Places To Critique My Writing: -

[Vex Overmind]

I haven't been confident in my own writing for the past three to five years. I've been struggling to even put out good stories and I just want some honest to god advice as to what I can do to improve. Before hand I felt like writing timeline's was a good thing to have. So I decided to come up with this.



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHk0jh7MB4TJbA0aixmrn9gowINk1lsbGBBOjYKWLno/edit


I plan on using the timeline as a basis for what will happen in the future of my other stories. To see how will things progress in my little world.

 

[Slowpoke Sonic]

write some fanfiction. any kind of fanfiction. it can be good, bad, erotic, really terrible, disgusting, or just simply an ironic fanfiction idk

and post them on to some site full of autists if you're ok with that

 

[Autistic Illuminati]

If you present a 102 pages timeline in lieue of your story then maybe there is a problem in the way you organise your work.
What you need to have is not a complete timeline filled with details, it's a concept, a resume of your story in 2/3 sentences.

 

[Wallace]

Honestly, just write shit. That gets you over the initial hurdle. No one produces excellent material on the first pass. You can always revise later.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I think it's awesome you have so much dedication to create a timeline of your world's history and lore, but there's way too damn much information to pack into one story, even if it's spread out across several different books. It's always best to condense it and use only the most important events to flesh out the history that the characters will be learning in the present. The audience doesn't need to know everything, and only the spergiest of spergs will bother to piece it all together.

And when you're getting old and gray and want to make little bit more cash off your work, you can always release some side-book of the timeline. The spergs will nitpick it to Hell and back, but at least you made money off of those suckers.

 

[Slowboat to China]

In my (admittedly limited) experience, timelines are like military plans: they never survive contact. Keep those plans, but set them aside and just write. Set yourself a challenge to put out 500 words a day, no matter how good or bad they are. Writing events like NaNoWriMo are good for that. In fact, if you're looking for inspiration and tips on how to just write, the NaNo forums are pretty good.

 

[MeatRokket08]

I did the same thing you're doing years ago, and it wasnt until I looked at my timeline last year that I scrapped 95% of it, keeping only the characters names and locations of settings.

Didn't get to see what your timeline looked like, but I will agree with the others that you may have way too much detail for one or several stories. You should only pick out details that matter or will matter in the long run. You can always come back to your timeline and see any extra info you want to keep and use.

Try to write a concept of story, characters, locations, and themes in 2-3 sentences each. If readers cant understand what youre going for in a paragraph then that might mean you need to work on it some more

 

[OhGoy]

Now, I'm no expert in writing and I'm probably parroting what everyone else is saying, but you seem to be suffering from "Tolkien syndrome" (AKA tons of world building and little to no actual character writing). No matter how fleshed out a world is, if the actual story that takes place in the world isn't interesting, then you're wasting time.

Like everyone else has said, come up with a short concept of what the setting is like, and go from there. You can slowly build upon the world as the story goes on. Above all else, though, focus on the actual plot and the characters within.