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[Descan]

Your idea seems stupid? Write it anyway. One of two things will happen. Either it will turn out just as badly as you thought, in which case you'll have practice for the next one, or the stupidity will prove to be an illusion and you'll have created something worth having. Win-Win.

Aye, if you worry too much about having *good ideas* and berate yourself for coming up with bad ones, soon you'll have an aversion to coming up with any ideas at all, for fear of them being bad.

Coming up with ideas is first, practice that. You can manually filter out the bad ones to start with. Eventually you'll be able to filter them out automatically.

[Neyvn]

Playing Minecraft - FTB Crashlanding Hardcore Quest Map...
10+ Days in, was starting to get a steady supply of water.
All of a sudden, I see a blur of Green, I swing at it, I miss, its like fighting a tiny flash as the babyzombie zips in and out attacking me, I don't even have time to seal myself away safely before it kills me.... T_T

[Yoink]

Flappy Bird + 50 Shades of Grey

Hmm.... seems like an idea.

Also: stay safe, Mastahcheese!

[Tiruin]

But then, when I try to start, I just think, "Do you realize how stupid those ideas are? You'll probably mess up somewhere and it'll end up horrible. Or, best case scenario, you do it just right, but then everyone will hate you for doing it because, as I said before, they are incredibly stupid."
And then I don't do anything.

> Intrusive thought.
> Press for Backing.
> Learn its a lie. ^{Alright, some may be stupid--check why it is so or why its horrible; edit and fix, move on.}
> PUSH FORWARD, DEAR!
Those aren't stupid, having seen your work in question. That thought speaks of doubt and uncertainty. Reinforce your thoughts before moving on in life or troubles ahead will sprout.
That's similar to problems I've had in which I fear the response rather than I'm doing it so I'm pretty stuck here with finished works just waiting to be uploaded.
And the problems stem in thought. Getting over it though from self-therapy. ._.

[alexandertnt]

 

Spoiler: Batteries are expensive too... (click to show/hide)

[miauw62]

The thing is successful people don't care that their ideas are stupid.

Mate: Flappy Bird. 50 Shades of Grey. Highly successful stupid shit is the norm, not the exception. You'd have to be amazingly talented at being stupid to create stuff where everyone will hate you because it's so stupid. There's some steep competition for that crown.

No matter how stupid it is, someone will buy it. Basically minimize the number of outstanding projects, prioritize them by size and how worthwhile they are. You're not going to make much money off a "Let's Play" video series for example, and they can take a long time. That's the sort of thing I'd put way down on the back burner.

Short stories are a great use of time though, get those written, there's a lot you can do with the format. Work in chunks, a novel is really a series of short stories after all, break it down and set small goal. You can smoosh all the stories together later on computer nowadays, so it really doesn't matter what order you write chapters.

To add weight to the last paragraph: remember that the Foundation trilogy was originally just a series of short stories :v

[MonkeyHead]

Iain M Banks culture series also originated in a short story called "State of the Art" which explored and codified underlying universe elements well before any longer novels appeared.

[Kamin]

I sometimes wish this wasn't a joke. But then I realize this is B12, and snap the fuck out of it.

[TD1]

I detest a family member.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

What skin and bone do not convey
Is that beneath there is a soul.
Ay, all have it from low to high
Though oft it is the shade of coal.

Just so, just so, when family
Will speak of flesh as kin
Not minding, never caring,
That flesh is oft akin to sin.

Yes, the sinful man will sin
No matter flesh or bone.
Your brother may smother,
And call you his own.

Ha! Ha! Fools and rioutous priests,
They know not what lurks beneath.
A thin façade, like paint,
Will not be cover to a saint.

Of old they though that demons hid
Inside the skins of man,
That brother turns on brother
Not just because they can.

I tell you, friend, I treasure thee
That has a soul of purity
Much more than those who lurk
Behind their insecurity.

The sinful man is bully
And ne’er can learn fully
That he is a fool,
His face it does drool
In aspect like a beast,
Who on our heart does feast.

[mastahcheese]

Personally, I like it.

[Orange Wizard]

I detest a family member.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

What skin and bone do not convey
Is that beneath there is a soul.
Ay, all have it from low to high
Though oft it is the shade of coal.

Just so, just so, when family
Will speak of flesh as kin
Not minding, never caring,
That flesh is oft akin to sin.

Yes, the sinful man will sin
No matter flesh or bone.
Your brother may smother,
And call you his own.

Ha! Ha! Fools and rioutous priests,
They know not what lurks beneath.
A thin façade, like paint,
Will not be cover to a saint.

Of old they though that demons hid
Inside the skins of man,
That brother turns on brother
Not just because they can.

I tell you, friend, I treasure thee
That has a soul of purity
Much more than those who lurk
Behind their insecurity.

The sinful man is bully
And ne’er can learn fully
That he is a fool,
His face it does drool
In aspect like a beast,
Who on our heart does feast.

That sounds like a fairly reasonable reaction.

[Mr. Strange]

Behold, this amazing fan-fiction linked from the WTF thread. Can your writing be worse than that?

Seen worse. This one Twilight fanfic where Edward was roundhouse kicking ninjas in central park before meeting not!Mary Sue comes to mind...

[hops]

I'm scared that I'm going to grow old and permanently lose the chance to be physically attractive. It feels like I'm racing against time here in the hope that I get at least a single year that I'm not ugly before it gets ruined by age.

[scrdest]

I wouldn't worry about that. Many old people can still look very physically attractive, and besides, you're really young right now.
And you're already handsome~

Or 'still'.

To !!SCIENCE!!-mobile!

[Yoink]

Looks<Confidence, as far as I am aware. As long as a person has a face and isn't a gibbering maniac I'm pretty sure they can be attractive to someone if they put themselves out there.