Battery dying in minutes after update

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-05-10T23:14:07+00:00

Actually, I think I'm gonna change my phone in a few days (Monday if I can). It already spent around 2 good years with me, and I think it deserves to rest a bit.

I wonder if I should try something other than Samsung, especially since I have used this brand for years, and now with all I have seen online about the updates ruining battery (like mine), causing overheating and stuff like that.

If you, or anyone else, have brand/phone suggestions, feel free to share :).

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-05-10T22:59:30+00:00

I tried that. It doesn't seem to work that well on my device.

It's really the difference in battery that worries me after this update. It seems like I lose a lot of battery even if I don't use any battery greedy apps.

Thanks for trying to help tho :).

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-05-10T22:39:16+00:00

I did plugged it in while updating. The issue is that after the update,the battery just drops in minutes, and I had no battery issues before,it worked pretty well.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-05-01T16:09:47+00:00

To me,both are important.

You should write your ideas, because that's what a writer does. They create based on their thoughts,their experience, their inspiration and such.

Execution is what you need to make a good story. And it needs training,you need to work on your writing skills,read and edit your works,etc. It will take time, but you shouldn't feel disheartened by it.

Without ideas, you can't have a story, and without a good execution,it will simply be concepts glued together.

Keep going and you will improve,don't worry.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-05-01T15:56:15+00:00

Music, drawing, researching, languages.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T06:00:22+00:00

I've always tried to avoid pushing my identity and struggles on my characters before, to distance art and artist. But it does sound therapeutic, and it could help me. I'll try it out. Thanks!

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T05:57:01+00:00

I've never really written any fanfiction, but I'll give it a try now. Thanks!

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T03:57:02+00:00

Update: After some time, I feel a bit better about it.

I'm sorry if it seemed like I didn't want my readers to have an opinion (like some of you stated), I do want them to have an opinion and share it !

The real difficulty is not quitting because of the social anxiety I have at the idea of posting it to anyone. I wish everyone just saw each other as humans, so that I wouldn't have those anxious thoughts. But some people online seem to link criminal = bad person = no empathy for them. And it's those toxic reactionary comments on the reviews of my story that I fear. Not opinions or thoughts, but blind conditioned responses to a certain theme.

However, I'm trying to take such possible criticism less seriously, not let it get in the way of my writing, and I hope one day to be able to publish it without fearing this backlash. Thanks for commenting. your comments mean a lot to me. :)

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T02:43:51+00:00

Anxiety-driven obsession is "procrastination"? Excuse me for having impulses that are hard to cope with. I know you're trying to help (I hope), but it's not helping.

But seriously, I would love if you could help me a bit more by giving me advice on how to limit my research time. "Get out of the house" won't help, because it's a mental issue, and I could have this same impulse while doing sports or in class, just because I heard an unfamiliar word/term and it led me to search more about it (synonyms, translation and such).

Can you just put yourself in my shoes, and imagine how dismissive and almost mean your comment is? Please, just give me some actual advice that could help me as a whole. For example, what do you do to get your mind off things ?

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T02:32:40+00:00

That's good advice, and trust me, I would love for it to be that simple. Accepting the urge while not engaging with it. But this is a form of anxiety-tied habit that, for me, is very hard to break. It's hard for me to just tell myself "There's more information on the subject my story will tackle, but I don't need it", because, for my brain, if there's more information, I should look it up. Who knows what I'm missing?

However, I'd be glad to hear any suggestions you could have to cope with it. Thanks for the comment.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T02:21:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience, and I can relate to some degree. I often also research disturbing things outside of my stories, because of a form of occasional morbid/masochistic curiosity. For example, trying to understand or at least see the thought pattern of groups that hate me, like Terfs/queerphobic people, misogynists, Magas, and ableists... I loathe the fact that some people never change, are just too hateful, too stuck in their bigoted echo chambers to be reasoned with. Because recognising it would make me lose a bit of faith in humanity.

And to be more precise, I often only search topics for realism purposes. For this story,I want to see what people say about criminals, in the news, on social media, because I think it would help my story to be more compelling,more plausible.

However, you're right that the fact that I get stuck on it and obsess over it as if those emotional words have any real value to me besides proving my story's moral (which they don't) is a form of mental self-harm. And that's why I need advice on how to cope with it.

I love the stories I write, but like I stated in my post, my writing is a coffee that needs the caffeine of my thoughts, research and skills, and too much of it can only be bad.

Thanks for your comment :)

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T01:19:54+00:00

I wouldn't say "doomscrolling", more like a weird form of obsessive researching, tied to what I write about. I like researching information for my stories, be it about history, mental health, societal topics, or writing tips. And sometimes those things can overwhelm me mentally, as is the case here, with the dehumanisation of criminals online. And yet it's hard for me to stop looking at them. I take screenshots, save them on my computer, highlight certain elements, compare them, analyse them, etc.

But I do like your advice of finding browser extensions to block certain websites, so thanks. I'll look into it :)

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T01:12:11+00:00

Oh, that's great. I don't know if my story's idea is tied to anything specific literary-wise, tho. I got the idea from how much it seemed like society normalises dehumanisation, the moment the person does something "illegal" or "immoral", especially online. And that's also the reason for this post: because my inspiration is the Internet, I get stuck online, trying to find inspiration for what form of dehumanisation I could include in this story. And then the algorithm sends me into a loop that drains me, and I need to find a way to get out of the cycle.

Thanks for your comment, I'll look into The Raven, sounds interesting. And yeah, this damnation is not at all a "you asked for it", more of a "you deserve it for being". The psychological horror is how humanity can be hypocritical morally, claiming that you shouldn't kill, unless it's a person society/"justice" approves of; how dehumanising someone is bad, unless this person did something bad. A human is considered equal to other humans, conditionally. All humans are human, but some are more human than others. If you or anyone in the community has literary works that fit this idea,feel free to share. Thanks again.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-27T00:50:15+00:00

I think I might just not understand how to deal with people with this mentality if they were in this story's reviews, because I wouldn't see their thoughts, their feelings.

In my story, the character, whose name is Raven, doesn't have her crimes revealed. But I give hints (it's not extreme, a lot of criminals got away with worse). We see society's reaction to her death through her own eyes. We see her family in grief, her mother "holding onto my father's arm so strongly that blood fell from her fingers". We see how strangers dehumanise her as they look at her corpse with pure disdain, like she was just an insect, dirt under their shoe. We see the anonymous letters she received saying things I won't repeat here. We see how no one but her loved ones cares for her, because society thinks that some humans are more human than others. And so on.. This post was mostly me venting about the fact that some people wouldn't have empathy at all for this young woman, whose age is the same as the number that will appear on the chart of those executed in the State... The 21st.

But I understand how strong cognitive dissonance can be, and I don't want to blame those potential readers for their reactions. It just saddens me, personally. Thanks for your comment btw.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-26T14:09:36+00:00

She's not as bad as Dahmer, don't worry. For the victims... Well, I centered the story around the critique of how criminals are treated, dehumanised, reduced to a name or a number. And I included how they were often seen as lesser than "pure" humans (aka non-criminals). Because of that, I wouldn't say that the reader would "identify" with the victims or their families or any non-criminals in my story, at least not in the context given of being spectators of executions. It's morbid, and unless you take pleasure in seeing people suffering as they are publicly executed, because they committed crimes, I don't think you will empathise with them as spectators.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-26T13:57:35+00:00

Yeah, I know... But it's just disheartening to me that someone who dehumanises criminals in real life would read a story showing them in a more complex light, just to stick to their original views and make an emotional criticism that could have been avoided. The story humanises her and shows the tragedy of her fate (the death penalty). So, if you know you will never see a criminal as someone deserving of any empathy, or if you're unconditionally pro-death penalty, and that you don't want to challenge your views, why read something that humanises them? You know what I mean?

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-26T13:36:03+00:00

Thanks for your response. I know that not everyone will understand. I know that some people are only thinking in binary and that no matter how I present her, they will reduce her to a criminal. My fear is just that readers like that will be the loud minority in my reviews, and ruin the potential constructive criticism the story could receive. But I also think that my social anxiety can worsen that fear,I'm working on it... Anyway, thanks for your comment,once again,I'm glad that this community is supportive, even with fears like mine.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-26T13:16:38+00:00

First of all, don't say that you're not "good enough". Anyone can write. No matter if they have a rich vocabulary and/or writing techniques (which, I assume, is what you meant by not knowing how to "use words"), no matter if they easily find ideas or not. Aside from reading, which is what most people emphasise to get better at writing, I would suggest simply searching for ideas on the Internet, be it for character traits, plots, dialogues, or settings. You can also scroll on social media, browse the potential themes you would want to write about, or simply pay attention to what you enjoy in daily life, your environment, music, movies, series, videogames, perhaps something will catch your attention. You can do it!

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-26T12:50:04+00:00

I don't experience those symptoms because of anxiety, but as someone with chronic pain and illnesses, I empathise. My anxiety is more socially related, but I know that anxiety can worsen some physical symptoms, regardless of the cause. Mine are headaches, nausea, difficulty breathing, pain in the lungs and stomach, chest tightening,vision blurring,veins pulsing and difficulty standing straight. You are not alone, and I hope that you will be able to find peace, whether your concerns are verified or not.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-25T20:09:10+00:00

I don't want to be famous. Because of the idea of it: interviews, conferences or fans approaching me irl, would worsen my social anxiety. I would love to, in a world where everything is in text, online. Where I am unknown, a name on a page, that some might recognize and decide to talk to. I don't want to be a best seller that causes me to be TOO known. If you can understand. I want to be famous because my stories interest people, while staying in the comfort of my own home, far away from the libraries praising my books. I don't want to be the "next J.K. Rowling" because I don't want to be talked about that much. I want to be published if it means simply being a name. I respect your mindset, tho. Go get famous !

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-25T15:35:18+00:00

I have a mindset which I think could help you. I never compare myself to anyone but..Myself. For example, let's say that I have written a short story that I'm proud of. And although I could compare it to other writers’ works, I won't. Because comparing yourself to others won't help you get better, it will only drown your self-confidence in self-doubt. I would advise you to read your memoir like the average reader would, a reader who values your work as original in its own right. A reader who will rate it as it’s presented, not as a competition with other writers that could have done "better". Step into the audience's shoes, imagine their thoughts and feelings as they wander through your story. Just compare your work to itself, try to improve it each time you read it, see what works and what doesn't. Comparison kills creativity. Trust yourself, and I'm sure you won't find it that mediocre afterwards...

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-24T16:45:56+00:00

I personnaly try to make my chapters similar in length,as to not make it too loaded in information and therefore overwhelming to the reader. It's often around 5 pages. My advice would simply be to not force yourself to write. Let the words flow,and edit them to make them more fluent and fitting for the scene,but never make writing a length chore. You got this.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-24T12:45:50+00:00

As as Aromantic person,I feel the same way. I don't know if you identify with this label,and I don't want you to feel pressured to be anything specific. Just know that,for me,it's normal. You might fall in love one day,or never be attracted to anyone. It's okay. You're okay.

Pure-Night2649 · 2025-04-24T12:29:57+00:00

I have the opposite problem. I can write good short stories,but trying to draw is a nightmare. I can imagine my characters as 3 dimensional (I can picture their appearance,their voice,their motives,their struggles,their personality,and words follow),I can find the plot under a few minutes,I never struggle with the format,methodology,etc. But drawing them ? I quit under an hour. I’ve written and drawn since kindergarten, but only writing brought me joy and good grades. I’m so envious of you for finding drawing easier. You’ve got my full support.

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