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Thought I'd make one of those motivational threads to hopefully get around writing and actually finishing something. Honestly, I'm really fucking scared of posting any of my writing here - and letting anyone read it before I think it's absolutely completely perfect - but here goes. Yes, you may slap me if/when I made/make an awful (noobish) mistake. Yes, you may also slap me when I'm procrastinating by planning and drafting and organising and things like that. Here goes.

Basically the story I'm writing (haven't really come up with a fitting title yet) is about a guy who's looking for his "girl". All the family he's ever even had declared him mad, mental, because according to them he doesn't even have a daughter or even anything remotely close to it. He however truly believes that she has gone missing and obviously the objective is to find her. He feels like nobody understands him, truly he does have memories of his daughter, playing together, what she looked like. Often times he talks to her, alone but also with people around because he doesn't care what they say anymore. Whether or not she's actually real....

Prologueish thing
She's lost. She's always been lost, even when you were together. But now she doesn't get the feeling of your warmth, your love for her. It is really there. You do truly feel and she's your proof that you're still human, and not the lowly life form some think you to be. The emotions you have for her are greater than you have ever felt for anyone else in your life. The times you shared together are so crystal clear in your mind among the madness and the chaos, that it is as if she wanted you to remember her. You want to remember her. Some things are fading slowly and you don't want the nothingness take place of those joyous memories. It's the nothingness that is the worst. The forgetting. The thought that nothing is forever, nothing lasts. Some day you will be gone too, and together with you the memories you kept so proudly will wither and die. What's worse might be the thought that, maybe, she's not even there anymore. That all your hard work has proven useless. It would break you, it would. It would crumble and shatter the broken and torn apart pieces you exist of. She didn't leave any clues for you. You don't know where she went or what happened after she disappeared that one night. The walls began to close in on you and the passion you felt grew so much stronger, as it is still growing with every moon that rules the night and every sun that rules the sky. She's a strong girl. She'll make it. But she's lost, and you have to find her.

*cracks whip* Write goddamn it write!

Getting kinky here, beta?..
*scurries off to go write*

You can do it! You can do it!

Progress! Yay. Good for you. :)

P..progress..? Where? *looks around*
No, thank you. Slowly I'm getting somewhere rather than planning. It's an easy way of procrastinating.

xD Fair enough. Starting these things does tend to encourage progress, though.

Da, I hope. At least it reduce your options of chickening out of it xD And it helps to give you an idea if your story is actually good.. Which was obviously the case with any of your storygames.

xD Thanks, but no, I've had some ill-conceived ideas in the past--it's just that they were never published.

But that comes with experience as a writer as well as a person.. My ideas, not so much. I'm not a writer, nor a roleplayer, but an artist, a gamer second and a coder third. I just have fun in writing as much as I do in making art, whether or not I'm good at it.

Isn't having fun one of the main reasons we're all here? Writing has more purposes than just that, granted, but I'd say the enjoyment you get out of it--whether reading or writing--is a big part of it all. I've also heard it said that life is about the journey, not the destination. It's cliche, but I think it's true of creating something, too.

Hmm, well, you're right, it is the most important. But other than that you have to thinking specific site regulations, and mainly quality or else nobody is going to enjoy it. I joined NaNoWriMo once- then realized I didn't have the skill to do it by far. I just can't hammer out 30,000 or 50,000 words in a month. That's just not my thing and I didn't enjoy it. I'm sure others found it challenging to test themselves. They had way more fun in doing that than me. I would say that if you don't enjoy doing something there's no way it's going to be an Epic. It can be good, it might even actually be very good, but nothing is as important to a story as having fun. The journey is very important, to anything (CYS storygames are a great example of just that) but sometimes you need to look where you're going before you do something. What do I want? What's my destination? Without that, you'd definitely get lost.

Life is like a car. Sometimes the street decides to allow you to just go where you want. Sometimes there are detours. But though those detours are annoying, they are a chance to show you new things.

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Just wanted to say something inspirational. 

Haha, thanks, Goody. It is definitely inspirational.

No real progress, I'm sorry. Just planning is all. And drafting. Rewriting. I think I only just finished a page or two in a week.. *sigh*This isn't going according to plan (I could know, I plan too much). Hit a giant red brick wall in terms of "how the hell am I going to describe this". I'm good at seeing images in my head, not all that great at putting them into text form (which makes succeeding all the more interesting). I can perfectly feel what the PC is feeling.. But I don't know how to make the reader feel the same. Otherwise, bwah. School is starting and my anxiety hit me hard today.

Will try my best to cram out some pages tonight.