/lit/ - Literature

>>20715389
I know what you mean. If what I'm reading isn't real, or the way it's written isn't super engaging, I just can't care. It's like I'm wasting my time. Even when I write my own story, which would be considered Sci fi or something like that, I *have* to base it off of as much reality as I can. I can't just pull shit out if my ass because it seems like it would be cool, or I think it's something original. Which is kind of sad, too, because when I first started writing it, I COULD just reach up my ass for some idea and then run with it.

It's actually a lot like growing up. When you first start, any idea can be taken as a good one, and you can run to the hills with it all without consequence. The story doesn't rally have ti make sense, and no one will really call you out for any inconsistencies. But once you get older, once the story gets a decent amount of pages under its belt, it all has to start turning into something. It can't *just* be this thing you're writing any more. It can't *just* be this thing you do on your spare time. Now it requires careful thought and consideration, research, real investments of time...

And it's still the story I love. Really. But there are just all these things that popped up that didn't matter at the start and jow they do. They sometimes make the whole thing less enjoyable. I don't want to just stop writing. I don't want to just let it all go to waste, but it's not quite as fun as it used to be. And it probably never will be. All because it simply *has* to make sense.