You ever come up with a story idea you don’t think you would be able to pull off?

[ElijahRyne]

I recently came up with an idea I have been working on, but the more I do the more I feel inadequate to pull it off. How about you, and if you are willing what is the idea?

P.S. If you want me to show my work, I will

 

[So_Indecisive]

A man who has felt small all his life due to his unsupportive parents, failed career and strained marriage reincarnates and becomes a giant.
The thing is the giants growth in size deals more with spiritual belief in themselves and self affirmation.
How can a guy who's felt so small for so long truly grow to step on planets.

My main fear is that I'll not be able to show that sense of spiritual and mental growth and quickly devolve the story into a generic power fantasy.

 

[CSDestroyer]

I do not have a specific story idea that I do not feel like I am able to pull off; that might be because I generally have an aversion to fantasizing about writing books that are far out of my capabilities to write. But for the ones that do, they usually land in one of three categories:

Requires Lots Of Historical Research
I want to write historical fiction, but that is hard to do. Even with the internet, finding the very nitty-gritty details of historical matters are the hardest part. Not general details, like how a battle went, but things that are far more specific. How did the life of a sailor on the Union's Mississippi River Squadron fare during the Civil War? That kind of information is information I will need to go to a niche historian for, and I know none with that field of study.

Paradoxically, I am also much less confident writing about the near-past. Think the 70s to the 90s. I never lived through those time periods, and if I get anything wrong there definitely are people today who have lived through those years, and could call BS on things I make up. So, other than interviewing people who lived in that era, conducting research is also somewhat difficult.

Requires Lots of Scientific Research
Hard sci-fi is fun. I like thinking of both near-future and far-future hypothetical scenarios. But if I want to be accurate, I'll need to go to sources like Children of a Dead Earth, where you practically need to be a nuclear engineer, rocket scientist, and weapons specialist to understand a game like that. I eventually want to eventually write a story about Paperclip Maximizers, but that plan is far in the future.

Requires Me To Be Very Intelligent
Heavily logic-based fictions, where manipulating people and stepping through philosophy are the norm. I have a friend who has an enviable mind when it comes to logic, and poking holes in logic; figures that he is also in the tech field. I've seen him do terrifying things in games, homebrewing his own exploits and ripping holes through anticheats, and he applies that same line of thinking to stories: "Why can't [the protagonist] [play with the laws of physics] in that setting?" I suspect that he does not enjoy a lot of media because of that, but I typically refer to him if I have a hunch that a storyline of mine has a hole or two. He's good at seeing things like that.

I do not have that kind of brainpower. I wish I did, but a logicfic is completely out of my realm of ability to make.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

I always feel that way. In fact, it's the biggest reason for hiatus on my stories and the fact that I've never written a second volume of any of my serializations up to this day. It's usually that I feel like I can't do the story I've imagined justice and the longer it takes to write it, the bigger that feeling grows, until I'm in front of a mountain that I'm unable to climb. I don't ever drop stories, but there's so many that I will likely never finish, it's saddening.
It's one of the things I need to finally get over. I've come to the conclusion that it's my story and only can tell it the way I imagined it. And if the first draft isn't perfect, I will work it out somehow. Even if it's the third override, I can change it until it's truly what I want it to be. As long as I write it at all, all can be done later. I'm trying to work that out at the moment, though it doesn't always work perfectly, I've had that problem recently where I had mental problems because of work and was incapable of writing a certain scene, so my Webnovel went on hiatus for four months or so. But I've done it and continued two weeks ago.
I'm also afraid of the second season, because in the print version, this will mark the second volume, which, as I mentioned, has never happened to this day.

Many words, so what is my calling here? I just want to tell you to try it anyway. Even if you wait, nothing will come of it. If you evolve your writing (hell, my writing has been changing over the years so many times, but the essence always remained the same), override it later, nothing stops you aside from yourself.

 

[Katsurandom]

If no one has written the idea I got. I do it and throw it around to see if someone else uses it.

I mostly write for myself to amuse myself tho. So not sure how good my advice is.

 

[RepresentingEnvy]

Yeah, it's called The Last Progenitor. And exactly why it's undergone 3 rewrites from having 65 chapters to now having 6. And it still is mehbleh

 

[Keriahenta]

Yeah the reason i always stop at chapter 2

 

[RepresentingEnvy]

Yeah the reason i always stop at chapter 2

*hugs*

 

[Tempokai]

Actually heartwarming romance because I've never had romantic relationships

 

[TotallyHuman]

Often

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Every country is a self-aware memetic being and they talk by the color shirts people wear. They perform actions like a JRPG game.

AMERICA CASTS DEFENSE SPENDING.

It was gonna be a comedy.

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

Its the main reason why almost the novels I wrote actually remain unfinished. My imagination is endless yet my brain power can't keep up with the ideas I have. I tried to outline, remake or even dumb down to the point where I can work it out but I always run into multiple problems that got to a point where I basically had to abandon them due to sheer lack of processing power to keep up with my ideas.

I had an idea where I want to write a fanfic on Honkai Impact 3 where the MC's past life being exposed(everyone but the MC can't see his past life) since I've been delving into MTL lately(Honkai/Genshin Fanfics) and wanted to write one out of sheer interest.

But I ended up running into a problem about how the setting goes(basically blind since I barely played the two games and only read fanfics about them) so I ended up being stuck and unable to decide if I want to invest by diving more into the games or just scrap the idea.

 

[doravg]

No. I start a story, write until all ends are tied, then start the next one.