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.
Running a Hexbear server would be fairly easy to do these days, especially since Goon has gone public with their codebase and one can just fork it from their github. Maybe I should look into it, I dream of a day where I can play a Revolution round where I'm not the only head-rev PDA messaging people Lenin quotes.
Another idea you may want to look into would be a MUD. Same idea of text-based RP, but unlike farting spacemen you can easily just join a LOTR/WoT/etc based MUD like MUME or WOTMud. Number of players will always vary, especially with some of the longer-running MUDs - but they're a dime-a-dozen and you can find one for nearly any genre/setting.
ooh, that's awesome idea. I used to play the Wheel of Time MUD. Even took part in the infamous "band of merry mad men"