I don’t give away all of my story, just enough to get an idea of it. Like I said last time:
“Amanda argued with the girl who showed her around the school (Tamora).”
And then I said a little more, but not tied tightly to the scene. And that sentence wasn’t so revealing.

Anyway, I’ve rambled enough. Welcome to the party and hope some of this helped.

Thanks so much for the warm welcome and advice! I’m taking it to heart and I’m really excited to continure

In my story I have 1 Female, 2 males and a male beast as the “main characters”. my MC is the female, and the others fall in order of beast, male 1 and male 2 (secondary, but still main characters). I’ve decided to start at the beginning with these guys, so I have female lead and animal introd. What I’ve been working on since I’ve started here is the intro to male 1. Which is interesting. I never really understood when people said their chars just did something on their own. My thought was always “they are of your imagination… how can they do something unexpected by you?” BUT! it happened today. I only made 302 words, but in those, Male 1 went and was irritated and hissed at female. He was supposed to kinda give in to her most of the time, because he’ s protecting her from everything. But here it is, they’re only children, and he’s ready to give her a boot in the pants. lol

Also, I was wondering everyone’s opinion on posting snippets of stories/plot ideas etc online? sometimes, I’m nervous to, because you’re just throwing your idea out there to anyone who wants to take it, others I really want to in order to get feedback

And last but not least, I suppose it would be ok to have the MC’s names out at least? It’s going to be a pain in the butt having to write out “female lead” Male 1, male 2 and beast character each time I talk about them… lol

If you love your work, nothing else matters. Honest, don’t worry about if readers will like it. First off, if it’s not written, there are no readers to worry about, so you’re set. Second, if it’s partly written, then the only readers are people you show it to, which is probably maybe…two or three people, although zero is preferable. And you’re still set, because they don’t know the story you are trying to tell, and their opinions don’t usually include intimate knowledge of first draft roughness. It’s like pottery–you’re working in wet clay (commonly known as mud) and others are wondering why there’s no color and why it’s a little saggy and squishes when you try to pick it up, because all they are used to is finished, watertight vases and coffee mugs. And you know the pile of gunk they just squished is going to be a rare one-of-a-kind work of functional art–so long as they stop squishing it long enough for you to work on it. (Yeah, figuring out THAT metaphore was what I did this weekend.

And sometimes when you jump in, you get the relevant details to start your worldbuilding with. In one of my current WIPs, the setting is the scrubby edge of the desert, but I didn’t know it was until I got 2k words into the bugger and realized I’d just described a place exactly the same way Mom had when she talked about working there…lol.

Anyway, just wanted to say hi! You can do this, and when you can’t, we’re here to help. : D

Spent most of today writing a scene where the runaway princess gets nabbed by slavers and then threw it out – too tacky – it would’ve given me a good op. for her to unleash her powers without knowing it, but I’m not fond of ye olde contrived damsel in distress situations.

I told my best friend about it and she randomly dropped ‘should have had her steal a dress’. Brain sparked. Questions started popping into it – what kind of dress, from who, why? Friend added ‘you said she didn’t have any good traveling clothes’.

That little gem has turned into a much better scene.

Joining this group today! I got 322 words today. I haven’t yet done any real worldbuilding or much structure yet. So I feel like I’m doing this somewhat bass-akwards. Just decided to start writing the damned thing, haha.

I’m nervous about writing it, I love the story myself, but worried that it will seem.. dumb to others? I’ve taken a different path with my MC that I, myself, haven’t seen in a while, but I don’t know if it will be of interest to readers. I took the newsletter “write for yourself” to heart, but nervous none the less!

This looks like fun tho!