I'm Not a Writer - Comments

I have the exact same problem. I would love to just sit down and be able to write but when I do it just doesn't come out right, or at all. I have written anything good for a while now and it sucks :(

Just because you can't get through to longer works, it doesn't mean you're not a writer. I've scrapped most of my long story ideas even before I really began. My only completed pieces are short, nothing over five chapters. The longest stories I've got are co-written. Bouncing off her writing helped me keep focus and was fun, so we always do our best to keep at it. My longest story I've done is a mostly a product of a two year stretch and it's still going. I'm one of those that loses motivation to write quickly. I've got to put a lot of love into my characters and really make them real, or else I get bored, and it difficult to keep you inner hype up, so I feel you. It can be a real pain in the ass.

You're where I am in a way. I have so many ideas that I'd love to make into full-fledged novels but I just can't write anything very lengthy until I become uninterested with the idea I originally had. That is actually the reason I (very very rarely) write one-shots and mostly why I write poems. They're short and to the point. Writing super long and complicated stories is just a skill you have to work on. You start small and work your way up, you know? Or maybe you're just more comfortable with short stories and its what you're good at. Nothing wrong there.

@ LastBastille

I try my hardest to make myself believe that, I really do. I'm just trying to accept myself for who I am when it comes to writing. Maybe it's a skill I still need to develop, or my brain just doesn't work that way. I'm betting on the latter. But I can't do novel worthy stories, lengthy stories, it gets to be a bit much for me sometimes because I'm always coming up with ideas and it's annoying trying to choose one knowing that you could have done better. You'd think I'd be someone that writes poems but I'm not lol. Tysm for this though dear, I agree 100%

@ Michael Westen

True, it sucks. All in good time though, I'm slowly but surely getting out of this type of thinking.

What makes a writer is someone who writes, as Blake said, it's also someone who is constantly thinking of ideas and asking questions. i mean that's how most stories are written. We ask a question about what would happen if.... etc and then we start exploring that question ourselves. As long as you have an imagination that sparks the idea, and an idea than you're a writer.

I understand this so well. For a while I was in that boat. Not quite sure how I hopped out, but I did.

I think what makes a writer though is just someone who writes. Plain and simple. We are our own worst critics, so even if we don't like something we've penned out, someone else might find it to be utterly fantastic.

I completely understand where you are coming from. But I think you're a little off point on one thing. You are a writer. You so are. If you can string even one sentence together or you have visions of a great piece of literature that you want to see come to fruition, then you, my friend, are a writer. I used to fancy myself some great novelist who was going to publish a book someday. That is not who I think I am anymore, but I still write. Do what makes you happy. In the end, that is what will matter most. It will be your greatest success.