writers block

Wanting to protect your original ideas is a legitimate concern, and if you post anything, anywhere on the internet, it’s more or less “out there” and I can most definitely sympathize with said concerns. If you don’t want to post anything I understand, some of us could try to give our input regardless, but if you want to really progress I’d highly recommend sharing your work with someone you can confide in (in person if possible) to act as an editor.

Should you so choose, you can start a new topic, and if you’d like you could put it under “chit chat” instead of fanfiction. If it’s alright with you, I’d like to keep this topic here under the “fanfiction” section so others down the road can possibly use it to voice their own questions/advice regarding writer’s block in general.

If you’d rather not post just yet you can look into finding a “sparring partner” (is that what we’re calling it? okay then) whom you can bounce ideas off of and share some of your material with via chat or pm before posting for all to see; there’s also the “upload attachment” option beneath “submit” when typing a post which will make your file (ex. Word document) visible only to members of the forum (not saying it’s not still “out there” potentially, but it’s slightly more discreet). I’m always up for reading people’s work, but I’m not volunteering myself as the best choice for the time being because I have a lot on my plate now and some others’ work “backlogged” waiting to be read as it is, but I can put you on my list if you’d like. There’s lots of other writers and like-minded people of that sort to be found around the forum, however, and meeting some of these awesome people is mostly just a matter of time; I wouldn’t be surprised if you found a “writing buddy” (yeah, “sparring partner” sounds cooler, right?) or two shortly, it happens fairly often.