Frustrated Writer Support Group

[Ookla she/her]

2 hours ago, Hmmm lies said:

Yeah, my main characters' relationship is completely healthy. They love each other, and that's great.

Of course, it does add some tension that the two girls are living in a society in which homosexuality is illegal, and therefore must keep it completely private, also one of them is the most wanted criminal in the empire, and as such has basically 0 human contact outside of her girlfriend. (The other is a master criminal too, but she just never got caught)

In that case, I don't see a problem with them having a healthy relationship. They've got enough going against them as it is; I figure they'll need all the support from one another that they can get.  Whatever you think is best for your story, though!! I won't be mad if you disregard my opinion.

Edited March 25, 2024 by Ookla

[Gak he/him]

 Not sure if the frustrated writers support group is the right place for this, but I learned that when I give myself a concrete goal like blank words in a month I can totally pump out a chapter or two a day (this does not make the chapters high quality, and now I need to edit all of them, but still)

in other news I made a source of unlimited energy in the form of animated fire that provides heat without needing fuel, and I don’t know if I need to do something to prevent that from being a problem, or if it would cause too much of an issue.

Edited April 29, 2024 by Gak

[Ookla she/her]

38 minutes ago, Gak said:

 Not sure if the frustrated writers support group is the right place for this, but I learned that when I give myself a concrete goal like blank words in a month I can totally pump out a chapter or two a day (this does not make the chapters high quality, and now I need to edit all of them, but still)

in other news I made a source of unlimited energy in the form of animated fire that provides heat without needing fuel, and I don’t know if I need to do something to prevent that from being a problem, or if it would cause too much of an issue.

Yes, this is totally the right place for this! Welcome!

For the unlimited energy concept, I advise thinking through what that sort of thing would be used for. Humans have a tendency to exploit useful things in every way imaginable. If thinking through the ways your tech would be used breaks your story, you might need to reconsider it, but you also never know if one of those exploitations might end up being one of the coolest parts of the story!

[Gak he/him]

35 minutes ago, Ookla said:

Yes, this is totally the right place for this! Welcome!

For the unlimited energy concept, I advise thinking through what that sort of thing would be used for. Humans have a tendency to exploit useful things in every way imaginable. If thinking through the ways your tech would be used breaks your story, you might need to reconsider it, but you also never know if one of those exploitations might end up being one of the coolest parts of the story!

thanks, I am happy with the theoretically unlimited energy, but I have run into a new problem, the opposite can also be true. to put it simply you can make water immediately freeze, but now I need to figure out if the energy the water had is A) consumed/destroyed. ejected directly into the surrounding air. or C) a tiny part of the water gets all the energy and immediately evaporates.

I am leaning toward C because its the most interesting/fun, but the magic system messes with this a little

spoiler because it starts getting a bit more long winded as I go more into the magic system

Spoiler

alright, so basically how the magic system works is that there is a substance called lifedust (for now) that appears when something dies, and it can be used to animate things when combined with matter and an identity, (which can be in the form of a dead person or a poem/story) generally animated stuff just moves around and stuff, but some things do more, for example if you animate magma it consumes much more life dust to maintain its temperature. now the issue is the idea of an elemental that is water that can freeze itself is very cool, but because changing temperature doesn't break its identity does the superheated portion also maintain its identity? more importantly, since we've already ignored thermodynamics should I just say the energy is destroyed to balance/shunted into another dimension to balance it out? would that just be more confusing? currently lifedust only creates energy, (mostly kinetic) but I could probably have it pull that energy from something like the energy dimension, and then say that that's also where it puts energy it takes away as well, so now I'm unsure, and I'm raising more questions for myself as I write this so I think I just need to step away and work this out okay thanks for listening/reading bye!

 

[Hmmm lies she/her]

I FINISHED MY NOVELLA

I guess that means... I'm not frustrated anymore... so I'm not longer welcome here.
 

Wait! No! I still can't think of a title for it, and that frustrates me. I can stay here!

[Ookla she/her]

2 hours ago, Hmmm lies said:

I FINISHED MY NOVELLA

I guess that means... I'm not frustrated anymore... so I'm not longer welcome here.
 

Wait! No! I still can't think of a title for it, and that frustrates me. I can stay here!

Whoooooooo!!!!

Good luck with your title!!

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

sigh! i have bitten off more than I can chew. i am trying to write a book without knowing how one of the character will react. basically I am asking if anyone wants to help write a book with me from opposing prespecitevs. a complete book from the heroes perspective and a complete book from the villens prespective.