Hello everyone!
Like the title says, I have a lot on my mind. If anyone can help with any of these things, that would be greatly appreciated. <3
My story feels bland. Like, really bland.
Right now, my pet project is a big crossover fanfiction called Welcome Home. The main character, Berri, goes on adventures with assorted characters from a lot of different fandoms, such as Pokémon, Doctor Who, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Steven Universe, with a bunch more that I can't list right here and now at the moment. I try my hardest to make my writing interesting and to have inspiration to do stuff, but I can't think of any cool adventures that these guys go on! I know the ending of my story, however, and I want everything to kind of line up perfectly so the ending is not only really sad, like the death of a companion in Doctor Who, but also ties up loose ends. I'm sure most writers want that, but I really want this ending to be perfect. However, until then, I need story/plotline ideas. Adventure ideas. Anything!!
I think my story is too complex.
Back to Welcome Home, but also not Welcome Home. There are things that happen after its wonderfully sad ending, which I'll try to explain without giving too much away. Berri winds up going through many different worlds, trying to help people, and restore what was once her own life, but I feel like there are too many story ideas in my head that can't be pushed together. Everything needs to be separate. I feel like there are too many timelines- nine, in fact, two of which I don't think are necessary but also reveal a darker, more serious side to Berri, and plus, they'd be really fun to write! I have an excerpt from one of those two stories (from the P.O.V. of her daughter):
"It was the most queer material object in the entirety of the universe, and I found it in a drawer. The drawer, specifically, was my mother’s, and I took a peek in there when she left. Paige, my double, would scoff at that fact that I would sit up in the dusty attic and look at this ancient thing, but she’d find something else to do. Dad told us that we had to do something today, and this is what I chose to do.
This brings me back to the beginning. The object in question was a journal. A diary. Most likely Mom’s, but I wasn’t entirely sure yet. I hadn’t seen the worn inside cover, or looked through the torn pages. And besides, Mom was not the type to keep a diary, much less a strange journal. So what was it?" (The Journal)
Despite all of this, I really want to write everything, but I'm really scared too. I don't want it to be too complex so readers get confused, but I also really want to delve deeper into some character's personalities after they've experienced the ending, y'know?
I'm really anxious about showing my writing to the world.
This could be me being the nervous, shy teen writer that has no idea whether or not people will appreciate her writing, but it's true. I'm really very afraid of showing off my writing skills. People tell me that I'm a very good writer for my age, but I'm really not. Compared to my classmates in PACE, (the advanced reading classes in my school) I have no talent, and my writing is just gross. I know a lot of people are going to hate me for it, but I also know people will enjoy it, but what if one outweighs the other? I can't seem to focus on my writing when I think like this, but sometimes I can't help it.
Like I said above...
...if anyone has any answers, please tell me! I'll happily take anything I can get at the moment! <33
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