/lit/ - Literature

I think I wrote something like 3000 words in the past 3 hours and only ended up keeping 1000, but I really enjoyed it. The passage that it replaced was awfully dry.

>>22169779
You might be trying to bite off more than you can chew. Start with the fundamentals of the scene and then continue to flesh it out.
I've been there. You need to open a dialogue with yourself what you already want to do and go for it. Then you can figure out if that's what you want to do and where to go next.

>>18932925
>mfw realize my story is man in a hole but inverted on the X axis
It's like getting out of a bad situation, recovering, only later to discover you will inevitably be ensnared again.

I finished a first draft and analyzed the stakes in the plot. Is salvation/damnation high enough stakes if only some of the consequences are clear? I've heard this is borderline "pretend stakes" and will irritate readers who think the protagonist doesnt have a true dilemma but is just paranoid.
I added a time limit to the fateful decision but not sure if that is enough yet.