I'm a young fantasy writer and I'd love to hear your experiences, thoughts, questions, and rants about how perfect all of your characters are! Tell me anything and everything, and if you have a question, I will have an answer.
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I wanna pitch an animated show idea to adult swim.
My head is FULL of ideas, to where I just lay and bed and daydream because I need to be in a very special kind of mood to write. One of my story ideas I’m trying to write (not really -_-) is taking forever. One story idea, I have in a notebook and haven’t written in in FOREVER, and my final story idea, is a rather successful role play Discord server filled with the most amazing people called ‘After the Storm.’ My characters.. I only have a handful, but I love them all so very much. And most of them are named after states, but I have been breaking away from this, FINALLY. My brain is so stupid but anyway I have a character named Seraphina and another one named December
I had a long phase where I loved that sort of name! I'm still quite fond of them, but currently I'm more into 'normal' names. I started out similarly to you, sort of just spamming out stories and writing the first few pages or writing down all of the characters, but I fell totally in love with one of my ideas, finished the first draft (embarrassingly short but then again I was 11 and 53 pages is a lot to an 11 yo) not too many years ago, got closer finishing the second one a few months ago (around 130 pages when I left off) before I realized realized the plot and characters could be improved greatly and now I'm around 20 some pages into the third and hopefully final draft. If you're much like me, you're gonna get a lot further than being plagued by story ideas, but then again all of us are different people and if its the writing itself that you can't find a groove for, I'd recommend trying to draw a comic/graphic novel instead. They're very fun imo
Only two of my seven characters use she/her pronouns and this is me admitting my faults. It's most likely bc I'm transmasc and I wrote in 1st person, but I have a feeling that I might get canceled eventually. I'm nervous but also I suck at writing characters who use she/her or are fem, just bc I get uncomfortable unless they're characters who I know very well. (For more info, my MCs pronouns, respectively, are they/them, he/they, another he/they, he/they with stress on the he, and they/them but prefers masc nouns, she/her and she/they. Yes, I use he/they). Just ranting about my bad writing habits. If anyone has any serious tips I'd love them!
I have another character who uses he/they/it but they're technically a sidekick type character/love interest even though to do get a good amount of POV chapters.
Do you want to know how many stories i have in my head? TOO MANY. One is adventure/fantasy two are sifi, one if a mix of the two, ect... I am only writing one rn, but i want to write them ALL.
