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>>agarde+(OP)
Someone needs to make a writing editor that disguises itself as forum threads, because I can write paragraphs off the cuff in response to Reddit and Hacker News no problem, but when I sit down to a blank editor I ...well it's hard to even sit at the blank editor to begin with, but it takes a lot of effort to get going.

If it weren't for Nanowrimo and being reminded consistently to participate in a short story anthology every year, I'd be a writer who didn't write (except comments on HN/Reddit).

>>cables+Tc
You kid, but there are a number of authors who have "inadvertently" written entire works on reddit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Sweet_Rome

>>munifi+2v
I find it's way easier to write stories when I have a known audience (i.e. I'm posting on Reddit).

Heck, one of my favorite plot ideas came when I was taking a SciFi lit class in college, and the final had a short response where we had to sketch an original short story concept.