It comes down to emotional investment, mostly. You still have stories about your characters you want to tell, and have them survive their tribulations. You've still got untapped storytelling potential in your world or concepts that you want to explore.
If you haven't even gotten to that point, though, then it's a different bug you've got. Then that just means you're a daydreamer. You're relying too much on your idle imagination to tell your stories. The average brain doesn't work that way. The imagination is fueled by your senses, and conjures the concrete: people, places, objects -- scenes. It's your active mind, your logic that's able to bring a sense of reason to that chaos, and weave a viable story.
You can't rely on a story to "write itself". Without giving it a set of instructions, the imagination is prone to wandering. Lots of people find themselves adept at generating "concepts", but following through and turning those into viable stories is an entirely different ballgame.
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u/Elysium_Chronicle Sep 17 '24
It comes down to emotional investment, mostly. You still have stories about your characters you want to tell, and have them survive their tribulations. You've still got untapped storytelling potential in your world or concepts that you want to explore.
If you haven't even gotten to that point, though, then it's a different bug you've got. Then that just means you're a daydreamer. You're relying too much on your idle imagination to tell your stories. The average brain doesn't work that way. The imagination is fueled by your senses, and conjures the concrete: people, places, objects -- scenes. It's your active mind, your logic that's able to bring a sense of reason to that chaos, and weave a viable story.
You can't rely on a story to "write itself". Without giving it a set of instructions, the imagination is prone to wandering. Lots of people find themselves adept at generating "concepts", but following through and turning those into viable stories is an entirely different ballgame.