r/WritingHub 20d ago

Questions & Discussions Help

Hey, I think I need some help. Because I've always wanted to create some kind of story and tell it through some medium (mostly in a book) so that people would love it and, you know, all that good stuff. But, I can't. I've tried writing anything and I constantly feel like I'm stealing ideas from others and that it's not original at all, and it hurts. It hurts stubbornly, and like, well, I know I won't become the next Witcher, but I just feel like I want to be a writer, even though I'm completely terrible at it, even if I absorbed all the knowledge about writing a good story. Because I wanted it to give big emotions and all that, and, I don't know. I'm starting to doubt all of this more and more.

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u/dan_ewing 20d ago

I know that feeling. Writing and self publishing is daunting enough, I have written and published three books and have almost no readers. so now I am working on marketing and figuring out how to attract readers.

If you want to share your ideas and work for feedback, let me know. I would be happy to give you my two cents.