What is a writer?
A miserable little pile of words!


Call me MP or Miz


Fiction attempted, with various levels of success.


Yes, I do need help, thank you for noticing.



MiserablePileOfWords
@MiserablePileOfWords

what if nobody else fucking likes my ideas, huh?


estrogen-and-spite
@estrogen-and-spite

And to be clear, I'm not trying to dismiss your concern. But also: someone will. Because the reality is ideas aren't what matters. What matters is having something done, and then finding the people who will like it. You're already doing the latter here. I can't be the only person following you because I saw what you posted and went "mmmm, yes, these are good words. I should follow for more good words."

Then you just need to finish the thing and post that you did. Some of us will like it. Some of those who like it will share it with people like us who like what we like.

The secret is that if an idea seems good to you, it'll seem good to other people like you. If you're trying to make a living, you will want to find that broader appeal idea because marketing a book is a whole thing, but a book that has a narrow audience will still make more than a book that doesn't exists.

Let me share my ideas that became published books:
What if a dragon raised princess rebelled against alien colonizers?
What if Pokémon was an Isekai and also most of the mons were bugs?
What if an angry dead woman became a living dungeon and had dinosaurs fight dragons?
What if Baba Yaga's hut was a living dungeon who used mimics to fight demons?
What if dude with a magic phone plays Factorio with reality so hard it angers the gods?
What if Gods had physics duels for the fate of the world?
What if a Trans Woman starred in a Shonen anime?

I managed to find readers for those. Some more than others, but all of them had some sales and got at least decent reviews. But they're odd and niche. But they were done. They were books I could show someone and go "you want this?" And enough people went "yeah, sure, you know what? I do want that."

So you will find people who like your ideas. Again, I'm actual proof of that. So don't be ashamed of your ideas: be audacious enough to use them! Because you can find the people who will like them.


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in reply to @MiserablePileOfWords's post:

miz, dear friend, in the last month you have witnessed, at very least, otter eviscerate me with a run-out-of-control joke about a mad scientist who takes the term 'rubber ducking' too literally, and me pop off (at least relative to any previous creative project of mine) with 20k words (to date!) of a bunch of tree cyborgs not opening a door

it's cohost, it's the most We Will Like Your Ideas place on the internet

in reply to @estrogen-and-spite's post:

I can say for me personally, I passed on that one yesterday because of the TW - I can only handle stories that touch on that topic if I'm happy and well rested, and I haven't had a good night's sleep in like 8 days now. Was hoping to read today but...well, 5 hours is more than 3 but it's still not enough.

🫂

I do get that though. In the absence of feedback from outside sources, the inner critic gets loud. But we're always our own worst critics, and as someone who has seem your writing I'm sure it's good. <3