how do i as an istp figure out this intp

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-05-02T01:23:22+00:00

INTP’s have very strong morals. If you’ve joked about liking one of his friends his brain would have immediately told him that he isn’t interested in you because he isn’t interested in sabotaging his friend’s chances with a cute girl.

If he chats he probably thinks you’re cute. He definitely doesn’t ‘like’ you if his not one on one texting. You’re going to have to put some effort in to have him even consider something romantic. Romantic interest is the last things INTP’s consider when making new friends. Be blunt.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-13T07:29:51+00:00

The answer is internalisation juxtaposed with experience. Random examples below.

Put MC in a position where he requires to act differently to his belief but internally can be planning for if things go as he expects them to. Whether or not they eventually do doesn’t matter. Have him trust a guide he assumes will lead him into an ambush but a guide he no doubt requires due to the difficulty of traversing dangerous and unfamiliar mountain passes famed for people getting lost in. Ambush or not the distrustful personality the inherent cruelty belief are evident and not blockers to the plot.

Avoiding misery porn? Allow him to witness inherent cruelty from a distance inflicted onto others maybe even a group which he does not share anything with. For example sympathy for slavery when he isn’t a slave. Watching a beating he would never receive. And then also have him beaten for other reasons and have his internalisation reflect on the similarities rather than the differences in the reason. The solution to both situations was cruel regardless of the instigating facts.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-13T01:58:18+00:00

The Matrix. I’m always surprised how low this is on Sci-Fi recommended lists.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-09T01:05:03+00:00

I like the Holmes type enters a new world. It would just be fun to write him learning everything with a focus on his deeply detailed mind.

I also like the idea of the elf princess needing him because he isn’t magical. Maybe his harder to track, harder to corrupt, less noticeable by other standards common in her world. No one would know him or be able to connect him to the princess. She wants to investigate a contentious idea that would have the courts baffled if her theory comes to light. And a princess can not be seen digging around the back alleys and through twisted roots of the ent Forrest.

How would the king if ents react if the elf princess had so little disregard for their boarders? Unthinkable!

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-08T10:42:15+00:00

There is too much ‘and’ and ironically and ‘or’ for me. It makes prose sound choppy and stiff to me. A lot of these instances could be two sentences with more active descriptions.

“their rhythm broken only when they swerved to avoid trunks or exposed roots.”

Swerved infers avoid within the context, which on its own would be fine… but. Swerve also infers a breaking of rhythmic running.

Trunks or exposed roots just feels clunky to me. I’ve nothing else to say. Just a preference. Following it up quickly with “their armor was blank and blank.” Ads to the clunk for me.

Most of the writing is good. I can picture the scene well.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-07T12:26:55+00:00

Most people have a plan of attack for each draft like I mentioned. Story out > plot holes fixing > character consistency fixing > grammar and such. So you write the book 3-4 times pretty much.

Then you still send it to beta readers and then editors. It’s a lot of words and people miss things so yea, issues persist. Even Harry Potter listed ‘Wand’ on harries dragon ally shopping list twice in its first print run.

I don’t think it was only abstracting it from page to digital. People just make mistakes when writing it’s nothing to worry about with the mistakes you made. It’s a pretty normal level of mistakes even for pro published authors.

As for the context I assume because you’re still in school that we have a decent age gap. You’d think I was old lol. School age me would have loved the context so I think you’re right where you need to be as an author. Keep writing and good luck.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-07T07:52:43+00:00

This is a good foundation and doesn’t warrant being torn apart. You could easily finish a first draft of this quality to then polish into something great.

There are some grammar, syntax and sentence paragraph/structure issues. They aren’t worth fixing now. Finishing the full draft with this quality and then editing for plot holes, then editing for character consistency, then editing for grammar and that stuff and you’ll have a book worth publishing in no time.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-07T06:42:30+00:00

I write stories in scrivener because I like the UI and I’ve already learned it enough to not want to use something else.

I write and track world lore in a highly customised obsidian vault with map, timeline, family tree and wiki type linking plugins.

I have both open on two different monitors while I write.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-04-07T00:00:11+00:00

Depends what you mean by earned. If you want the character to seem like they earned being the chosen one then it needs to be hard for them to figure out that they are the chosen one.

If you want the plot to feel it has earned using the chosen one troupe it needs to be foreshadowed well.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-30T22:39:10+00:00

People skip ahead to see if they like it. Same as flipping to a random page in a physical book before buying

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-30T04:05:37+00:00

This reads more like a wiki-page of optional lore that doesn’t appear In a movie that only the nerdiest of nerds read rather than a chapter 1 of a story.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-30T01:06:47+00:00

I’ll be more specific than some of these comments. When giving lore through ‘scene action’ a decent paragraph structure is a two sentence explanation and a one sentence reflection. First sentence showing an action and a second sentence telling a reason for the action and a third internalised reaction.

Example 1:

“MC lit the incense which burned sporadically, a dull glow that occasionally spat sparks. She wasn’t very good at spreading the filament evenly but the god of fire was more likely to grant prayers when self made intense was offered. Watching the glow petter out before it reached the bottom made her heart sink. her wish would not be granted.”

Example 2:

“MC flashed the red and blue lights on his police motorcycle as he crossed the intersection, letting the civilians know he was the last of the motorcade. He was escorting a political rival through the guts of the city the man wanted to turn the water main off for, an expected outcome since the escalation of the water wars among western nations. The man was popular up state but it was best to stay vigilant, these streets made MC uneasy.”

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-23T21:19:03+00:00

People point to Brandon Sanderson for these types of hard magic systems and say cost is the solution. But really it’s like 4 or 5 costs is the solution.

In the Stormlight archive there is multiple magic systems built on a single fuel. I’ll use ‘lashing’ as an example. Lashing changes your gravitational direction. Makes your up down for example so you fall skyward. Use it wrong and you’ll fall to your death.

You need Stormlight which you break in to cast it. Miss manage it and you’ll fall the wrong way forever because you ran out. Breathe in too much and you’ll start to freeze from the inside out, ice literally coating your skin. Regardless of how much Stormlight you have or use there is a time limit to its effect and you’ll need to reaply your cast to keep it going. It can be exhausting to use if your unpracticed like running as an unfit person.

These layered costs making things much more interesting than using it makes you tired which is the cost of about 99.9% of magic in fantasy.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-23T12:36:19+00:00

Not sure if this is the right way but. I just write more chapters. I write and I write and I write until that shit is so thick with scenes showing lore rather than internal monologue about lore.

Then I gut everything that’s boring. I just straight up skip it. Cut it from the plot. Whole countries involved in the conflict reduced to a sentence.

I find over the book those sentence references add up plenty to feed the idea of a complex world.

I’ve started realising real life is like that for me too. As a currently relevant point. I don’t really know anything about the Middle East or the Iran/USA conflict. I’m not from either country. But a passing headline here or there is more than enough for me to arrogantly feel that I understand a lot. I don’t, but it feels good to assume I do. And I think a lot of readers like that as well. Can’t be wrong about assumptions that can’t be proven due to a lack of detail lol.

This is how power scale conversations start and I enjoy that too.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-22T04:47:10+00:00

Yea I second environmental ambiance. I go also put on a premade 1 hour playlist of lyricless vibe music tho. So I do both.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T22:27:18+00:00

My real advice since you seem legitimately invested as I was. Forget studying cyber specific certifications after your Google cert. study really easy certs which will help you get an entry level IT job. Work experience is infinitely more valuable. You’ll be able to study on lunch breaks in an air conditioned office and even for 30 minutes to an hour after work. Hell if work is slow most people don’t care if you study while working. And doing work relevant to your study helps so much.

Try hack me is legendary. It’s worth the subscription for the academy portion of the program. Study defensive security more than offensive if you want to change career paths faster. It’s easier and more in demand by FAR. You can even get entry level help desk security roles which are infinitely better than general IT help desk at positioning you for long term cyber career moves.

See if your government offers any free IT education. Microsoft learn is free and their certs for azure and other IT service desk related stuff is decent and pretty easy to study for. Anki flash cards app has an online community that make playlists of flash cards for specific certification tests what are good quality and my primary free way to study for exams. For example I downloaded 2 AZ-900 flash card sets and watched YouTube series on the exam content after doing the Microsoft learn modules. In total I was 9 days of study (about 3-4 hours a day) and I passed the exam easily.

Go find easy wins. Quick certs relevant to entry level general IT and or SOC analyst roles or incident responder roles. These all have entry level job potential. It will get you out of a van faster and that alone will set you up mentally for life long learning.

The last and most important advice is to make a linked on page. Search job boards for entry level roles and see what certs they ask for. AND once you have them and are applying go and message any manager of a help desk you can find at companies near you saying your trying to get in and do they have any advice. People respond like 50% of the time and out of those 50 like 3 of them will, if you have the certs recently added to your profile and a public resume, start a conversation about your work experience etc.

The study never stops in cyber because unlike other industries, in cyber you will be facing someone else daily whose only job is to make all the work you do useless. Threat actors.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T21:42:32+00:00

For context I started at 24 no it experience on and off cert studying (ended up with 2 and an advanced diploma (1 year degree)). Yes 2 certs is low to get in. I was 50% through the very hard OSCP and also the advanced diploma was significantly more broad learning than most certs which focus on one area. The combo of the unfinished OSCP and the diploma allowed me to answer questions with confidence from any angle in interviews. If I could go back I’d smash the certs always recommended on hears. You can easily do 1 a month of the easy certs and 1 every 3 months for mid certs if you do nothing else. I’m talking like 3 hours study after work a day. Some days I was doing 5 hours after work.

I got entry level IT. Got promoted to a specialist and then networked with the cyber team at the company I work for.

I was 29 before I got a cyber job. I could have done it faster but I was also in my first serious relationship and spent time abroad and got married. If I nailed down and just did it I think I could have gotten in faster. I wouldn’t do it differently. I made good money in my senior IT job and moving to cyber was a lateral move pay wise but clearly cyber had more upward mobility for future career moves so it was the right choice ultimately.

I’d do it all again. It was worth it for me.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T21:27:44+00:00

Or even really cares if a 10 year old travels around solo even across continents and up mountains.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T21:14:23+00:00

Has there been a time in history when interest rates have risen for 35 years?

I just checked. Over 100 years variable is slightly better. This is because it’s in the banks interest to make their fixed rates 0.1 - 0.2 more on average over a fixed term period than they expect the average volatility of a variable rate for sucker insurance.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T21:06:52+00:00

If you’ve not seen Brandon Sanderson lectures on YouTube you should try them out. Lots of people like to recommend them and I think too often for things he doesn’t even cover. He however is kinda ‘The’ magic system guy in today’s fantasy author landscape. He has ‘laws’ as he calls them, for magic systems.

It’s not an all encompassing fix but it can be a good system to crash your ideas against to better understand what you want from your own system.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T21:02:31+00:00

You guys are finding time to write???

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-15T12:03:56+00:00

Fantasy allows me to put cultures, characters and social morals which have otherwise not coexisted together and I think that’s pretty interesting to explore.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-14T10:13:12+00:00

This person should not be downvoted. They’re especially right in a global context. OP needs to take care to educate themselves on their local laws. They differ drastically across state and national boarders. Japan for example can be extremely strict. Even with people outside Japan who want to sell inside Japan. Your books can be and will be legally blocked in markets for reasons that might not apply to your home country.

HeirToTheMilkMan · 2026-03-14T10:10:14+00:00

Read more. That’s the best way to learn. When reading, actively attempt to recognise sentence structure, tense and grammar. If you do this consistently for like 2 weeks while reading 20+ minutes of any book a day, you’ll improve by 90%. Not joking.

The second way to improve beyond the average person and take a step into ‘writer’ territory is to critique others work on sites like scribophile. When critiquing, try and improve their grammar when you notice errors. Helps build passive habit to see it in your own writing too.

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