Fighterman481
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So, I have a story I've been writing as a sort of hobby over the past year or so in bits and pieces. I've recently thought it might be nice to post it to a site such as this, but I've hit a bit of a snag.
I've got a frustrating writing style in which I find it hard to think of the next scene before I finish the current one, even if I'm struck with a sort of writer's block. Any time I try to think of what happens past the scene, my mind just zeroes back in on what I'm currently writing. This has, in my opinion, lead to a directionless story as I had no clue what I wanted to have the ending actually be. Recently I had a bit of an epiphany, and found a direction I wanted to take the story, but that's caused its own issue.
Basically, I realized that I want to do a rewrite of most of what's happened, to trim the fat and generally make the story more consistent, not only in plot but in terms of PoV and other similar things, polishing the story so the quality is more consistent.
Unfortunately, the story is roughly 70k words at the time of this post, meaning there's a lot to go through, and to make matters worse, I'm suffering from a case of uncertainty that I think partially stems from my writing style. As I wrote all the scenes sequentially, and each scene shaped what the next one was going to be, in my mind all of them seem "necessary" to the plot, even though intellectually I know there's got to be quite a few that just...aren't. So, I was wondering if it would be considered acceptable to post what I currently have to this site to see what people like and what they don't, and use that to help overhaul the "intro" 70k I have right now. I would, of course, have a foreword of sorts letting people know that much of the "intro" is subject to change and that there's no pressure to give any feedback, I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't be committing a major faux pas by doing something like this.
Thanks in advance for your replies!
I've got a frustrating writing style in which I find it hard to think of the next scene before I finish the current one, even if I'm struck with a sort of writer's block. Any time I try to think of what happens past the scene, my mind just zeroes back in on what I'm currently writing. This has, in my opinion, lead to a directionless story as I had no clue what I wanted to have the ending actually be. Recently I had a bit of an epiphany, and found a direction I wanted to take the story, but that's caused its own issue.
Basically, I realized that I want to do a rewrite of most of what's happened, to trim the fat and generally make the story more consistent, not only in plot but in terms of PoV and other similar things, polishing the story so the quality is more consistent.
Unfortunately, the story is roughly 70k words at the time of this post, meaning there's a lot to go through, and to make matters worse, I'm suffering from a case of uncertainty that I think partially stems from my writing style. As I wrote all the scenes sequentially, and each scene shaped what the next one was going to be, in my mind all of them seem "necessary" to the plot, even though intellectually I know there's got to be quite a few that just...aren't. So, I was wondering if it would be considered acceptable to post what I currently have to this site to see what people like and what they don't, and use that to help overhaul the "intro" 70k I have right now. I would, of course, have a foreword of sorts letting people know that much of the "intro" is subject to change and that there's no pressure to give any feedback, I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't be committing a major faux pas by doing something like this.
Thanks in advance for your replies!