: Re: If I wouldn't want to read the story, is writing it still a good idea? I struggle with forming full-fledged ideas. I'll come up with a snippet of an idea, have a hard time fleshing the idea

@Moriarity138

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The reasons to not write something you wouldn't read are pretty easy and straightforward:

You are a stand-in for your potential audience. If even you aren't interested in this idea, that audience may not exist.
It's hard to do a good job writing something that doesn't engage you.
If you're writing in a unfamiliar genre, your writing may appear cliched and amateurish to that genre's fans.

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In some ways the potential reasons to push on anyway are more interesting:

Not all writing is for publication. This writing may represent important learning for you, or inform your eventual published writing in some important way.
Not all ideas show all their magic at once --just like not all love is love at first sight. Sometimes the best final product comes from unpromising seeds.
Some writing --particularly fantasy --can help you personally explore your subconscious, and other internal psychological territory.
Sometimes an outsider to a genre can bring a fresh new perspective or ideas. It's not unheard of for successful fantasy books to be written by people who don't typically read fantasy.
If you have a pattern of giving up on all your ideas, then at some point you need to just push on through with one, all the way to the end. "Losing interest" can be a symptom of a mental block against completing a writing project.

This needs to be your own choice, but if there's something in this idea you're having trouble letting go of, I'd say go ahead and explore it --at least until you feel you've worked through it, and there's nothing more to gain out of it.

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