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Need Advice or SupportHave you ever written a book?
I’ve wanted to write a book for probably ten or more years. I’ve tried before, I made it about 25k words in NANOWRIMO one year (ten or so years ago lol) and then I just kind of moved on to other hobbies. I think university made me a lot less interested in writing for myself because i was writing so many essays.
I still write poetry when the inspiration comes.I’ve written a lot of it over the years. I’ve tried compiling it into a book. Didn’t get very far. Felt very, very intimate and I thought about family reading it. Not that it was like, overly detailed or gratuitous or anything, I just realize I would have to reveal a lot of myself to do it. And I think I want to write a fiction book more than anything really.
So, if you have written a book before, or wanted to write a book for years and then finally did, how did you do it? How were you able to actually finish? I get caught up in the planning of the book I want to write, which seems like a way to actually avoid writing it. Yesterday I found a note on my old phone from 2018, where I said I need to write my book. I think time is just gonna keep moving and if I don’t write this thing I’ll think about it and regret it.
Would love to hear from aspiring authors, published authors, or just other writers. Thanks!
Would it be from people downvoting older things?
Yep
Worry ye not over imaginary internet points
Thanks. I wasn't worried so much as disappointed--I was so close to a nice round number.
I might use a treasure map font to start a "Worry ye not" list for myself though. Many more things to add to it!
Yep
Worry ye not over imaginary internet points
I’m not so sure about that. My points have decreased three times over the past couple of weeks. By fairly large amounts. I have rarely posted in that time. While it’s possible a few people dislike me enough to find one of my few recent posts and then downvote my older comments, I don’t know how likely that is. I thought maybe some accounts were deleted. But I’m not sure it’s accurate that if an account goes away, the upvotes they gave go away too.
Maybe if comments/posts are deleted, then points from upvotes are deleted, too? Couldve been from some routine housekeeping -- maybe the mods deleted some older posts that you'd commented on, and upvotes went poof. I don't know if it works that way.
I actually noticed mine had decreased a little bit the other day and I don't think I've posted anything highly controversial in recent days that might've attracted more downvotes than usual. I'm not overly concerned about it, but I was kind of wondering what was going on with that.
I don't know if it's someone disliking my comments and posts enough to go through my history and downvote a bunch of old ones, or if it's some other benign explanation instead.
It’s not from new downvotes, it’s from removed votes from banned accounts. If we think someone we banned was using the downvote button to target individuals, certain circles, mass downvote in a rage, etc, then we delete their post history because we don’t actually want people feeling discouraged by people downvoting their recent content. But it deletes all of their vote history.
Thanks for the info!