"I'm going to finish my damn story!": a support thread

[StillStunned]

Hey just wanted to say thanks for the thread, thanks for the support here. I know you've struggled recently with writing as well. I lost all motivation for almost a year, it's nice to be excited about writing again, and glad you've made progress as well!

Thanks for saying so! Just having this thread has kept me motivated to focus on finishing some stories, and break the habit of giving up as soon as I get bored.

I'm glad it's worked out for you too. For all the discussions we have hear, there's very little in the way of mutual encouragement. It's almost as if we're by ourselves when it comes to the actual writing, even though there are dozens of us facing the same struggles.

I feel that this is one of the things we should be doing as a community: encouraging and supporting each other when we're struggling. And I'm happy to see so many contributing, and benefitting from the encouragement.

 

[StillStunned]

I managed to make a bit of progress on my Dungeon of Desire chapter yesterday, but today I've stalled. The party are about to encounter the demon, but I can't decide how to play it out. Is Theayala going to betray Xunaxa? Or will Xunaxa be the difference between death and survival? What form does the demon take?

On the plus side, I think I've got the paladin's Aura of Courage and Detect Evil working as narrative elements. Perhaps a Bless spell too.

I'm no further with the plot decisions, but I just wrote 650 words that will get the party closer. They've found the demon's lair, and it's a bit more "normal creepy pit of doom" than I originally envisioned. That will make it easier to write a gripping encounter, I think, than if the setup is so weird that it distracts or confuses the reader.

 

[StillStunned]

 

[KittyOfSteele]

• Chapter I - 874
• Chapter II - 1500
• Chapter III - 1057
• Chapter IV - 868
• Chapter V - 819
• Chapter VI - 939
• Chapter VII - 0
• Chapter VIII - 0
• Chapter IX - 0
• Chapter X - 0
• Chapter XI - 0
• Chapter XII - 0
• Chapter XIII - 0
• Chapter XIV - 0
• Chapter XV - 0
• Chapter XVI - 0
• Chapter XVII - 0
• Chapter XVIII - 0
• Chapter XIX - 0
• Chapter XX - 0

I'm still writing it. I just read the whole outline and I got pumped to just write the whole story because the outline grabbed me. I think I'll do a couple of chapters more before working out.

Confession: I had to enable harder settings on Unhook to just have music playing.