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Yes. All ideas are okay. Unfortunately, ideas don't mean s**t until they've been put to use. So write the story, and then let your peers read it. Take their feedback and apply it.




Now stop asking the WF about every single thought that pops into your head.

I guess this is well deserved, but when you think about it, WF is here to discuss and help everyone no matter how little and annoying the problem is..

people just need to share their ideas with others, or just to show or ask/discuss the idea... they look for either positive or negative feedback.. just so they can move forward... or backwards to improve.

if you dont get it theres no point in me explaining it....again

No, come on. Explain it for the first time. Explain how the WF's "being here"for discussion and "help" relates to what I've said. How does that statement affect my claim that there's no real help to be had until you've done some actual writing? Are we here to help with writing, or are we here to bandy about ideas that haven't been written and can't be placed into context without being written? How can we "help" someone "move forward" or "improve" when they haven't even started?

Please do explain. I imagine I'd love to hear it. Before writing is involved, it ain't writing.




Axioma: Bullshit, for the following reasons:

1. As an idea does not equate to its material manifestation in the form of writing, as your statement implies, and we are concerned with writing as opposed to some non-writing, your statement cannot be taken as valid for the present circumstances.

2. Your statement implies that all "inconsistent" ideas are bad in all situations; this is fundamentally not true.

3. The implication of your statement suggests that ideas and writing must hold to some statute of "consistency"; this is not the case, however, and is merely a value judgment on your part.

4. "Consistency" and, of actual importance, effectiveness of writing cannot be judged until it's been transformed into actual writing; it simply does not follow that what is "inconsistent" in the abstract will be so in the concrete.





I maintain: Any idea is okay. But no idea is writing.

I IZ RETRDZ ONO gonk

I'm trying not to cry out, "Can't we all just get along?" because I'm a bit past that age.

Still, I agree with V in that there should be some actual writing involved, not just, "Hey, I had this awesome idea yesterday evening while in the loo. What do you think?" Every other post is about this: Requests for users to say aye or nay to an idea based on a sentence or two. Most are cliches, involve stereotypes, or are just plain stupid. But, hey, who knows? Maybe the user requesting help is the next Ernest Hemingway or Virginia Woolf. Maybe they're so good any plot idea can sound original coming from them.

The point is, how can we know this for sure when we haven't read anything from that person? Huh? So go write down your ideas already and stop asking if they're good. You can ask me to read yout story and tell you what I think, but that's about something completely different.

Furthermore, I think brainstorming should be done in the privacy of a private chat or through PM with a select number of people, say the ones who are actively supporting your writing. Or maybe on a forum designed especially for this purpose.

-AjaCharlotte

V for Venereal Disease

I bet The Count of Monte Cristo sounded like a real ******** stupid project when Dumas first posted it on the Internet.

Mrs Dalloway is about a broad hosting a party. And then this guy kills himself.

V for Venereal Disease

I mean, come on. I'd almost bet money that a mod kills this thread and maybe even bans me by the time I get up in the morning, but I am so very serious it almost hurts.

I say we start up a petition to reinstate you already. *grin*

-AjaCharlotte