When I am in the middle of writing a story, I feel like it is going to be so bomb, like it will be awesome, what am I even doing on Episode, I should write a real book instead. Then I save it, preview it and… Instead of bomb it’s just dumb. It’s a flop, it feels like random scenes thrown together and my dialogues are meant to be entertaining, but they just bore me to death instead. And then I can’t help but think - where is that hyper super story I was writing?
Hahaha so true!
I’ve felt so smug and content with my idea, that I’m like: This will make the episode team beg for me to become one of their official writers.
And then when I play it, I’m like: That’s… not… how i pictured it in my head… Maybe I should just spare people the pain of reading this…
I’ve never related to a post more. I feel like I write this eloquent, intense, witty dialogue, but when I actually preview it, it seems so flat.
Same with directing. I’ll spend forever coding something I think will look really cool, but then I preview the scene and the “cool” directing bit is over in the blink of an eye.
My directing doesn’t really disappoint me, since I know I’m not good at it.
But I thought I write good dialogues, and it sucks to realize that I don’t.
Hahaha, well… You’re at least not the only one.
I could check out your story though, if you pm me a link.
So I could tell you if it is completely unreadable or just a bit lower than mediocre!
This is my mood 24/7 hahaha. When I first came up with the idea for my story, I was really like “yes, this is gonna be LIT!!” but yeah, when I preview it now, it feels nothing like what I thought it’d do hahah
I’m never that confident about my stories but I do think I’m funny and the new update will be the best one yet, then I preview it and it’s exactly how you described it! Bunch of random scenes thrown together, weird jumps and cuts, rushed dialogues, … As if the story is not flowing, if that makes sense.
This happened to me when I first started out writing on the Episode platform. I thought my first story was bomb, and that everybody would love it. Looking back at my 2015 and 2016 mind, I realize that my first story is very crying. Of course, I loved the story idea and title when I came up with it, but I’m older now. Therefore, I have to write about new things.