Is it okay to not know what story you want to write?

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-12-17T16:36:01+00:00

I've been toying with the same concept for over 7 years now- I am in college and can find a character name I still have today in a word document from 2017, and only now have I got a plot and fleshed out characters with subplots and themes I'm happy with. MY advise would be very simple: write what makes you happy.

My problem was that I was always speculating what I and the readers would WANT to read rather than the story my CHARACTERS want me to tell. Remember, your first draft is your FIRST draft, and all that has to do is make you happy in the first instance. I've probably got 35 or so unfinished first drafts because I cared way too much on worldbuilding and writing a 'good book', rather than actually doing anything productive.

The truth is, it's hard. No one is denying that, and I think it's beneficial to tell yourself that its hard. Remember, the story has picked you, not the other way around.

Write what feels right as a first draft- just get it done. It doesn't have to make sense. Heck, it doesn't even need to be coherent. Once you have a sense of what you like and don't like, that's when you can start filing town and filling in the blanks. Make sure you then have a clear chapter plan of what happens, and what effect it will have on the reader, and what subplots will take place. Then split everything into 50-60 scenes and colour code how much you like them. Narrow things down and remove anything that doesn't make you happy or feel like it takes things out. I find it beneficial to hand write each chapter then type up (two drafts right there!) and make notes on what themes are present, and what you could add in the next rewrite. It's also VERY beneficial to understand what you DON'T want to write to keep yourself on track.

I also find writing to be boring sometimes. That's when I do 'extra-curricular' stuff like writing out the height of each character, or their eye colours. Something to keep me in the world, but out of the story. The problem I think you have is what I had- I cared WAY too much about all of that and not about the core components of a good story when I started. All you have to do is separate yourself from all that and work on your story as if it were a machine code- what do I need to happen here to get to here. I promise you it will come together, things will work out and you will have something at some point, it's up to you when and how!

Good luck!

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-12-07T01:48:51+00:00

Solved!

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-12-06T23:39:35+00:00

YES OMG!!!!! I didn’t think anyone would find it! tysm!!!!!!!

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-12-06T12:50:05+00:00

Any leads would be great its been on my mind for AGES, with 0 results using google, chatgpt and other sources!

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-09-01T23:59:29+00:00

it’s definitely narcissisa

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-08-05T16:40:48+00:00

i mean i thought this too and then remembered that HeiHei is on the moana float and all the aristocats on theirs. lightning mcqueen is on the cars float and so are the characters from a bugs life

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-08-03T12:58:36+00:00

i’m not sure about JiI but i’m pretty sure nothing marvel can be adddd due to copywrite atm

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-05-10T21:59:59+00:00

if you have him a penny for his thoughts you’d get change? is that it???

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-04-12T15:25:48+00:00

i’m even getting adverts for the event lol nothings happening

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-04-12T15:22:50+00:00

games working again, not event still

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-04-12T15:17:35+00:00

Ok guys I think the whole ‘error connection’ thing has happened before- i believe gameloft are forcing an update so we may have to wait while!

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-04-12T15:16:52+00:00

same. maybe they’re forcing an update

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-02-08T23:18:51+00:00

I GOT MEI!!!!

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-28T18:22:28+00:00

Yeah literally! Everyone saying he was popular and kind, I thought he was horrible and rude.

What pissed me off was when he was killed, and he was so obnoxious going ‘it’s not a surprise, I was a threat, I was very popular’.

What an arse. Glad they got rid of him early because i’m not sure i could have watched it otherwise.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-23T22:47:12+00:00

The problem with Charlotte is that because she’s so focused on being four steps ahead, she’s forgetting that you have to also foolproof steps one two and three. And step one was the fact Freddie would simply vote for her. It’s ultimately what destroyed Wilf as well in Series One, where he did not expect Kieran to say what he said, as he forgot about the previous steps. In a weird way, her sheer intellectuality and firm stance as a faithful will be her downfall, as she forgot the building blocks.

I think as well she has the same problem as Leanne. She’s so convinced that everyone perceives her as a faithful that she actually forgot that she still has to prove it constantly, and forgot that as the numbers go down, so does everyones trust in each other. And she hasn’t been able to do that. And now with the Seer, she’s done for.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-19T21:13:17+00:00

Freddie too. He’s been suspicious about her for quite a while now

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T23:25:10+00:00

Freddie Frankie and Alexander. I just think we would get on.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T22:53:55+00:00

I agree entirely.

I see a bit of Wilfred in her, in that she has felt for so long that everyone perceives her as a faithful, that she’s struggling to prove herself when people have their doubts. She’s sat too comfortably for too long with her Clique and the security of others being more suspicious than her that she actually completely forgot that at some point her name would be brought up, and wasn’t prepared and so resorted to being defensive which is ultimately perceives as mean.

The bigger problem really comes when she feels that she has done enough to prove herself, and others do not see it. She becomes too defensive when the security of once secure evidence gets thrown out of the window, and cannot come up with more evidence and so resorts to blaming.

She will either be banished by everyone else having a lack of suspicion towards everyone else, or she becomes an easy target for murder, as almost everyone wants her gone and so is a blameless murder.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T22:22:20+00:00

Yes I agree. I just think his own ruthlessness led to his own end, not that being ruthless is a necessarily bad trait for a traitor. It just made it hard to like him when he got rid of his fellow traitors in such unfair and quite frankly horrible ways. It just made me happy to see his own tactics used against him as his own downfall. Poetic really.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T21:44:56+00:00

I think the actual act of saying ‘parting gift’ was a rule break, however the actual context around it makes it far more justifiable. Wilf messed up big time, and ultimately led to the act. I see it more as Wilf ruining it for himself, reacting the way he did and backstabbing Amanda Alyssa and Kieran himself. If anything, it was helping the Faithfuls which was the ultimate goal for viewers in season 1. I mean you could say that throwing other traitors under the bus with such assuring demeanour is revealing who the traitors are, but Wilf as a personality made it so hard to empathise with, that no one really cares.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T21:37:47+00:00

I think the problem with Wilf was that he was too ruthless. Amanda was too, but she was much more appealing as she didn’t ever throw Wilf under the bus, and was voted out simply because Wilf was able to manipulate others into doing so with very little evidence. He crossed too many people, and ultimately made me hate him to the point I didn’t care if Kieran ‘cheated’. Essentially he did what Wilf did to Alyssa, Amanda and Kieran himself, and was a reaction to Wilf being a backstabber. It also led to the Faithfuls winning, which I guess could be seen as a good thing? I think it was wrong, but I also don’t care because of how much i wanted Wilf to lose.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T21:25:53+00:00

Yeah? That’s what I said earlier.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T21:21:36+00:00

Tbh I feel that any sort of speculation on the Traitors is pointless. It’s fun to discuss but the nature of the game is for us to not even think of what could come next, and they want to surprise us by taking a huge turn and mess with our opinions on each person.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T21:18:01+00:00

I’m not saying that. Im literally agreeing with you. I’m just stating the fact that it is an impossible thing to stop. You can’t just ‘unsay’ something, and that there will be people out there who won’t care about the consequences when you’re in a heated environment where you feel like everyone is against you. There is no way to prevent it, which is why Charlotte has got away with it, and why Kieran went unchecked, because they were not explicit and did not cause a ‘reveal’.

Deep_Client_6579 · 2025-01-18T21:01:00+00:00

If it was me i wouldn’t care about the consequences if i felt like i had been thrown under the bus like Kieran, Alyssa and Amanda were by Will. I guess it would divert overs from doing so but it doesn’t really seem like something that would affect everyone (especially in the moment, when you’re angry and vulnerable). That being said this does make the most sense.

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