Hello! I'm conducting a writing style analysis, and I would absolutely love reading (fiction) stories written by INTJs! And I don't mean famous published people - I'm looking for YOU! Unrefined writing samples, unpublished works. They don't have to be good, or finished, or recent - in fact, the earlier and more unrefined, the better!
Please answer to this post if you wish to help me with my project!
I'm self-published if you're looking for indies.
I'm looking for anything - the more unrefined, the better. share a link?
My work is polished but okay. https://melissasnark.com/
wait a second how much did you write? And for how long have you been writing? Covers look amazing btw.
Thanks. My cover designer deserves all the credit.
I've written about twenty published works in total, mostly novels, but a few shorter works. I've been writing since at least third grade. First published in 2010.
This is just my opinion but I doubt you'll find many INTJs with shoddy published work. My unrefined work will NEVER see the light of day.
That's what I thought^^ Se-inferior really hates sharing a negative experience.
But that's actually quite a hindrance to what I'm trying to do. I want to be able to give type-specific advice for every type, for which I'd really appreciate "shoddy" writing samples. I would never show it to anyone(not without your permission), It's just about understanding how your cognition works when writing stories.
Especially the outlines. Could you perhaps tell me how you outline? And how has your outlining process changed?
I don't hate sharing a negative experience. Everyone makes mistakes, which are an opportunity for learning and improvement. That said, readers WILL judge you and indie authors as a whole have a shoddy reputation because of the amount of sloppy self-published books that are out there.
Hook: Dead to Rights was my first attempt at first-person. I wrote it as an experiment and it was never supposed to be published except a professional author encouraged me. It's weird because it's some of my worst writing and yet it's my most popular book.
I'm a plotter. My go-tos are Save the Cat!, Write Your Novel From the Middle, or anything by James Scott Bell. However I started out pantsing it and I didn't become focused on craft until after my first book was accepted for publication by a small press.
Is any of this useful?
It sounds like a success story^^
How do you make sure the audience will enjoy themselves?
Do you have the issue that you keep your sentences to a high personal standards - and whenever they don't fit, you change them right away? Or do push that bit for the edits?
Do you have certain scenes and pieces that you pick as goals in your mind, and then you "chart your course" toward them?
I'm just so curious how Ni works together with Te.
All I can do is tell the best story I'm able. There's absolutely no guarantee that anyone will like and/or read it. I do have an Alpha reader whose opinions I trust. Her feedback is invaluable.
Getting hung up on sentences is a pitfall of perfectionism. An author can spend hours to weeks messing around with the first line/page/chapter. If you want to be prolific, it's all about getting the words on the page. Anything and everything gets fixed in editing. I've axed entire chapters and even manuscripts that weren't up to snuff. So that old business about killing your darlings is valid.
I do write with ProWritingAid but grammar software should never replace professional editors. I prefer to use at least three different editors--one DE, one copy/line, and a minimum of one proofreader.
I have no idea what Ni versus Te is, sorry.