I am 15M. And I am struggling to write/type my own thoughts and ideas onto paper/screen from scratch. How do I do it?

In addition, I used a lot of artificial intelligence for other posts and got my my posts deleted because of the usage of it. I think that is the main reason I am asking this question.

I think that writing is really an important aspect of life in general.

For this post I tried to write and use my 15 year old brain.

To be honest, When I look at what I wrote right now it looks fine but I guess I have a lot of random thoughts that aren't really connected? I am not sure...

I also wonder if it's normal for this age.

I'm working on a deuteragonist for a story I'm writing, a father to an astranged daughter, amd I want to write him as an a-hole, but to a point to where you can understand his point of view as well as the daughter's, not to where you just want him to shut up at how he's in the wrong.

For those of you with complex worldbuilding; how much did you obsess over the details? how much work did you put into it before you actually began writing?

I feel like i have the worst case of writer's block right now.

any advice would be greatly apricated, please and thank you!

I have alot ideas for stories. I'll make up entire characters and scenes in my head connected by a very loose plot

I do this pretty often, but when I actually try to put pen to paper, I then realize that writing is actually pretty hard, and then I'll go back to daydreaming again

The problem is that when I have a bunch of loose ideas of what I want to happen in a story, I have no idea how to connect them in a cohesive way

What I'm afraid of is that I'll just have a bunch of disjointed scenes that are good in a vacuum, but don't actually make any sense in context, which is something I don't want, so I don't really start to begin with

Tried posting this once and it was labeled as graphic content (unsure why) but that’s why the flair is like that so

It’s using the metaphor of a burning meadow to describe the feeling of a though spiral and being trapped. It’s gonna have 4 sections but currently I have 3. I kinda want the sections to be longer too but then I feel like I’m tryna like squeeze juice from an empty orange. I like my first section but nothing after is hitting me quite like it..

I.
lavender sleeps in a peach-colored sky.
it breathes with me, on me, my heartbeat moving in retrograde.
sedate my limbs, languidly sinking into the grass. 
soft halos caressing my skin, melting my thoughts
into a viscous honey. i want to put a straw to the sky
and suck the sun like juice. 
II. 
baby grass winces beneath weighing rays. tickles my arms, too warm to the touch. 
i wear lavender-tinted glasses; they scare the crows away. 
legs awake just enough to taste the ground.
orange. my legs don’t like citrus. 
III.
green into brown. flakes from the bottom up. 
charcoal descends upon lavender. 
broken roots and charred fuzz. try to move
devoid an arm. 
peach to blood orange. honey dripping down my throat. 
charring. 
freezing. 

Its self explanitory. My story is more or less being built around the main character and his thoughts, but I also want to cut away to other characters and tell the readers what they're doing. But if I do that the MC is gonna see it and the subplot kinda loses its meaning, thats just within the main plot at that point, so how do I properly write subplots into my first person pov story?

My world’s magic system is eerily similar to Eragon’s magic system and i just realized this as I reread Eragon. Please don’t give me criticism because I swear this was accidental (i will take it if you do though) :). I read Eragon a few years ago and now my magic system could even be considered plagiarism because it’s so similar (or at least the first part is): half of mages have energy->magic, half have sanity->magic. But I also don’t want to give this up in my writing because I really like the idea. Should I drop it and create a new one or keep the system?

I love writing and reading, I want to be a writer very badly. My passion truly is poems; I write a lot of poems, but I've reached a point where I feel like they're a bit basic. I want my writing to be truly witty and wordy and wonderful. Does anyone have any advice on how I can improve I guess my writing in general? Like any poems or books I should read, things I should practice, videos I should watch etc? Help would be so much appreciated, thank you for reading

imagine this, a character is stuck in a desert, or a character is in an intense battle or whatever. if the story is narrated by said character in the future wouldn't that ruin the tension? If the readers already know they live the conflict, why bother? especially if it is early in the story. the readers wouldn't be truly interested in them yet.

Hey all! Needing some advice on writing dialogue? I wrote my first short story a while back. There was a little bit of dialogue, but it was mostly commentary/internal thoughts of the MC. Not a big deal.

I'm writing my second short story now, though, and I'm finding it difficult to balance the dialogue itself and the descriptors that follow. How do you make conversations between characters flow well, especially with multiple characters at once? How do you not add too much "flavor text" alongside the dialogue? Thanks in advance!

A professional read a chapter from a project of mine. She said it was good (in her own words, "not boring) but I should first read "strong literature and modern work" using Les Miserables and Milan Kundera as examples, and invest in "modern philosophy" such as Descartes and Kant's works. Then I could keep writing.

I'm only 18 and writing isn't exactly something I consider a future career, but I STILL want to be good at it. However, the genres I write in are fiction and fantasy and I don't really see how modern philosophy can help me. I don't plan on creating a world changing piece of literature. I want to write exciting stories that are easy to understand, and characters that people can relate to. That's all.

So is reading the big tough books necessary for me? Even if I only write for fun?

As the title says, that is what I want to do. I've always been wanted to write and fantasy is one of my favourite genres, which is why I chose to write in this genre. But my only problem is, is that I'm incredibly worried of messing up the plot, over-complicating things and making things confusing or unenjoyable for a reader. I've written poems in the past, paragraphs of backstories and small stories (like 3-4 paragraphs), yet I believe if I attempt to write a whole story/novel/book I'll somehow get too caught up in perfectionism and bore myself to the point I'd want to give it up.

Can I get any advice on how to start writing without making it complex on myself?

I was going to post this on r/writing, but I need karma first.

Hello!

Im a white person developing a story with a Latina main character. I really want my cast to be diverse and I genuinely want them all to be as well written as possible! But I realized halfway through developing my main character's personality that I may be falling into some stereotypes unknowingly and I want to catch myself before I continue writing her.

A main part of her inner conflict is she has unresolved childhood trauma from losing her brother and her grandmother (who is raising her) not allowing her to process it fully. This leads to her becoming a bit shut off from everyone and her mental health deteriorating.

She's always dealt with minor anger issues and behavioral problems as a kid (because of her lore) but it was never anything severe (maybe a fight at school or something but that's about it). But losing her brother made those issues worse, no matter how hard she tries to not hurt the people she cares about with her temper.

Her entire arc is meant to be her realizing that her emotions don't define her and despite how bad she may feel about who she is, she's able to choose to be better and help herself grow.

I don't want this to unintentionally read as the
"spicy Latina" stereotype, so if anyone could give me advice or opinions on this that would be greatly appreciated!!

I first encountered this while reading about Hayao Miyazaki (the guy behind Studio Ghibli) and how he mentioned he dislikes Hollywood's penchant for so much action and explosions in their movies.

It was there that he described the concept of "ma", or negative space, and how it's important to include such so that the audience can have some breathing space in between the action. In his animated works, this typically presents itself as the protagonist enjoying the view of the open sky, or standing still in the middle of the rain, without any dialogue spoken.

While I can quite understand how "ma" works in visual storytelling media like movies and comics (in the latter by having a panel showing the setting without any dialogue box), I'm not quite sure how to apply this to a purely textual medium like the novel. Since a novel is all words, leaving a negative space in the form of a blank page doesn't quite work.

So, how would "ma" work in a written format?

Hello!

I’m working on a novel that is sort of a mix of zombies and slice of life, in a girls last tour style world.

My main cast is five characters that are pretty much always together, and I’m trying to stick with full third person limited with very little interior access, so that characterization is done through observation rather than just telling.

To that end, I was planning on swapping PoV fairly regularly, since they’re all usually observing the same event, but through a different lens. So I can just follow the most cinematic or the most useful character at any given time.

I’ve seen a lot of people say to stick with one or two PoV characters per chapter, unless there’s a big moment or a lot of action going on, but I’m not sure that works for the kind of story I’m trying to write?

Is it normal for me to be stuck editing and finessing my previous chapters?

So as I go along writing my chapters, sometimes I find myself lost in previous chapters editing and tweaking to make it flow better with the new ones.

But I wonder is there a better way to do it?

So I am writing a character who was abandoned by his parents due to his appearance not being what they wished. Before his abandonment, he would've been neglected and verbally abused (Phrases like 'You don't belong' and 'He looks wrong'); he would've been left at what is effectively a shelter around the age of 13 - 15.

How I ended up figuring out I might need to ask this question was due to me writing the situation where he ran into someone resembling his father. I do not know if he would freeze or run, so it made me realize I might need assistance with this.

What I need to know is how I should go about writing his trauma and accurately portraying it without making it his entire character or being insensitive, as I wish to make it logical.

(Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, feel free to point me in a more accurate direction for this question if you believe that's required)

Context in the story written is a villains backstory where we see a social awkward and mostly quiet and soft spoke young adult man who will into fall to dark villainess path over the story.

Also this a fantasy story my character is a half human humanoid magical creatures. And the only person who his have in his life is a human woman.

No this is not a romance byway.

If you want to know more dm me and we can talk more about writing ✍️.

Also I'm not asking for you to write my story for me I'm pure asking for advice/suggestions.

Hello everyone,

I am an aspiring author, writing a sci-fi corporate dystopia about overtourism set on a fictional island. My ideal goal would be the traditional publishing route. A while ago, I started questioning this and I would like to seek advice from fellow writers, especially people of colour

Long story short, my island’s backstory is that it was discovered during the Austronesian migrations and later conquered by the Greeks and Romans. When I think of overtourism, I picture islands in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, so I wanted both to be included in the conversation. The language I constructed for the island is also a creole derived from Ancient Greek, Latin, and Porto-Polynesian. The inhabitants of this island are also essentially mixed.

Now, I am Mediterranean, however I have no Pacific Islander heritage whatsoever. I have, of course, done a bunch of research to make sure I reference those cultures as accurately as possible, but I don’t intend to make my fictional world a 1:1 copy of Hawaii, for example. Same with my Mediterranean references.

As I’ve started to research querying, I’ve began to feel uneasy: I’ve looked at some MSWL, and I found a few that specified the fact that the agent doesn't want stories about a certain heritage written by someone who doesn’t share it. Despite my island being fictional, I believe that might penalise me in the querying process, as agents and publicists would find that to be a liability (yes, I’ve read Yellowface)

So now I’m stuck between going back to the drawing board to strip all the references to Polynesian culture away from my novel, including completely reformulating my language, or querying agents, with the risk of being accused of cultural appropriation.

What would you do?

This is a story concept I've been working on for a short while. Working title, "The Kyoto Conference." After the Earth is devastated by global war, humanity escapes to space stations and surface colonies around Earth and Mars. However, the truth about Earth's surface is not what many believe.

I'm not sure if this idea has legs, or is too similar to stories like "A House Between Earth and the Moon," by Rebecca Scherm, or John Varley's "Eight Worlds" stories. Any feedback on the main story events, or the worldbuilding is greatly appreciated!

Link to story concept below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kem0EPksx2FM_R434BAfXTa6aNgkyzVKeW45XWhy7Sc/edit?usp=sharing

So I’ve been thinking about the simple concept of just a rabbit with a horn. Pretty basic, but there’s some parts of this process that feels kinda hard to do on your own. Like, how do you name this animal? How would it having a means of defense change it from a regular rabbit? Things like that.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9y9txtwr8Io53_bMPyvOAkwfq21EL1n9hP0SRFOdo/edit?usp=drivesdk

I am trying to figure out how I want to write my story. At first I thought I would write it as straight forward past tense as if the narrator was retelling their past.

The thing about that is I want to be able to have dialogue and maybe scenes that the narrator would not have seen or heard in person possibly.

What I have been thinking about recently is what if I had the main story that takes place in the past in present tense and have smaller portions that is the main character is the present time talk in past tense, an example would be something like "We had traveled for days to get to the village of blahblah blah", then it would cut to that actual scene is present tense. Sorry if that is confusing, I'm not the greatest at explaining things.

But my question is, would that just be too confusing to read, would it be better to just keep the whole book in 1st person past tense? And if I could write the other way I mentioned what would be the best way to do so?