Dieter
the Writer
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Nothing motivates me to write more than to read trash webnovels.
SH, NU, RR, WN—whatever. Mediocrity is everywhere. This isn’t news, or an unpopular opinion. Everyone’s familiar with Sturgeon’s Law (90% of everything’s crap). Sometimes you dig up gold, but when you do, not all of it is gold. Most of it’s shit—which isn’t good for my mental health because I for some reason can’t stop reading them. It’s a habit.
Overused tropes, cliches, cardboard cut-out characters, lack of originality, failure to live up to potential, needless fillers, bloated descriptions to reach a word-count, overindulgence in escapism or power-fantasy (at the detriment of story ie), etc. I don’t need to list it out. You all know. You all also know the disappointment one feels, when, having invested 30 chapters into boring filler, something so stupid happens that you drop the story, annoyed as if betrayed by the author for having led you by the nose.
Once you’ve read webnovels for long enough, a voice starts to grow in you, a whisper at first, soon yelling: ‘I can write better than this—trash! Jesus Christ, just do it already!’ And so you do it (if you’re me). That’s how I got into writing 5 years ago. I still write of course, and I’ve gotten a lot better than my former self (an arrogant newbie who thought he was good? Pah!), but I still haven’t done what got me into writing in the first place: which're the mistakes, still sticking out like a sore thumb, in those stories I read as a teen.
So I’m going to do what the title says. I’m going to rewrite the stories that’ve failed to live up to their potential.
It’s not a bad idea if you give it some thought. By doing this, I’ll improve, I’ll destress, I’ll actually pump out chapters (bye-bye decision paralysis!), and the harsh feedback (if they do come) won’t phase me much since I won’t have as much personal investment behind it, and I’ll actually learn something and improve. The only cons I see is that, it’s not very flattering to have your work ‘corrected’, even if you yourself admit that your work was jaded. So what to do? I’m going to correct the works of authors who can’t read english. It’s that simple.
On my journey towards inner-peace, I’m going to start with The Novel’s Extra. Why? Mainly because I have notes lying around for it. And I’m about to read it for the 3rd time. Also, I’ve read the fanfics, as well as a few derivatives (The Author’s POV comes to mind, which explicitly admits to being heavily inspired by it, and it shows), among other reasons.
If y’all have something against me for this, just know that, if you think about it, I’m just out here making the world a better place
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TLDR : I'm making fanfics now.
SH, NU, RR, WN—whatever. Mediocrity is everywhere. This isn’t news, or an unpopular opinion. Everyone’s familiar with Sturgeon’s Law (90% of everything’s crap). Sometimes you dig up gold, but when you do, not all of it is gold. Most of it’s shit—which isn’t good for my mental health because I for some reason can’t stop reading them. It’s a habit.
Overused tropes, cliches, cardboard cut-out characters, lack of originality, failure to live up to potential, needless fillers, bloated descriptions to reach a word-count, overindulgence in escapism or power-fantasy (at the detriment of story ie), etc. I don’t need to list it out. You all know. You all also know the disappointment one feels, when, having invested 30 chapters into boring filler, something so stupid happens that you drop the story, annoyed as if betrayed by the author for having led you by the nose.
Once you’ve read webnovels for long enough, a voice starts to grow in you, a whisper at first, soon yelling: ‘I can write better than this—trash! Jesus Christ, just do it already!’ And so you do it (if you’re me). That’s how I got into writing 5 years ago. I still write of course, and I’ve gotten a lot better than my former self (an arrogant newbie who thought he was good? Pah!), but I still haven’t done what got me into writing in the first place: which're the mistakes, still sticking out like a sore thumb, in those stories I read as a teen.
So I’m going to do what the title says. I’m going to rewrite the stories that’ve failed to live up to their potential.
It’s not a bad idea if you give it some thought. By doing this, I’ll improve, I’ll destress, I’ll actually pump out chapters (bye-bye decision paralysis!), and the harsh feedback (if they do come) won’t phase me much since I won’t have as much personal investment behind it, and I’ll actually learn something and improve. The only cons I see is that, it’s not very flattering to have your work ‘corrected’, even if you yourself admit that your work was jaded. So what to do? I’m going to correct the works of authors who can’t read english. It’s that simple.
On my journey towards inner-peace, I’m going to start with The Novel’s Extra. Why? Mainly because I have notes lying around for it. And I’m about to read it for the 3rd time. Also, I’ve read the fanfics, as well as a few derivatives (The Author’s POV comes to mind, which explicitly admits to being heavily inspired by it, and it shows), among other reasons.
If y’all have something against me for this, just know that, if you think about it, I’m just out here making the world a better place
.
TLDR : I'm making fanfics now.
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