Crystal Lacrymosa
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In all the time I've been trying to write things, I don't get very far. I've tried everything from outlining from beginning to end, to writing in parts, to the seat of my pants method, and they always fall flat before I finish them. A few of the major problems I have may stem from the fact that I move too quickly and introduce too much too fast. Pacing has and always will be a problem that I can't seem to fix. And because of this issue, I run out of steam right in the beginning and quit. I had a web serial that I was trying to write and it fell short because of this issue. I have a ton of unfinished things and nothing finished. On top of that my ideas feel very stale and generic to me. I've been told that my plots aren't very fantasy like and that they would fit in the young adult/teen age section rather than the section with the good old fantasy novels that I like to read. There's one story that I've changed a lot over a course of a few years and it still isn't any better than it was when I first started it.
I am at the point where I just want to quit writing because it isn't getting any better. No matter how much I put into something it ends too early and I just end up hating it. How does a story end in the beginning? I don't even get to the middle before that happens. The one time I actually managed to get past that point was during NaNo one year but most of that was pointless writing that made no sense at all. It's sad to where I find it much easier to write for characters that are not mine than to write stories for my own characters. I don't know what to do anymore.
I am at the point where I just want to quit writing because it isn't getting any better. No matter how much I put into something it ends too early and I just end up hating it. How does a story end in the beginning? I don't even get to the middle before that happens. The one time I actually managed to get past that point was during NaNo one year but most of that was pointless writing that made no sense at all. It's sad to where I find it much easier to write for characters that are not mine than to write stories for my own characters. I don't know what to do anymore.