u/Dazzu1

I guess I want to talk about the courage it takes to press on despite the fact your art might not be great. How you will make mistakes and the special magic that will ensure you don’t turn that into some sort of avoidance to the idea of hard work.

I want to be incredible. I want to change the world and make it laugh. But I see that Dana Terrace walks in out of the ether after some decades of never making a mistake and I realize my goal of being the best or most beloved is gonna be impossible.

If you do it for myself instead of for other people to love me instead is that not arrogant and selfish to do it because YOU want it for YOU!? It’s more selfless to create for others otherwise you are greedy and that technically makes us evil?

Am I overthinking this? Maybe I was just brought up believing that I needed to only do things that had promised and good results that play to the odds. Someone help me out here would ya?!

Seriously I’ll admit I ask… a lot… and sometimes I wish I could outsource some of the tasks to others who are more capable than me but I want the improvements… why don’t they even seem to come

It’s my only language. I like to play around with my words but it’s my only language and people are bringing malice and cruelty to dismiss your writing by pretending you aren’t using English at all.

I don’t know where this (I’ll assume good faith) question keeps coming from but it’s enough to drive a goodly person like myself bonkers

You write and you write and you give a lot of effort and time and energy and somehow nobody likes your writing. I know it doesn’t mean they hate you but if they don’t like your writing you can’t exactly move upwards to contests or sales or wga or other titles I swear some people have. I’m just not even sure what I want or what I’m so gung-ho but we have our impatiences and want to do well so I’m wondering when does the biting urgency fade as you watch others around you get far, seem to do better and just… know naturally.

I know I ask questions like this a lot but nobody here reads my work and if they do it almost feels like people look for reasons to STOP reading and I wonder sometimes if I’m the problem and need to stop writing because the world doesn’t like what I write even if it doesn’t mean they hate/wish I’d fail.

I’m just… I don’t know honestly. I try to talk to my therapist but she’s not an artist so she can only tell me it’s a muscle like going to the gym and I go to the gym too and don’t wind up burning tons of weight so after 6 years of writing I wonder if there’s some method y’all hide.

TLDR: I feel sorta lost and like my heroes journey as a writer isn’t getting better.

It’s been since the start of COVID but some other lady in my local writer group started then but somehow has been able to manifest the skills faster

Title: The Invisible Hands

Genre: Scifi, Sex Comedy

Comps: Everything Everywhere All At Once, American Pie

Logline: When a sexually frustrated young adult is given cosmic power to rewrite reality, he must team up with the emotionally abused woman who "Hates him" and the woman of his dreams to stop the universe from being consumed by a cosmic entity.

Script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ku9l910FMwNzsUCq8IoY9LtFiFTP3XTs/view?usp=sharing

Feedback: One of my first scripts. Characters are awkward and thus speak bluntly on purpose. I feel like Im onto something with tihs one but Im not sure what to keep what to throw out and what aspects are good. If anyone even reads a few pages, please tell me Im not bad

I think the post is self evident but I need out of this mindset and I’ll ask until an answer that’s easy to swallow manifests from the heavens themselves. Okay that’s just hyperbole but I want to love being told my work is worthless like normal brilliant writers.

Theres also the fact that if its not good NOW i need to go back and rework it and that takes my precious time.

Space dogs an animated Pilot

Title: Spacedogs

Genre: Sci-fi

Pilot Episode for animation

Page Count: 49 So far

Comps: Star Fox, Starship Troopers, Captain Laserhawk

Logline: In a space age world of anthropomorphic animals, a young pilot in the shadow of his father reforms his military fleet after a betrayal gets him killed and must hunt the empire that did the deed.

Alternative logline: In a world of animal humans, a pilot in his father’s shadow must become an ace pilot to gain his acceptance and defeat the evil empire that killed him and his original elite mercenary fleet.

Link: \[Space Dogs 5th Rewrite\](https://drive.google.com/file/d/14-uSujR0j-1PAg8NwhxtsxnmlOWR8MuW/view?usp=sharing)

Issues: I feel like the start is strong, but it feels like Im trying to fill space to meet the pilot length, and I canit find what to scrunch and cut. Any help and feedback welcome, especially from any who read lots of pages deep! I have rewritten this script for many years now Im hoping it finally
starts to work

Any cures to make it good and subtextual please infuse me

We are told to read constantly. But how do you know what to find and how to analyze correctly (or else) when you read so time isn’t wasted?

I think the way everyone keeps saying read like it’s a command or an assignment has the Pavlovian effect of making it feel like an assignment instead of fun or something with a reward

While reading Vivien isn’t herself, I noticed the action lines liked to kinda repeat themselves wasting white space. And I figured maybe a light epiphany: nobody cares if the writing is strong.

The question now as I read screenplays is how do you ensure the writing is strong. This isn’t one of my strong suits because I can see the technicals but the character stuff to me almost feels too subtle.

Any advice to better grasp that so I can write well enough that I too can write lines that sort of repeat the point and still somehow one day wind up on a yearly blacklist?

Ive gotten tihs sort of stuff told to me: I have "nonstop negativity and attention seeking. This is not your emotional support group. You post constantly for sympathy and express a sense of entitlement that because you “work hard” that you “earn talent” and deserve a career. You’re abusing the community’s time."

How do I fix this asap?

I don’t know if a cure exists. I’ve asked in the past for an answer but many take me to uncomfortable places and I just want to be normal and no longer unable to be less than my peers when I grew up thinking I was smart and clever but I can barely do house work because I’m so unmotivated and just want to relax and play games all day and maybe write when the mood hits.

I’m sad and nobody wants to hear my sadness except my therapist but 50 minutes a week and my wife thinks I’m being a baby… someone help I’m gonna go nuts

I’ve always struggled with emotional intelligence. With patience. With waiting. With the idea of having to work hard to get success. I’ve been called a narcissist, complainer, unwilling to learn (it’s more the advice feels so daunting and time consuming) and I’m in therapy and have been for close to a year. But it all still feels impossible to reach my pinnacle of external and internal validation which I feel will never manifest for me. I feel like all the people I ask for easier answers from save my therapist are tired of my complaints, my envy, my implications people have an easy life. I just want to belong and grow so I can be where a 40 year old with higher intelligence and creativity should be. And remember don’t call me a narcissist because it’s apparently ableist as I learned when I used it to insult someone else!

I don’t know if I’ll need to make more threads until I get answers that make me happy about ideas of fast change

I also apologize if my tone is awkward I’m just desperate for that Rocketship to fly me over a mountain already

How do you do it? I am… well I am not patient. Never have and without some sort of divine grace which I don’t believe in I may never become patient.

But I need this fixed mindset gone. I needed it gone years ago and I will keep asking until I get a cure I can do easily and in reasonable time. I’m hoping hoping hoping someone has the fix because I’m NOT broken I just want to be happy at long last.

Maybe I am cynical but I am open to discussion but to me this is a hurdle to get out of the way so I can stop being mad at myself for not having it.

I’m adding words because I needed one hundred fifty apparently. But my needs and me are real my therapist says I matter because I exist so please help me because of said fact

So we are doing this again. You know this right?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DadFSleR1UKpkrAOeErvNipx56zI\_jwiJSlgOOe2600/edit?usp=drivesdk more and more Spell Revisions. This is the level 3 book and an interesting thing happens to dispel Magic to say the least. Sadly we don’t have too many spells join the 5 turns club but it’s still an interesting time.

Anyway feel free to prove to me that the summoned wolves of animal 3 are better than the illusion detecting dogs of animal summoning 2.

Also Icelance fun!

As always feel free to nerd out and tell me why my understanding is incorrect I welcome it!

I understand if the story screams red flag but I’ve been meeting many wonderful people and I am starting to understand things.

Through the Transient Motions
Genre: Drama/Surrealism (can’t think of a better name for it)

After his self entitled wife cheats on him with a trans woman, a cynical, hard working father faces backlash for his beratement of both in the form of friends and coworkers assuming he is transphobic and homophobic, despite his anger stemming from neither.

Issues:

I understand the worm can is like so big but the lead character is someone who’s sort of life I am equipped to tell the story of.

One of the observations of the film is that transphobia is real but sometimes people take it to insane levels that hinder the seriousness of it instead of elevate real homo and transphobic behaviors instead of “how dare you be mad at your spouse and her trans cheat!”

Comps??? I can’t think of any film that covers this sort of scenario so I need a few comps I can refer to if anyone knows. Believe me I google searched, DuckDuckGo’s when Google gave me questionable ads all a sudden.

I am treating the trans character with respect and a sing of research. She has fully transitioned going through the woes of estrogen and progesterone and the issues with men who pursue her becoming more interested in having their way when they discover her downstairs secret. The way she has cut off from all of her old culture and way of life since her parents disavowed her.

She nor her husband aren’t the leads however.

I want to be careful. I am researching and for the length of a feature I’m already 50+ pages into draft one so quitting feels like it ain’t an option.

I’m honestly not sure what help i can even ask nor even if the above are within anyone’s pay grade.

I want to be true and make people feel seen though

Hello. My wife and I started fostering a 3.5 month old puppy this week. She had just gotten stitches to get fixed. She doesn’t seem to understand potty training. We took her for a walk this morning and as a miracle she finally took a poop outside. A sizable one. We give her a treat for job well done… then we get her back into her crate and she immediately does another one. The day before she hadn’t gone poop at all.

Is this normal behavior. All she really does outside is a quick piddle and then tries to devour grass.

Any advice how to get her more in line?

I’m scared that she is paranoid and whimper and she does business inside the crate so she might keep doing so

As with the last post, Spell Revisions is a Baldurs Gate only mod. Go get it here: [Spell Revisions](https://www.gibberlings3.net/mods/spells/spell_rev/)

I went over lvl 1 spells before: https://www.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/s/5dIJ0N97jE

Now here read lvl 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d-vES2_Vlu8cAQUY84ZtlLdFqRRtO2i4aT-2sKlIkAY/edit?usp=drivesdk

Big takeaway: 5 turn durations are sometimes all you need to make a bad spell sorta good. But sometimes a great spell gets cut down a tad too hard

I started as someone self teaching screenwriting but I have a few animated screenplay ideas In my head. So I was wondering how did you, when did you and is it ever too late to have permission or be allowed to become an indie creator?