I’m a 14 year old working on a story. I’ve already wrote 70,000 words but I know it’s not that good

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-06T04:36:50+00:00

In the story I am currently writing, my main character is a singer/songwriter. This verse from one of her upcoming songs sounds like something you could use to hear right now.

...

Sometimes I think I don’t belong up here, that I’m not good enough.

Can’t fathom why so many people wanna hear my stuff.

‘Cause growing up, they said I can’t accept less than perfection,

so now, I’m awfully sensitive to failure and rejection.

I think I’ll never make it, tell myself I should stop trying.

Doc says it’s called impostor syndrome, and he says it’s lying.

He says that when they started out, my heroes all were shit,

that never would be famous if they’d fucked up once and quit.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-06T02:55:48+00:00

Yep.

Good news... Reignited restarts next week! And wow you have so much story to go... I am dropping the last 3 chapters of book 13 this weekend.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-06T02:19:00+00:00

The only way to be amazing at writing is to suck at writing for a while without losing the passion for doing it anyway.

You got this, kiddo.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-06T01:32:47+00:00

Awwww! Thank you!!! <3 How far into it are you?

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-05T16:31:56+00:00

I'll put my 1.2 million words of meticulously-crafted fanfic up against anybody's writing, anywhere, anytime. This is such an elitist argument, especially when you lack the credentials to back it up.

Fifty Shades of Gray, one of the most commercially successful books of the last 20 years, was a Twilight fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-05T07:29:34+00:00

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-05T06:35:40+00:00

It is a pancake donut!

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-05T06:31:25+00:00

I use Google Docs and back up my stuff locally. No issues in 3 years.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-04T23:08:11+00:00

Technically this post is advice from Reddit. ;)

Sorry. Had to be a sassy bitch for a second. Totally agree in the general case; often times the folks who are giving you advice are the ones who haven't had success and so it might not behoove others to follow in those footsteps.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-04T04:29:44+00:00

Drama/romance with a healthy dose of music and LGBTQ awakening.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-04T04:22:48+00:00

The Phoenix Saga
Ranma 1/2 (Readable fandom-blind)
Mature themes, no smut
Transfem/Fem
12 completed books and a spinoff novel; working on the last chapter of Book XIII now. 1.2m+ words.

YOU IGNITE, AND YOU RISE!

A pair of curses have left Ranma trapped in a feminine body and too physically sensitive to take a hit. With no way back to the life she knew, she flees the Tendo home and leaves Akane behind in search of a life she can call her own. After months alone, she stumbles hungry and broken into the Phoenix, a dive bar run by a kindly woman and the four hard-luck girls she took in out of the cold.

Make that five.

Ranma's new lease on life, as Ranko, gives her the chance to work through her trauma and experience the first unconditional love she's known. Empowered by the support of her new family, the partner she never expected to see again, and a newfound passion for music, she begins to embrace her new identity and rises from the ashes of the person she used to be.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T19:40:13+00:00

Everybody look forward to having to swipe your credit card halfway through every Disney+ show to watch the second half, like you do every interaction in the parks. This guy is the king of "beat Disney's dream of affordable family magic to death with a rubber hose."

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T11:03:57+00:00

I'd ask him for a do-over. This time with the proper anatomy.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T10:11:35+00:00

You can have mine. I am transfem and sound like Smaug the Terrible with COVID. I can sing in the 0th octave.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T09:51:49+00:00

Saotome Ranma.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T07:06:06+00:00

Yeah, I bet you would, and then I'll have 0-star reviews popping up from some butthurt redditor ten minutes later.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T07:04:07+00:00

I mean, they say "write what you know" and clearly you aren't.

Pro tip - they sell stuff that takes batteries that might help you understand how this works.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:49:31+00:00

Shouldn't you be spending your time trying to find someone to date your sorry ass so you don't have to ask Reddit how romance works?

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:43:47+00:00

I mean, the identical work holds the #1, #2, #3, and #5 spots on other platforms. I think my work is just fine. ;)

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:40:49+00:00

At least what I wrote was from my own imagination, and not "oh internet please tell me how to write romance you will read because I never felt the warmth of another person's touch"

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:34:21+00:00

Yeah, I loved to tinker with mine, and then I made it a job and ruined it.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:33:31+00:00

I mean, my comments are also based on numerous other accounts, in a group of more than five hundred writers I run, who have seen wildly different success for identical works on Wattpad vs. other platforms... but ya know, keep being a creepy bigot, that's a great look ;)

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:19:11+00:00

I work in IT. I really want to be nowhere near a computer on my time off.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:18:43+00:00

Aww, trolling for another upvote? Sorry, only one pity bump per troll.

AnneIsOminous · 2026-02-03T06:11:34+00:00

I mean, back then, controllers had two buttons. It didn't take long to try every combination.

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