts for people to give feedback on.
3. What happens in feedback or critique requests posts stays in these posts: Basically, if you encounter someone you gave feedback to on their work in their post, try not to quote and argue against them based on their concrete writing elsewhere in other discussions unless invited. (As an example, if they discuss why they generally enjoy outlining novels, don't quote their excerpts to them to try to prove why their outlining is bad for them as a singled out person.) This is so that people aren't afraid to post things for critique.
4. All writing approaches are valid. If someone prefers outlining over pantsing for example, it's okay to discuss up- and downsides but don't tell someone that their approach is somehow objectively worse. All approaches are on some level subjective anyway.
5. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of solarpunk of course still apply.
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If you're referring to a post, touché.
However it all falls apart pretty quickly with my mind, even more so recently.
But on a more factual level, I am a technical expert. I can write howtos and documentation, given the time, but all that is easy from a structure point of view.
I wasn't referring to anything. I was merely trying to understand why you felt you could not write stories etc.
I do understand that the writing skills you currently have do not lend themselves to writing stories. However, I'd say that it may be possible to learn how to do so.
I am not sure what you mean about it falling apart in your mind, would you like to explain more?
Sure! I always thought of this as having a massive cpu but almost no ram or storage. So while I can keep things in my mind and maybe do some impressive thinking it's a 'sliding window' and older parts drop out of it fairly quickly.
It's literally hard to keep thoughts together. I also have strong non diagnosed but very possible neurodivergent tendencies.
I noticed the above early in my life. When getting into deep discussions there are sudden dead ends my brain gets in and that's it.
Oh, hmm. Have you ever thought about going to get diagnosed and maybe meds or some such to help?
Yes, of course. And in my country the health system is quite OK too. But I have overcome so many obstacles and already have so many diagnoses (medical, matter of fact proof) that it really does not matter anymore.
I also have been on medication regarding this already, that helped but also muffled down everything among other disadvantages.