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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79005 on: July 27, 2014, 11:17:42 pm »

Your idea seems stupid? Write it anyway. One of two things will happen. Either it will turn out just as badly as you thought, in which case you'll have practice for the next one, or the stupidity will prove to be an illusion and you'll have created something worth having. Win-Win.
Aye, if you worry too much about having *good ideas* and berate yourself for coming up with bad ones, soon you'll have an aversion to coming up with any ideas at all, for fear of them being bad.

Coming up with ideas is first, practice that. You can manually filter out the bad ones to start with. Eventually you'll be able to filter them out automatically.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79006 on: July 28, 2014, 12:22:32 am »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79007 on: July 28, 2014, 12:28:13 am »

Flappy Bird + 50 Shades of Grey
Hmm.... seems like an idea.

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« Reply #79008 on: July 28, 2014, 12:49:49 am »

But then, when I try to start, I just think, "Do you realize how stupid those ideas are? You'll probably mess up somewhere and it'll end up horrible. Or, best case scenario, you do it just right, but then everyone will hate you for doing it because, as I said before, they are incredibly stupid."
And then I don't do anything.
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Those aren't stupid, having seen your work in question. That thought speaks of doubt and uncertainty. Reinforce your thoughts before moving on in life or troubles ahead will sprout.
That's similar to problems I've had in which I fear the response rather than I'm doing it so I'm pretty stuck here with finished works just waiting to be uploaded.
And the problems stem in thought. Getting over it though from self-therapy. ._.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79009 on: July 28, 2014, 02:23:38 am »

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79010 on: July 28, 2014, 03:23:56 am »

The thing is successful people don't care that their ideas are stupid.

Mate: Flappy Bird. 50 Shades of Grey. Highly successful stupid shit is the norm, not the exception. You'd have to be amazingly talented at being stupid to create stuff where everyone will hate you because it's so stupid. There's some steep competition for that crown.

No matter how stupid it is, someone will buy it. Basically minimize the number of outstanding projects, prioritize them by size and how worthwhile they are. You're not going to make much money off a "Let's Play" video series for example, and they can take a long time. That's the sort of thing I'd put way down on the back burner.

Short stories are a great use of time though, get those written, there's a lot you can do with the format. Work in chunks, a novel is really a series of short stories after all, break it down and set small goal. You can smoosh all the stories together later on computer nowadays, so it really doesn't matter what order you write chapters.
To add weight to the last paragraph: remember that the Foundation trilogy was originally just a series of short stories :v
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79011 on: July 28, 2014, 03:27:56 am »

Iain M Banks culture series also originated in a short story called "State of the Art" which explored and codified underlying universe elements well before any longer novels appeared.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79012 on: July 28, 2014, 04:41:47 am »

I sometimes wish this wasn't a joke. But then I realize this is B12, and snap the fuck out of it.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79013 on: July 28, 2014, 04:13:09 pm »

I detest a family member.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79014 on: July 28, 2014, 04:15:04 pm »

Personally, I like it.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79015 on: July 28, 2014, 04:15:51 pm »

I detest a family member.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79016 on: July 28, 2014, 05:33:27 pm »

Behold, this amazing fan-fiction linked from the WTF thread. Can your writing be worse than that?
Seen worse. This one Twilight fanfic where Edward was roundhouse kicking ninjas in central park before meeting not!Mary Sue comes to mind...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79017 on: July 28, 2014, 06:22:53 pm »

I'm scared that I'm going to grow old and permanently lose the chance to be physically attractive. It feels like I'm racing against time here in the hope that I get at least a single year that I'm not ugly before it gets ruined by age.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79018 on: July 28, 2014, 06:48:46 pm »

I wouldn't worry about that. Many old people can still look very physically attractive, and besides, you're really young right now.
And you're already handsome~

Or 'still'.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #79019 on: July 28, 2014, 06:51:12 pm »

Looks<Confidence, as far as I am aware. As long as a person has a face and isn't a gibbering maniac I'm pretty sure they can be attractive to someone if they put themselves out there.
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