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Anonymous12/08/25, 00:09No.97133758/wg/ - Writing General (and Storythread)
Writing General: 'festive' edition
Welcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.
As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.
There's a discord for writers here
https://discord.gg/6AwKHGF
The previous thread can still be found in the archive here
>>96644454
And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)
https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Storythread
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Anon12/08/25, 00:13No.97133791
Ho ho ho!'Tis the season. The season for writing, that is. Post your Christmas-themed stuff, or just whatever you happen to be working on.
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Anon12/08/25, 00:17No.97133821
I haven't forgotten about these, I just literally have not had a spare moment this weekend. I'll try to get to them in the next day or two.Thanks, anon, that's really helpful.
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Anon12/08/25, 00:35No.97133912
Bumpin my query from the end of last thread, hoping to discuss some more ideas and thoughts if anyone's got any.
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Anon12/08/25, 03:12No.97134859
Not Christmas themed at all, some aura farming for a Martian colonisation themed setting:The fronterize corporative (frontier worker) has a home, a fixed contract, disciplined habits, respect for authority, on whose side xhe will always be, even against xer better feelings.But the caseríe net (out-and-out frontier folk) is the typical wandering lowland miner, here today, there tomorrow; gambler, quarreller, enemy of discipline; who flees civil service or employment and takes refuge among the Nomads if xhe knifes someone. Xhe never conceives of any attachment either to the soil or to a master: however well they may pay, and however kindly they may treat xer, xhe leaves them at any moment when xhe takes it into xer head, most frequently without even bidding them adieu, or at most saying, "I am going, because I have been with you long enough".The first has the instincts of civilisation; xhe imitates the Uplanders in xer dress, and customs. The second loves tradition; xhe hates foreigners; xer luxury is xer rover, xer patched-up surface suit, xer canvas sash and xer fación. The first takes off xer surface-suits to go into a colony’s habs, the second goes there flaunting xer frontier trappings. The first is a strip mine employee, a dump-truck driver, a licensed shop-keep, a steelworker, a peon. The second hires xerself out for seasonal mining. The first has been a soldier several times, first for the people’s government, then for the free state. The second was once part of a reconnaissance squadron and deserted as soon as xhe saw xer chance.1/2
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Anon12/08/25, 08:54No.97136174
>The gang comes across a white man essentially doing native-face (pic semi related)
>This is a fantasy setting so nobody has any idea he's being offensive, they just think he's an eccentric tribesman
How do I make it clear that this is a white man badly disguised as a native american and not just me being very fucking terrible at writing a native american character?
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Anon12/08/25, 09:06No.97136197
What do you use to write stuff when you're not home and have access to a computer?
Any useful tool I may get as a xmas gift?
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Anon12/10/25, 15:14No.97150749
I've only done once a Christmas story in my campaigns.
One was set in WWI in a trench of Weird War, the night of christmas one day in the german trenches, the PCs prussian soldiers, while patroling the trench they find a ghostly spirit that seems to hunt down and brutalize other soldiers and officers, it seems like Krampus.
So yeah that's the plot IG, Krampus comes to punish the PCs and had to survive all my "points" like
>Point 1 if the PCs discover the first body it trigger point 3
>Point 3 the office in the mess will die for boiling water poured on him. Go to point 4
>Point 4 the PCs discover the body if they're scared Krampus will try to attack but at any action he will run away
Something like that, in the end my friends didn't do anything stupid and survived the christmas night and Krampus is no more.
anyway I was thinking for this year to make a Cyberpunk2020 Xmas Campaing, I had in mind
>PCs get together to party for xmas at the local pub/bar
>Plot point NPC appear and ask the PCs(They look like street samurai) to start a legit bodyguard contract with duration of 24 hours immediatly from signing and no take back.
>The contract say to stay near the guy for 24 hours straigh and i'll give back 20000€$ to divide between the guys but he doesn't give an explaination why he need to sign now (the NPC can be convinced to put 20000 more in case asked)
>The NPC is called "The crazy gambler" like the name imply he won big at the last mob Game (100000€$) he cashed out all the gangsters. Now he need protection just 24 hours so he can settle all his stuff
>The game will be oneshot or bishot and the PCs need to protect the gambler from other Street samurais, thugs, booster gangs and many more
>The game I have in mind he have to run between his wife to give money back he stole. Then go to his daughter who works as a waige and give her a lot of money.
So this is what I had in mind.
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Anon12/10/25, 15:49No.97150949
Sorry if is the wrong place. I've been trying to find a greentext for the longest time so I've given up and stopped lurking to ask directly.It was about a group in a world with no paladins, or at least nothing named paladins. Every other class existed fine. The only guys called paladins were implied to be christans crusaders either from another world or newly formed. There were some passages about them that they worshipped only one God and were interested in destrying all other religions, that they had swords of fire and when people tried to use Speak With The Dead to talk to those they killed the only thing they heard was screaming of a person being burned alive (hell, obviously).
The main reason they went around hunting other gods is because the paladins stole power from them and the main campaign was trying to stop them from doing that.To be clear, the paladins were the enemies, and the PCs were trying to stop them. The main focus of the campaign (from what I remember) was stopping them from destroying the idol of an old and forgotten god to steal it's power.
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Anon12/12/25, 01:06No.97162556
I wrote kind of an essay on my user page in the 1d6chan wiki. It tries to establish a critical perspective on the current state of pen&paper rpgs. It's not fictional writing, rather an attempt at writing in the style of ethnographies or similar treatise on cultural matters. Anyone care to read it?
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Anon12/13/25, 03:52No.97170448
What's the secret sauce to writing a humorous campaign and scenarios for me and the lads?
I'm genuinely perplexed on how to be funny and to do it without being snobbish to the players.
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Anon12/14/25, 01:39No.97175755
I know I'm a bit too old to be writing letters to Santa, but I figured I'd let my inner child have his moment. Things have been a bit rough up here in the Arcadia Block. the Central Street bombing didn't do anyone any favors and it affected a nearby hospital causing a few casualties after damaging the hospital generators. I wish I could say that the son of a bitch who did it was caught but they decided to become part of the fireworks they started.Anyways, that was a few months ago. The Central Street buildings have been rebuilt or are partway towards being finished but it's essentially pulling your sleeve down to cover the bruises on your arm. The political drama that lead up to this hasn't died down and the political commentators are tickling the algorithims just right to pump up their engagement and view counts.So what am I asking for in all this? I know the Earth is a big place and not exactly a hop, skip, and a jump away but if Rudolph can guide you across 300,000 miles in the void give Mars a fly by will ya?
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Anon12/14/25, 15:53No.97178411
But out the snowman.
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Anon12/15/25, 20:52No.97186468
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Anon12/16/25, 12:05No.97190046
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Anon12/16/25, 23:33No.97193080
>crossed the 130,000 words threshold
Three chapters to go, maybe four. Give me strength and excuse the blogposting.
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Anon12/17/25, 20:43No.97198134
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Anon12/18/25, 08:35No.97201087
I am working on a ttrpg setting that is very inspired by Greek mythology and I am looking for a good name for a dragon humanoid race. I've been using "Ophoio" as their term for now, but I want to change it to something else. I'm thinking of something to do with the legend of Cadmus and sowing the dragon's teeth, like calling them Kadameans or Draksperi. Do either of those two sound good, or do any of you have better ideas? I'm totally open to sharing more info about the race to help.
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Anon12/19/25, 15:23No.97208023
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Anon12/20/25, 07:57No.97212309
*Bust out
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Anon12/20/25, 23:34No.97215428
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Anon12/21/25, 20:53No.97219356
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Anon12/24/25, 08:52No.97234049
Happy Holidays, anons!
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Anon12/25/25, 23:53No.97242005
Merry Christmas, anons!Hope you all had a good one.
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Anon12/26/25, 03:07No.97242736
What resources, random generators, etc. do you use when writing supers settings?
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Anon12/26/25, 22:37No.97246137
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Anon12/27/25, 11:26No.97248444
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Anon12/29/25, 07:01No.97257571
trying to come up with a title with the acronym "wtf". all I know is that the F is for setting name, which is an urban fantasy setting
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Anon12/29/25, 18:16No.97259855
Ok Born Under a Bl^ck Sun author, you asked for my opinions and I'm willing to give, but not on your page. Overall, it was very Avatar the last air bender as told by a mid level Pathfinder campaign run by munchkins.Observation 1, the audience best-served by this work is probably 14 year old boys. I 'm not gonna tell you how to live your life.Let's talk about the poo poo pee pee. It grows increasingly exhausting each time you try to shock me with it. When he 'whips it out' I want to strangle you. Farstride isn't a posh master, but she should have higher standards in how she guy talks w/ da boyz. MC gets covered in his own shit. I was not shocked, I was not surprised, just ready to die before I would have to read about any other poop 'splosion.Next, please develop the voices of your characters, just a little bit more. It gets better halfway in when you have regional accents at play, you did a good job not going off the wall with it which I appreciate, but master and apprentice sound nigh exactly the same beginning to end with the only distinctiveness occurring in Chapter 13.For awareness. I felt like I was reading an outline for a better book. The names are made up, points don't matter, with characters engaged in a regional political vigilance that is unified farther than it should be, and magic conventions that sound like conceptual placeholders. You lost my investment in the world giving the characters a unified and far more clear idea of the global intertrade and political landscape than I think they would have, specifically the apprentices. Give the senior homie more of a role and show he's ready to be a Life dude frfr by making him the voice of carefully researched reason. Someone ought to be loudly wrong a bit more, so that the worldly ones stand out. Speaking of naming conventions, MC's title follows none of your established logic. why does MC appreciate it?...(cont)
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Anon12/29/25, 21:43No.97260971
A little later than I intended, but it's not New Year yet so it still counts as the holiday season. Here's my Christmas story for this year.
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Anon12/30/25, 09:09No.97263928
Apparently, I can only write two types of female characters:
>pure, goodhearted maiden of virginal goodness and peace-loving nature
>aggressive, rude tomboy, will punch your teeth in as a form of mating ritual
Next year, I shall be a better author.
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Anon12/31/25, 00:05No.97268370
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Anon12/31/25, 22:04No.97273744
Happy New Year, anons!May 2026 be the year we all finally get published! Or, you know, for some of us at least be the year we actually finish our novel.
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Anon01/01/26, 04:45No.97275738
MINDLESS WRITING EXERCISE
The Walls Are Hungry edition"Rescue Mission"..."Yeah, we're almost there- I'll call you before we turn in tonight. Love you mom, tell dad I love him."Beep.A boy with blonde peach fuzz let out a sigh as he stared at his phone. He hated lying to his parents about anything, but the alternative was so much worse.The van drove at exactly the speed limit as its occupants prepared for their self-imposed mission- some readied weapons in case there were hostiles. Others made sure medkits were stocked. Some prayed or were lost in thought.With very few exceptions, going into an unreality was always risky. Even the 'safe' ones like the Forever Mall were deadly if you didn't know where to go, how to get out, and what to avoid. With the Forever Mall, there was always a chance one of the inhabitants would take pity on some poor lost soul and direct them to an exit that would get them back to reality, at least.The rest were nowhere near as kind.Reports of new unrealities kept coming in, most of which had yet to be verified. Tales of endless factories or playgrounds haunted by impossible horrors. Picturesque suburban environs in which the houses slowly became more and more bizarrely structured the further you went in, populated by vicious things that looked human only at a distance and hungered for flesh. A library with books on every topic, mundane to arcane, patrolled by ghoulish librarians who punished sounds above whispers with lethal force- and an environment that inflamed obsessions in all who entered, causing the unprepared to study to the point of death from starvation or dehydration. A casino with chips that exacerbated gambling addiction.Or, far more often, just simple mundane environments turned into bizarre, nonsensical mazes with no apparent exit- devoid of any hostiles or deadly environments, but fatal all the same to someone who didn't know exactly what to look for.
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Anon01/01/26, 20:57No.97279730
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Anon01/02/26, 15:03No.97284387
Happy New Year, anons.
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Anon01/02/26, 16:14No.97284799
Origins of the Order of the White Lily-Penned by Mother Superior Amelia of Loshire
It was not how an angel was meant to die. Not in some back alley of Loshire.
Everett wheezed, blood flecking his parched lips. The radiance that had surrounded him for so long dimmed.
Genevieve could do nothing but stroke his hair, rocking back and forth and whispering it would be fine. As she did so many years ago when he came to her crying over some small injury or some social slight, the worst thing he had experienced thus far. That it wasn’t the end.
As if she could force reality to conform to her desperation if she continued to repeat, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”
With a shaking hand, she held the pressed white lily he had given her all those years ago in his eyeline. It was now dessicated and dry. Her tears and her son’s blood were the first moisture it had felt in decades.
He was strong. Stronger than his father, even. His mouth opened and she expected some words of defiance or even comfort.
The hurt he felt was nothing compared to the pain he was causing her. He apologized so many times before his lungs could bear no more words. She expected something. Maybe if the two believed hard enough, he would just hold on.
He wheezed, then he breathed no more.
Even as the light finally faded from his eyes, she continued the mantra. Her son was gone, but his body was the closest she could now be to him.
The others of his cell finally turned the corner. They insisted she had to go. To leave her poor, sweet son.
She fought with all the strength of a farm wife to stay with her son. It took four of them to drag her away before the guards arrived.
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Anon01/02/26, 23:44No.97287228
It's funny, now that New Year is over, I can't help but think about how 2026 was supposed to be The FutureI don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't, you know, kind of a crappier version of what we had twenty or thirty years ago but with faster internet.
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Anon01/04/26, 22:39No.97298036
Speaking of cyberpunk, I have a couple concerns with my own cyberpunk writing project. There are a few big plot ideas I had involving robbing the basement research lab of a corporation and another getting into a massive shootout with the swat team, and at least in the latter case how do you avoid being labeled a terrorist or getting on the most-wanted list? And a similar thing with heists, if you rob the cyber-bank or some corporation, is there any reason to stay a professional criminal on the street? Or how can I have all the characters remain criminals but not terrorists after doing these things?
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Anon01/05/26, 16:07No.97301899
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Anon01/06/26, 11:05No.97307440
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Anon01/06/26, 17:45No.97309375
Hi guys, I'm working on a new adventure I'm about to kick off and I'm thinking of giving the party rogue a chance to get mixed up with some fellow criminals and maybe join in on a heist plot, but I'm struggling a bit to come up with ideas of how to do that organically in a new area with no pre-existing contacts, thieves generally being rather notorious for keeping their business to themselves.
The area is a mining town and I'm thinking of potentially having a ring of thieves there plotting to rob eg the mining company payroll or the local merchant bank, but the challenge is figuring out an "in" for my player.
I'm thinking they might notice someone suspicious casing the target or something? Or maybe lifting a key off a guard?
Another idea I had was that a miner or other local could mention that an out-of-towner they didn't know had paid or offered to pay unexpectedly well for some information to do with the target, person being asked not sure why but seemed a bit fishy.
Still a bit unclear on how they could actually integrate themselves with the gang after a "tip-off" like this though
Any other suggestions for hooks I could use or how I might further develop this idea? I'm pretty new to all this.
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Anon01/06/26, 23:08No.97311755
Has anyone used AI as an editor?
Already use it for research and spellchecking. But I wonder if I could let it run over the chapters for editing purposes, recognizing wrong spellings and faulty language.
But I also don't know how I should feel about using a centralized AI, and what the company behind it might do with all the data. Meaning, I probably need a private, local AI.
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Anon01/07/26, 00:07No.97312192
This might be a more philosopical question than most, but.I could be in the position of GMastering some proper Sword and Sorcery game (Conan 2d20 and On Mighty Thews) and a DND-adjacent game.That would mean that I should not do (much) stories that could overlap thematically. What plots, especially, would you say that work in DND but not in SS?
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Anon01/07/26, 15:24No.97315819
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Anon01/09/26, 01:58No.97326681
Just because it's been on my mind recently, for obvious reasons.
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Anon01/09/26, 17:54No.97330452
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Anon01/09/26, 19:10No.97331023
What are some creative ways to make the reader think "yup this guy is definitely the killer" in a closed circle mystery? The gag is every suspect is as suspicious as possible but after 9 unbelievably suspicious little Indians I find my creative juices running dry for number 10.
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Anon01/10/26, 16:02No.97336607
So much snow these days...
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Anon01/11/26, 08:55No.97340931
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Anon01/13/26, 13:17No.97354883
You guys ever just rip off a video game, or a TV show in its entirety because your players are to normie to know the material?
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Anon01/14/26, 23:34No.97365296
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Anon01/15/26, 16:57No.97369484
Courtesy bump
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Anon01/18/26, 14:47No.97394536
Hello, gamers. This is a plot structure question, I've got the storyfagging down pretty well but I do need some help from more experienced DMs how to pace this. Descriptions of "real history" are nothing more than me giving the immediate analogue for quick and easy digestion.Custom setting based on the immediate aftermath of a vast magical conflict between the Byzantine Empire and Sassanids, the collapse of the Roman Empire was due to the arrival of magic into the world which triggered a Witcher-style "convergence of the spheres" event. Very bad time. The PCs are in Antioch where the final stages of the war were fought. They are here to collect family members or artifact items lost during the war.The PCs will be assaulted at the warehouse where these grave goods are kept by an agent of what is known as the "Tyrantine Cabal," a secret organization that believes the arrival of magic into the world is Bad, Actually and they need to destroy it. The means of doing this is simple; magic is based on mental and emotional value transmuted into magical/spiritual energy, classic Chaos stuff. Therefore, the way to destroy magic is to produce such a monstrous emotional feedback to the Source that it dies from the shock. This is planned to be done through killing a son of God with a shard of God's own body.Anyway, the agent and his cronies are at the Warehouse to steal the PCs goods, because they are infused with a strong source of "Nostalgia," which is a new form of magical resonance made by the hunger for something that is lost. All of the PCs were asked to write stories about loss and yearning for a past that can never be remade.[Continued below]
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Anon01/19/26, 12:20No.97401031
Lads, I hate the editing phase.
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Anon01/19/26, 13:03No.97401202
Hello, I have a question (or two) that I hope you will answer.
I want you to imagine you're in a library in a strange town. You're currently stuck here because your car is being worked on. The repairs are indefinite; you could be here for hours. So you take a book from a shelf and sit down to read:crownwhill.substack.com/p/pilotMy question is this: at what point did you decide to stop reading and reach for a different book? More importantly, what about that point convinced you that you didn't want to read anymore?
That's it. No need to wrack your brain for any complex reasoning. No need to comb through the text with an editor's eye. Just read it for pleasure, and when you find you don't want to read anymore, a simple 'I stopped at X because of Y' will do.
Thank you very much in advance, and don't let the picture color your expectations of the story. It's just an eye-catcher.
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Anon01/19/26, 13:46No.97401363
I want to start some sort of writing project, I think about it all day but I can't get myself to sit down and do it. As a result, the details are nebulous and I can't make up my mind about anything. I think it's because of unmedicated ADHD, do you guys have any suggestions aside from getting medicated (not an option)?
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Anon01/21/26, 02:18No.97412263
Any thoughts on the story structure where it's events, and then those same events from the opposite perspective? I watched 86 recently and it does this and I've got to thinking of a story where somebody meets an infamously lucky person and has dealings with them, and then the latter half is from the lucky person as they set everything up to swindle, outwit, or just get one over on the former.
And I guess a secondary question is how do you write somebody with incredible luck?
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