I want to write stories, but everything that I try seems extremely

>>18529676
Read more. That's always the #1 advise from writers

>>18529998
advice*

>>18529676
Write more. You won't get any better without practice

>>18529676
1. read a lot in a observing maner, try to get in the head of an author when you read a book for the second time. ask questions like: "why did he mention that thing that won't appear again?", "why do i like / dislike this element?", "why would you say something so irrelevant to the rest of the story?" etc.
2. get a rough outline of your story, (character motivation, arch's, making your macguffin more than a macguffin) before you start writing and ink it in from there
3. MAKE F@*%ING DRAFTS, for the love of god, if you publish your first draft you will leave in mistakes, miss out on oppertunities for clever writing (smart forshadowing, changes in diologue style) and make a lot of style mistakes

I think that with the whole "if you don't like it don't look at it" culture nowadays, the bar has been set pretty low when it comes to the quality of amateur writing, webcomics, etc.

>>18529676
Write. If you don't like what you've written, rewrite it to make it better. Then rewrite it again and make it even better. And then again. And again.

There is a myth that "real" writers just have the perfect product flow fully formed the first time. Absolute and utter nonsense. "Real" writers write and rewrite and rewrite and throw it all away and start all over and rewrite and rewrite and rewrite. And they are NEVER happy with what turns out to be the final product, but stop when it is close enough to what they really wanted to write that they can bear to look at it

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>>18529676
>seems extremely juvenile
Why dont wrote to THAT public? First of all you need to select your audience: child, old, juvenile, teens... etc.

With time you may improve all your storytelling skills, all stories are great, just dont go in the mary sue thing

>>18529676
Ask /lit/ and practice