/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>25384975
I dont post here usually but heres a fun one

>>19676417
>I AM HERE
What did she mean by this?

>>18281491
Not that anon but I think it's all about mentality. If you go into it like it's an artistic cross to bear, it's going to be terrible and you'll likely fail. If you treat it as a matter of just stringing words together, with the content as an external factor to the process, you'll be much more likely to do well.

I'm gonna blogpost a bit because I do think it applies to the thread (and to any writing thread):

When I was 18, I wrote a 100k word Touhou fic. Because at that time I was a dumb kid convinced anything I wrote was a fundamental expression of my being, the whole process was terrible on me, took me forever, it was exhausting and riddled with doubt because every single word was up for question. It took me over a YEAR to reach that word count and I still ended up abandoning the fic.

Then when I was 23, I tried my hand at writing a TTRPG book. It wasn't anything important, I really didn't particularly care who read it, it didn't matter to me much at all - it was just a hobby project, my take on a particular engine concept that I liked a lot but that I thought hadn't been done justice. I had a blast writing that game (mechanically it was ass though), and had a 50k word draft done in two weeks, lore and all.

Then, at 25, I tried writing a fantasy novel, and went back to my teenage mentality. THIS was going to be my breakout - and if it wasn't, at the very least it was going to be my philosophical, aesthetic, and romantic manifesto, something my whole life had led up to! Predictably, the whole process was god-awful, with every single word or turn of phrase being a value judgment not just on my ability as a writer but as a person. It took me some 8 months to reach a 150k word draft, and the novel was fucking terrible. That shit broke me and I didn't write again for years.

Now, at 29, soon 30, I'm writing unhinged fanfic about chuubas getting into chuuni fights and NSFW scenes, and I'm having a blast. The words flow like water, one after the other - I do, fundamentally, still want to make something good, that anons will enjoy, but in the end what matters to me now is first that I'm having fun, and second that I got whatever plot bunny I had out of my head and onto paper. I'm making content for its own sake, without an ulterior motive, and that in turn means the content comes out much faster because I'm not constantly questioning it and judging it.

>>17915191