I have many things in my head but my problem is that I can't seem to find the creative spark to get something off the ground. What are some good books that help teach a person how to get creative if the goal is to be an entertaining storyteller?
>>24761216creativity is genetic.
>>24761216I believe I have some interesting novel ideas but honestly I'm not a very good writer. Maybe I was for a child when I was a child. I've spent a quarter century destroying my brain for reasons.
>>24761216Read short story anthologies in general. My personal favorite is Cyberiad by Lem, its a seemingly sily book bursting with creativity about an universe where only robots exist. Its basically like a book of fables with a scify coating.
>>24761255>I believe I have some interesting novel ideas but honestly I'm not a very good writer. Maybe I was for a child when I was a child.Same. I had a lot of cringey ideas as a teenager but maybe they could have been refined into something nice. Life went to shit and I used vidya to cope. Now I'm interested in correcting the damage I've done to my brain in hopes of becoming a career writer again.
>>24761216Im an essayist>>24761228My father is/was a musician and I also play guitar a bit in my spare time.
>>24761255>>24761279nobody is a good writer until they start writing. Whatever you learned in high school is horrible writing because 99% of english teachers never written a book in their life, and the 1% that has aren't teaching.
>>24761216the worst written book that is published is better than the unfinished masterpiece in your brain.
I wrote 2 novellas in my 20s, shopped them around a bit, and then ultimately lost interest in writing fiction.
>>24761313>>24761382Alright you're both right.Is one of the key secret sauces to making this all work to be enjoying the project to varying degrees throughout it?
>>24761216I'd like to get started too. I have a lot of ideas but AI nonsense throws a massive wrench into everything. Retards can say squeal "muh 'GPT!!!"
