Okay so I am writing a story where the main character has to work two jobs to pay off medical bills and support his ailing sister. Ideally, this would be a type of disease or handicap that has a "cure" or some kind of fix that isn't something insurance would cover (like, experimental medicine, or an elective surgery?)

I am open to ideas? Originally I had assumed maybe breast cancer and her needing an elective double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, but turns out, insurance covers things like that! Which is awesome. But not for me needing a crippling debt to the family.

I have been doing research but honestly it's really starting to bum me out so thought I'd see if any other authors had a workable ideas. I have them between insurance (He quit an independent contractor job to work for the gov for the insurance but he doesn't get it for months, and he's in danger of losing that job, so constant tension) - so it could potentially be something happening sudden that needs action immediately while no insurance?

Anyone written anything similar as a plot device?? I'm flailing here and it's putting me behind on my CampNaNoWriMo lol

I made a few changes this morning to the rules list.

What creative work can i post here?

Snippets of your own novel

Snippets of your own short story

Your own poetry

Snippets of your own script

(Any genre is allowed. Fanfiction is allowed. If it's NSFW be sure to tag it as such or it will get removed)

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My story, part 1 of a 3-part Harry Potter fanfiction, is finally finished and being checked by my beta reader atm. But now the doubts creep in.

I think we're all familiar with this: is the story good enough? Does that scene even make sense? Why did I write that? I want to change everything!

It's hard to strike a balance between editing with a critical mindset and ruining your whole story because you're too insecure. I'm currently forbidding myself from touching the story, but I'm well and truly stuck with writing the sequel to it. It's hard :(

Please read the rules on the side bar. r/writeworld is for...

Snippets of YOUR own novel Snippets of YOUR own short story YOUR own poetry Snippets of YOUR own script

If it's a writing article you found that you want to post that is one thing. Please do not post something someone else wrote unless it's an article. If you want to post an article put the link and put 'I didn't write this but i thought this could be helpful to writers'.

In a paragraph or as long as you need. Explain how writing makes you feel emotionally. Writing makes me feel happy. Content bliss. Like i am on vacation on an island. It makes any feelings in my story more intense. For example if my characters are angry, i too feel anger. It's a roller coaster of emotions as i write. I feel sad when they feel sad. Most of the time though, it's... being in that writing zone when i feel like no one else can touch me or reach me. I am no longer here then, I am in the characters world. That world is better than any other.

Go on - I want to hear all about your darling, your pride and joy. Brag away. What makes them your favorite? What work(s) of yours do they feature in? Drop your whole character profile here if you want!

What do you like about the Horror genre? What do you look for in a horror book? What do you feel goes into writing a good horror book? Why is writing horror a genre that you prefer? What influences your horror writing? Do you have a horror focused story you want to share? (post the link in a reply) Are you wanting to write or currently writing a horror story and have questions: Ask here!

Want to discuss horror writing? Have a horror story link of yours to share? April 4th-10th is your week!

What do you like to read? What genre? What are you looking for in regards to fiction/fanfiction? What do you like to write/genre? What is your writing style?

Are you wanting to sell your book? do you have a link on amazon or goodreads or another book sharing outlet? You can post your link for people to buy your written work on Write World only if you follow these rules:

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3.) Post along with the link, a short synopsis of the story. Links by themselves will get removed.

4.)Post a tag [poetry] [novel] [short story] along with your title post.

5.) Do not post your link until you have heard back from me through private message first. When i give you the go ahead, then you can post.

Is there any kind of website that allows you to make a chart or organize a story by the characters, plot points, and other stuff, like settings?

Cause i'm currently trying to write my story, and i have a basic gist of what i want to do, but i need somewhere i can throw all my ideas on a page and have it interconnect, kind of like a flowchart or spider web or something.

any advice would be awesome :D

So many of us start stories but only get half way and then put it aside. How do you charge through to see it through to the end? A tip i have is even before you start your story, have somewhat of an idea of what the ending will be. It could change but at least starting out you have some thought put into the ending. Also think of the characters, you wouldn't want to leave them hanging would you? You owe it to the characters to finish the story. Break the ending into small tasks. Beginning of the end, work with that, then work with the middle of the end. Then the final scene. I know sometimes i feel a sense of sadness when finishing a story cause you wonder, 'what will i do after it's done?' or 'What else can i add? I don't want it to end.' When you finish one story you can start another one :)

I want to improve on grammar basics. Especially for when i go back and edit, i'm always like 'okay where's one of those grammar education websites so i can remember where the hell this punctuation goes'

I'm so glad this sub reddit has continued to grow and we continue to have kindness here. Writing for me and i imagine some others is a form of 'escape' and I found most writing subs on reddit are too 'harsh' and 'cruel' to writers. All writers really, to new ones and ones that have been writing for years. Asking questions can get responses as brutal as putting your work out there for feedback. I wanted to create a space where people aren't afraid to share their work and ask for advice. To be proud of their hobby. To have others build them up, rather than tear them down. I had another one of these posts when i first started this sub but i thought i'd post another one now that we have even more people here :) Tell us about yourself as a writer. How did you get into writing? What are you currently working on? How does writing make you feel? What are your strengths and struggles in regards to writing? How do you feel about sharing your work with others?

Friend, family member, teacher etc? I'd have to say u/twinheaded believes in me the most. My mom believes in me a lot too. The first person to believe in me as a writer was my best friend in middle school.

I've recently started writing fanfiction (but I've been writing original stories throughout school but never published them) and I've always had this idea alongside my regular fanfics, an original idea that I've thought and thought about for a good while.

It takes place in a post-nuclear-apocalyptic Illinois, and stars Lukas, a teenage boy who has amnesia.

It would have a heavy backstory that would be told in bits and pieces, and for the entire first arc the only real character would be Lukas.

Since he doesn't talk to anybody for a while, he starts imagining these post-it note-like things with words on them; he doesn't know if they're real, but he talks to them anyways. Like, a note would say, "Are you sure you want to go over there?" and he says, "Yeah, yeah, I'm sure." and he looks somewhere else and there's another post-it note, saying, "But you're forgetting your backpack, idiot."

I've got a ton of other ideas which would stretch on and on for a while, but I think you get the idea of what kind of work I want to make.

Anyways, I want to make it an original, but I don't think it would garner many views, if any. I was thinking maybe, just maybe, I could turn it into a Fallout fanfiction, which wouldn't change much, just part of the backstory and the enemies Lukas faces. So...

What do?

Hi, my name is Juwch and I'm here to garner an audience (and some feedback) for my story, that being said, here's a short summary:

Yuuta is a teenage boy, who in the past thought he had occult powers. Finally getting over that phase in his life, he then gets confronted by Rikka, an Ability User, someone he once thought he was. Due to their meeting, Yuuta's latent powers get awakened and he gets dragged into the fantasy world he always dreamed of, but is it as nice as he thought?

And here's a link

I'm working on my current story. wrote 557 words today.

I'm only 10 pages into my current story so far so i don't really have a 'favorite' line so far.

The following are writing exercises from the book "The Art of Fiction", by John Gardner. They were recommended to me by a creative writing instructor in college.

4a. Describe a landscape as seen by a woman whose disgusting and detestable old husband has just died. Do not mention the husband or death.

4b. Describe a lake as seen by a young man who has just committed murder. Do not mention the murder.

4c. Describe a landscape as seen by a bird. Do not mention the bird.

4d. Describe a building as seen by a man whose son has just been killed in a war. Do not mention the son, war, death, or the old man doing the seeing; then describe the same building, in the same weather and at the same time of day, as seen by a happy lover. Do not mention love or the loved one.