I have stories in my head ( broad strokes). I can vividly imagine narrative moments in media res that I would love to do justice to by filling out the before and after. I create personalities in my head that I talk to and could transcribe. I know what themes and motifs I would like to touch... but every time I sit down to actually try and drag these imaginings into reality my mind goes blank. I sit, I struggle, I am at a crossroad amidst a blank void.

How do I learn how to give structure to this impulse to create fiction? Where do I learn how to create a program or methodology that allows me to take these abstract yearnings and give them a concrete form?

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening.

    • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      That’s really cool advice. I never woulda thought of paraphrasing something I liked as an exercise.

      Thank you :meow-hug:

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      :this:

      essentially what roleplay designed around the setting of any popular series/book/etc usually results in lol. Can't tell you the number of times I basically rewrote Naruto/Bleach/Dragonball Z as a kid on a bunch of forum roleplay sites like that.