/lit/ - Literature

>>13201641
honestly, i dont think he's wrong, at least not entirely. writing is a massive personal undertaking, you do need to know why you're writing and be honest with yourself or you'll waste months or years on something you feel bad about.

for personal reasons, a lot of why im writing is to win some approval so compared to someone who's making a statement im focusing more on story and characters than metaphor

why is it so much easier to write 1000 words of flash fiction than 1000 words of novel? my character interactions are so goddamn and out of character it's unbelievable

/sffg/, im having problems balancing something. part of the conflict of my setting is that the MCs don't have a reliable source of food. there's no crops, no shops, and most wild animals and plants are inedible. I decided to include "mana" as a filling but unsatisfying food substitute, but the problem is mana is also the setting's main source of magic and is in extremely high demand to the point of violence by the sentient wildlife. I could add more edible nonsentient wildlife, but then there isn't really a food shortage

the way I see it I have two options: either I make the main characters gatherers or craftsmen who trade for a meager amount of mana, which is boring, or make the edible wildlife deadly, which makes it unlikely that the human cast, most of whom are under 15 could have survived.

what do you recommend?