“I don't really have the time for it but... yes, I have” … hmm, sounds like it's time to work on time management. You're never as busy as you think you are. For a while when I first started writing, I would give up anything if it seemed to be getting in the way of my writing. Thankfully I'm getting back into some of that stuff, now that I feel like I can do them and still write every day. Maybe it took a year or so of focusing exclusively on writing before I could write and still have a life?
“Choose Your Adventure never started up ;_; I'm not popular enough on here” … popular? You got a few responses, wasn't that enough?
“I was afraid to put anything on facebook because I'm still not very open about my prose with a lot of the people that I know” … I have a similar problem. I don't like to talk about my writing with my parents, partly because I have this feeling that my writing is too weird for them. Most of my close friends don't know I write, but I plan to surprise them with (aka ask them to buy a copy of
) the novel I'm working on now once I get it written. I think confidence in your writing is about how much of yourself you put into it (see the above about focusing exclusively for a while) and also telling someone who doesn't know every once in a while when the moment feels right
“I have, however, gotten another idea for a new story haha. I'm kind of excited about it but my problem is that I've been thinking more about background than actual plot, so it probably won't go anywhere for a while” … neat, background is more important anyway. When I think too much about the plot, I have a problem writing because I don't know how to make what I wanted happen. So instead, I just write and let the plot unfold itself. And having lots of background ideas makes the world colorful. I think you're on the right track, keep thinking about the background until the story is ready to come out
“Aaaand I have a lot of stories that I've started and never finished >_> but I'm still working on them, it just takes time and effort” … definitely, time and effort. I read a quote once that went something like, “writing is the only skill which becomes more difficult the better you get at it.” So if it seems hard, don't give up! And try to finish a story or two, maybe just a short one. Finishing stories takes practice, unlike writing the middle which is more about trudging along
“Choose Your Adventure never started up ;_; I'm not popular enough on here” … popular? You got a few responses, wasn't that enough?
“I was afraid to put anything on facebook because I'm still not very open about my prose with a lot of the people that I know” … I have a similar problem. I don't like to talk about my writing with my parents, partly because I have this feeling that my writing is too weird for them. Most of my close friends don't know I write, but I plan to surprise them with (aka ask them to buy a copy of
) the novel I'm working on now once I get it written. I think confidence in your writing is about how much of yourself you put into it (see the above about focusing exclusively for a while) and also telling someone who doesn't know every once in a while when the moment feels right“I have, however, gotten another idea for a new story haha. I'm kind of excited about it but my problem is that I've been thinking more about background than actual plot, so it probably won't go anywhere for a while” … neat, background is more important anyway. When I think too much about the plot, I have a problem writing because I don't know how to make what I wanted happen. So instead, I just write and let the plot unfold itself. And having lots of background ideas makes the world colorful. I think you're on the right track, keep thinking about the background until the story is ready to come out
“Aaaand I have a lot of stories that I've started and never finished >_> but I'm still working on them, it just takes time and effort” … definitely, time and effort. I read a quote once that went something like, “writing is the only skill which becomes more difficult the better you get at it.” So if it seems hard, don't give up! And try to finish a story or two, maybe just a short one. Finishing stories takes practice, unlike writing the middle which is more about trudging along