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Hello! I'm bulwark (they/them), nice to be here. Professionally I'm a computer science PhD student in my 3rd year. I mostly work on data visualizations for my work. I've also worked as a software engineer in the past. I have also been making video games for about a decade, primarily programming...

I actually have watched most of the BYU lectures from Brandon Sanderson. They were very helpful, but I don't remember there being very many prompts. I think I did maybe 3. I spent my evening writing so I'm moving forward, that's the only way. I'm just writing what I feel like rather than...

That's a good idea! I tend to avoid competitions, I'm not super competitively driven, and I don't like the aggressive style of competitiveness that always seems to show up and dominate the whole affair. I think it being anonymous and online would obviate most of my initial ick factor. And I...

Yeah, I'm not super concerned with writing the "big one." I mostly just want to be writing the ideas that I have down in some way rather than just spinning them around for years. I know my first 1,000,000 words will suck, that's fine. I liked the idea of having a dozen prompts that will get me...

Let me make sure I understand. Just start writing the current story I'm thinking about. Write it until it's done, in the format I see it being in (novel.) Then get feedback on it? And the practice loop is just "write shitty novels (or whatever format) until you write a not shitty novel." Or...

I could never, lol. I can't stand gen-ai. I'll take a look at it, but I'd really like something focused on short story, novella, and novel style writing. Screenwriting seems like it has different goals (writing to be filmable and watchable on TV in 30-60 minute blocks) than writing fiction...

Hi! I'm starting to get into prose writing. I've got some story ideas I just need to get out into a written form. I'm not necessarily looking for a fast track plan to getting published or anything. I am looking either for A. a self guided course (book or online) on fiction writing or B. people...