Does writing novel longer make us lose our ideas and exhausted?

[Firestorm22345]

I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Not here - but then I had people tell me how hard writing was, how impossible it was to make a living at it (they seem right on that point), etc.

And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing - whenever I don't have one of my own, I steal borrow one from somewhere else and just keep chugging along.

 

[Rosica]

Writing novel is easy, completing it? Not so much. Sometimes, the universe tell us to stop. It will show us signs the path we take is not the correct one.

 

[Firestorm22345]

Not here - but then I had people tell me how hard writing was, how impossible it was to make a living at it (they seem right on that point), etc.

And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing - whenever I don't have one of my own, I steal borrow one from somewhere else and just keep chugging along.

Bro wth?

 

[Bimbanana]

Lose idea? No.
Exhausted? Yes.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Bro wth?

The exhausted part is very real but running out of ideas doesn't happen (or won't for the remainder of my life, which is likely another decade or so).
I used to be the regular game master in RPGs so always had to have an idea ready, even if it wasn't my own idea to start with, and that taught me to look for story ideas everywhere, even when a player not a GM.

 

[Bimbanana]

And getting involved in role-playing games helped a lot with the "running out of ideas" thing

I know right

 

[JordanIda]

Professional writers know what they are writing. They know the end, before they start the beginning. They finish what they start. They meet deadlines. They do not improve as they go or burn out trying. They train for years, before they start. Professional writers do not find their way by luck.

Here? This place is an entirely different scene. This forum is filled with hand-wringing over every conceivable anti-pattern. Here hope and dreams seem to be both motivator and method combined. Hope is not a plan, and dreams are not professions. If hope and dreams are all you've got for motivation and method, you're bound to become frustrated and burnt out. Dreams don't pay the rent.

 

[Firestorm22345]

Hope is not a plan, and dreams are not professions.

Are you defining the wisdom of hopes? And you meant my black cat isn't my lucky cat?

I know right

We all know, my orc friend

 

[Rosica]

Hope is not a plan, and dreams are not professions. If hope and dreams are all you've got for motivation and method, you're bound to become frustrated and burnt out. Dreams don't pay the rent.

Hope is a dangerous thing to give to someone.

 

[JordanIda]

@Firestorm22345, I'm saying that yes, lucky souls do occasionally hit the jackpot due to blind luck, but it's disheartening to see this entire self-pub movement sputtering along on that dream: all these people, hoping they will hit the jackpot, too. Professional writers almost never emerge from this activity. Frustration and burnout are typically the inevitable outcome.

Hope is a dangerous thing to give to someone.

Entire generations have seen the likes of JK Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Cassandra Clare, et. al. seemingly come out of the woodwork, achieving fame out of nowhere, by blind luck. So many hope to be next.

It can really happen.

For every trillion neutrinos that pass through the earth without touching a thing, there's always one that will knock an electron off its orbit.

 

[Rzzy]

For now, that is not my issue yet, what becomes my problem is when implementing that idea itself into my writing. For me, hunting ideas is easy, I only need to make use of the human civilization that has existed for thousands of years, and within it lie millions of stories as references to be cracked from their shells, as we know, History.

 

[IWILLDEFYTHEHEAVENS]

For me, it's exhaustion.
And when that happens, I rest. But if I still am not getting over it, I either tweak the plot or introduce a new character.
Something different from my original plan always got my brain back on track.

 

[Tetrahedron]

the thing about writing stories is that one should not get into it for the sake of earning money or fame, even though it isn't really the case in this post.
it's already a competitive market, even for anything you posted here or on Royal Road (especially if you're competing with others that has Amazon Kindle contract for a long time)

My advice is to treat writing as a hobby or if you have something that really needs to be poured down onto texts, be it stories, satires or even direct critics to your government, it doesn't matter.
Hobbies can stall depending on whether you don't feel like going into it or had things to settle in life. And it's okay.

 

[Rosica]

My advice is to treat writing as a hobby or if you have something that really needs to be poured down onto texts, be it stories, satires or even direct critics to your government, it doesn't matter.

Casual, a low-stakes environment, offers comfort and psychological safety, allowing for experimentation. Competitive introduce high-stakes pressure, causing authors to write tentatively.

 

[Bald-san]

I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?

Instead of Ideas, I lost motivation when I write long novels. I'm practicing with a Pokemon fanfic, it's based on my interest in Research so my gas won't run out anytime soon but I hope I get to be disciplined during this period of time

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?

I planned my novel, so I didn't have that problem.

What I encountered, however, is the common problems of authors whose English isn't their native tongue. I wrote with weird words and sentence construction too much that I ended stopping coz writing ain't for me.

 

[Rosica]

writing ain't for me.

Writing in English. You can still write in Tagalog or Visayan.

 

[Firestorm22345]

I planned my novel, so I didn't have that problem.

What I encountered, however, is the common problems of authors whose English isn't their native tongue. I wrote with weird words and sentence construction too much that I ended stopping coz writing ain't for me.

Hey sis, I am also prepared my mind until I made a big mistake in ending with the trial schedulement. But I also made some backup with my small project. If nobody likes it, it's okay as those are my baits to give me more time of thinking and writing(Maybe)

 

[TheKillingAlice]

I can feel it if we look at our childhood retired youtuber, SMG4. He worked hard then he was retired suddenly. In the interview, we know that he had told all of his stories.... and out of ideas. I think that it may be a common issue that not only the story tellers but also writers like us have dealt with it. We start our first novels with a lot of ideas, then we run out of them when the storyline went far. I also face with this when I need to continue my The Youth Gang. I also blame myself for being overconfident that writing novel is easy as hell. What about you guys?

Not really - at least not for me, so it already can't be a general thing anymore, as it doesn't affect everyone. I have so many ideas, I know I will never be able to tell them all, especially not at my current pace, but even if I did write a bit more efficiently.
As a writer, I have myriad of problems - running out of ideas has never been one of them.