/lit/ - Literature

>>20292484
Your premise is fine, most are, but I've heard so many premises and they're frankly cheap - premises are 1/100,000th the value of 1k words of an excellently crafted prose beginning a story. If the premise interests you then it can be done well.

>>20292566
>Ambition premises are always good
I've found the opposite, but this might come down to a writing style/process thing. The more boxes I need to tick the more pressure there is to rush the story along/force character behavior - I do much better with a clearly defined beginning, middle turning point or escalation, and ideal conclusion.

>>20293630
This is not what discovery writing is.

>>20286534
Also as a general question - is it just me or has this general gotten a lot dumber in the last 2 weeks or so? I used to get a lot of neat craft talk/ideas and now several anons are shamelessly asking how to perform basic cognitive functions like "having ideas" and "visualizing"?