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  1. CynicalStrawberry

    When is a story "complete"?

    I've been writing a story for a while (couple years), and I have 40ish chapters. I'm losing my interest in it, so I'm thinking of ending it at the nearest stopping point (45 chapters). Originally, the story was going to have one more arc (two out of the three arcs are done), and the last chapter...
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    Leveraging Real Life into Stories

    I've recently experienced grief for the first time in my life, and I wanted to leverage the emotion into my stories. Have you guys ever done that? Not necessarily with grief, just using real-life events or emotions in your stories. How would you do it? Put the mc in a similar situation? Or do...
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    How do you get the motivation to finish a story after leaving it for a while?

    I have a story that I stopped writing a couple of months ago because life became busy. It's at chapter 35 which, for me, is longer than anything else I've ever written. I know where the story is going, at least in the next 15 chapters or so. However, after reading the latest chapter I have...
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