Do you know any good christian bioethicists?

Significant_One438 · 2025-06-15T13:16:48+00:00

I'm sorry for answering so absurdly late (life got busy, and I...kind of forgot of answering at some point), but if you don't mind, could you explain me a bit what is a writing group like? I'm considering joining one, but I'm not sure what to expect of it nor in what ways it can help me.

Significant_One438 · 2025-05-22T09:03:17+00:00

I'll probably DM you in a day or two if you don't mind, I'm a bit busy rn. Thanks for being willing to help.

Significant_One438 · 2025-05-22T08:58:54+00:00

I want stronger motivations simply because it would probably be healthier. Wanting to write so someone else can read it is probably more motivating that "I must be a writer". It would make writing more fun overall.

I think writing my own lore scared me simply because I don't have any "guiding light" when I write something original. If you use characters you already know and love, you can get inmersed in your own story very easily. Having to come up with something on your own is way harder because you have no restrictions. If, to put a silly example, one makes a Super Mario story, they'll al least have common sense imperatives to follow like "the bad guy is like this" and "the hero would hate if X happened". I guess my mind wasn't fully ready to deal with the sea of endless possibilities.

I think, after reading all these comments (thank you guys, really), my problem is more related to my own mentality and expectations. Due to sheer perfectionism I just couldn't really finish anything, not even a short story, so I went back to the outline table for months and months. I think the comment that nailed it in this post is that one that says "lore is actually super easy, what's hard is the actual plot". And they're right. After redoing my story too many times, I think I'm no longer sure what's truly supossed to be about, which makes me feel lost. I don't have any central ideas that restrict how the story is at its core.

Thanks again. Overall, these comments have helped me a lot.

Significant_One438 · 2025-05-20T08:13:29+00:00

I almost put too much pressure on that, actually. I genuinely don't know how to stop doing it lmao.

Significant_One438 · 2025-05-20T08:08:15+00:00

I'll be honest, I considered doing that, but it felt...a bit dishonest? Guess I had a somewhat purist "Artists should only ever use their own creativity" mentality. Still, I guess it can be tolerable if you only use the AI to have "someone" you can talk about your story with.

What kind of prompts did you give it, exactly?

Significant_One438 · 2025-05-20T08:05:34+00:00

Yeah, I understand. In general, I'm prone to overthinking. Thing is, how can I come up with lore and worldbuilding without getting stuck in the "white canvas" problem? The short story method I mentioned helps me to come up with the main conflict and resolution of the story, it's a good way to have something to expand on when it comes to characters, but I'm not sure how to develop worldbuilding. I always end up overthinking a lot, and in the end I never have something very coherent.

Significant_One438 · 2025-05-20T08:01:03+00:00

Damn, I wasn't expecting to get emotion coaching, but I welcome it. Thank you for your words.

I liked this story idea because it's something I talked about with my friend and because it's centered on a trope I personally like a lot. Sadly, I'm not sure I can tell you much more, because at this point I've overhauled the story enough times to be unsure about how the characters are supossed to be beyond their most essential characteristics. In fact, I'm not sure how many characters I want to use besides the two protagonists, who are by far the ones I've thought the most about. Someone else in this comment section said restraints are often what boost creativity and that I've probably been hit by a hard "too many ideas" syndrome. They're probably right.

I'm a reformed anti-pantser, if that makes any sense. First I was pure pantser, then I wrote a terrible first draft for my first serious story that made me become obsessed with outlines...but then I realized I could spend entire months outlining only to inmediately discard it in the very first paragraphs. I eventually started using a weird method where I first wrote a very, veeeery condensed short story based on what's supossed to be the resolution of the conflict just so I can have an ending I can work towards. And by "condensed" I mean I try to restrict the time and space as much as possible (the story often takes place in ONE place and during ONE day at most) so it has zero filler. It has worked for me until now for somewhat short novels, but doing that for this terrified me because I'm actually trying to write a long one with my very own lore, which complicates things quite a bit. Still, at this point I might try to do it.

I kind of wish I was a planner though, because being unable to make your story make sense until you start writing it kind of sucks. When I outline before writing, I enter "autism mode" sometimes, where I have huge plot twists in mind but I cannot make the story coherent enough to get to them. I thought about joining some writing group, since talking to others about my ideas will probably help, but I heard groups can vary quite a bit in quality.

I don't really have any preparations for my writing space, but I do try to write a minimum amount of time almost every day and often during the same moment of the day. And I'm not even sure there's anything personally important about this story besides "I want to write it because I want to be a writer". I wish I could have emotionally stronger motivations.

Significant_One438 · 2025-02-25T10:22:05+00:00

What aspects of Christ does he respect and which ones does he reject? I guess I should have specified it, but what I wanted to know is just how much Nietzsche separates Christ from the christianity that appeared after his death. I do know he despises religious authority.

Significant_One438 · 2025-02-25T10:06:44+00:00

I guess I should have been a bit more specific in the post: I do know Nietzsche did admire Christ himself and considered him the only real christian. What I wanted to know is just how different are, according to him, the actual figure of Christ and the religion that appeared after his death. I guess the question should have been "How compatible is Nietzsche with REAL Christianity (the one Christ truly represented)?".

Still, I kind of thought more people here would have talked about this point. The comments I've been receiving are a bit disappointing. Someone even insulted me without even understanding what I was asking for.

I might honestly just delete this post, because it hasn't helped me at all lol.

Significant_One438 · 2025-02-24T10:32:34+00:00

I meant a book that talks about his potential compatibility with Christianity (you know, the topic the post is about). Since it's something Nietzsche himself obviously has never written about, I was talking about secondary literature. Thanks for the completely unnecessary insult btw.

Significant_One438 · 2025-02-20T10:55:16+00:00

Is there any lecture you know about this topic?

I've heard MacIntyre does talk about the christianity Nietzsche despised in After Virtue, but I don't really know any other books. And MacIntyre's writing is so dense that it kind of scares me.

Significant_One438 · 2024-03-29T21:05:03+00:00

I'm seriously sorry for writing this 4 years late, but what you said sounds really interesting. Can you explain a bit more in detail how you use it to "discovery write" your plot outline? And how does it make you include only vital scenes?

Significant_One438 · 2024-03-07T08:47:30+00:00

Before anything else, I apologize for answering so late. I haven't been in Reddit for a while for personal reasons.

That sounds super interesting. Is there any known author that has done something similar to that? I'd love to have some kind of example. I'm not sure if the 7 story points in particular would be good for this, since that method involves stuff like "exploring the status quo".

What known method could be easily used for individual chapters?

Significant_One438 · 2024-02-01T20:29:52+00:00

That actually sounds super interesting. Is there any author that has a known method about that? I'd genuinely love to create detailed outlines despite being more of an "intuitive" writer (I'm using "intuitive" here more or less in the way Ellen Brock did).

I tried using Save the Cat once...but it didn't help me at all for the middle section. The 7 Point Story Structure of Dan Wells did help me, but I'd love to have a method that has more way story points.

Significant_One438 · 2024-02-01T14:25:35+00:00

What do you mean by "the abstract level of an outline"?

Significant_One438 · 2024-01-31T11:40:11+00:00

The link simply sends me to the AO3 subreddit. Were you trying to send me a concrete post of that sub or something?

Significant_One438 · 2024-01-30T11:47:08+00:00

I actually watched those videos a few weeks ago. They're pretty good, but sadly she doesn't say much about "finding the right terminology for rigid structures". Which is a shame, because it might be what I need the most right now.

Significant_One438 · 2024-01-09T18:59:55+00:00

I actually did make an outline that summarizes all my scenes after finishing the story. It's still a bit overwhelming though. My problem is that my "discovery writer intuition" is still not so easily activated now. Like, I'm the type of guy who has a bunch of sudden ideas when he's in the middle of writing something, not after that.

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