: Re: Want to write, have ideas, no story telling techniques or experience, feeling lost? I have developed a sci-fi/fantasy mixed universe with many characters, good amount of background lore and I

You are a prisoner of having learned too much about the writing process before ever trying it out. Forget everything you have learned or been told, and just write massive amounts without worrying at all about how good it is, or whether it follows the rules.

Then, finally, after you've written FAR more than you need for a story/novella/book (whichever is appropriate), go back, and start reworking that material into shape.

Think of it as being a very special kind of sculptor. Eventually you're going to carve up that big block of stone, and bring something beautiful out of it, but first you have to generate the block of stone itself, including plenty of material that will later get excised.

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