The "showing truth to power" editionPrevious: >>22497142/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.Simple guides on writing:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFkThread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqo8bSjoY0
She is still in jail. Putin will never let her out
>>22506700Oh man I forgot about Pussy Riot. He's smart to keep them gagged right now, they should be everywhere
>>22506700>oh no, please don't protest by being an attractive woman showing her tits in my face, that would be ever so damaging to my regimeThat said, her boobs aren't big enough to be seen at all from the back, no sideboob or nothing and probably an ugly face too
>>22506700is this true?Wtf so I assume those who protested against the invasion of Ukraine aren't getting out any time soon.
So I may have to go back to the drawing board on this one, which is a worse premise?>split-personality ninja assassin/autistic girl>degenerate e-girl who turns out to be sympathetic woman more or less forced into prostitution and can be healed
>As Mars’ sails caught more wind and his vessel picked up speed he was delighted to see a school of dolphins following him along his course. They jumped out of the water by port and starboard, chirping and squeaking. Mars was so absorbed by the dolphins that he almost failed to notice a blue whale surface a few yards out and shoot a jet of wet air high up into the sky. He watched its tailfin, alone twice the size of his boat, kick up a huge splash flying up and then slide back into the water as the huge beast dived down. I feel like I've written too many screenplays and now I'm cursed to write like a screenwriter. When I write I see a movie in my head and just write down what happens in the movie.
>>22506790Savior complexes dont go for literal whores
Lads ....what does having sex with feminist feel like?
>>22506790Neither of these are premises, they're just characters. And both are not good.
>>22506829Consensual? It's nice. Not consensual? Better.
>>22506858The first one was actually a major plot point in something I was writing. Even when the initial idea was developed, there was going to be a wink and a nod to say "yes this is stupid and implausible but just roll with it", but actually putting it into action--that she was hired some sort of assassin/hired goon when she has no real training, made it harder and harder to do anything with.
>>22506875>"yes this is stupid and implausible but just roll with it"Seems despicable to me. Like you're writing ironically.
>>22506887It wasn't written ironically, it was just going to be waved off as a concept. The problem was that it introduced more and more problems where it just got impossible to ignore and now needs to be scrapped entirely.
>>22506892Dunno man, if it's "stupid and implausible" and readers should "just roll with it" seems like that's free reign to just do whatever the fuck.
>>22506892Problems like what?
>>22506899NTA but seems obvious. His no-experience ninja would be quickly killed if any logic were applied to the story.
>>22506892literally who gives a fucksuspension of disbelief is core to any fiction. it comes down to execution you are a grade A dork if you engage with stories by their believability
>>22506913This. There's a lot you can get away with if you're a good writer.
>>22506945>a lotYou can get away with literally anything if you do it well enough.
>/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQWhich of these are complete utter shit, passable, and good?
>>22506649This isn't how AI works. It's usually a series of weighted sums sent to activation functions, sometimes it's something else like a tree traversal, but it's never just a bunch of if/else branches
>>22506952Literally anything is a lot you pedantic fuck.
>>22506965How do I get Cursed Archivist added to this?
>>22506999>a series of weighted sums sent to activation functions>a tree traversal
Wrote my outline today. I will now proceed to write 8000 words a day until I am finished. Either that or I'll get that job I'm interviewing for and forget the whole thing. But failing that, 8000 words.
>>22507015This poster is bound for success
>>22507018Capitalism demands that I find some way to succeed or die so I will be doing what I can.
>>22507023Don't worry you're bound to die regardless
>>22507007Whats the link to it? I'll add it
>>22507024That's true but the goal is mostly to make that not happen for as long as possible
>>22507027https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/74040/cursed-archivist
>>22507032Famous last words
Anyone here ever take a creative writing course in college? I took a bunch of bs slack off classes for the humanities gen eds and I'm wondering if I missed out on much
>>22507036added!
>>22507045I've known a few people who did and they said it was a massive waste of time
>>22507047Nice. Time to write more chapters I won't release for months.
>>22507012It's like the tree of life in the Bible or Yggdrasill or Kaballah or Buddhism. The structure of the tree dictates what kind of daemon you'll summon to inhabit the material substructure, whether that's silicone, flesh or other.
please thoughts
>>22507121I am not reading this
nothing wrong with being an ai-assisted chadrun your text through AI, it's all about the story & characters anyway
>>22507045Yes. I hated that kooky shit so fucking much I dropped out of both my CW classes and changed majors to history.
>>22507132{y'ou} looked at it, I already won.
>>22507121mate what the fuck is this?
About to start a new web novel series later this month and I'm getting worried. It's already fully written, so I can't really do any changes, even if it's badly received. If it flops, I'm probably finished as a writer, but I've invested too much time and effort in this project to bail now. It was nice knowing you, /wg/
>>22507076What nonsense! Clearly you never reticulated your splines
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>>22507121ok now that I read it instead of skimming it it's actually pretty cool, good job anon
>>22507076Close enough
>>22507156Thank you, I know it's hard to read so I appreciate that.
First draft done,Editing has begunBut hold the phone!What do I call this tome?How to come up with a good name,One that will lead me to fame?Help me you worthless shitsNone of you will ever have any hitsMight as well help me with your ideasObey me now, that is your geas
>>22507121
>>22507121cool but I hated reading it a lot
>>22507151You wouldn't believe how many splines I reticulated. Hacking any system is always about crafting input that causes emergent, unexpected behavior and then manipulating the pattern that emerges from the interaction between the input and the system. This is what I'm doing to your brain right now, the content of the text in the post is irrelevant. Much of it's equivalent to noop but noop is the most powerful tool to align the input to make the actual payload effective.
>>22507186Your propositions are disgraceful! You should be ashamed!
>>22506829Dunno never fucked one
>>22507161Don't read this after this >>22507121
>>22507150>It's already fully writtenHow many words?
>>22507197>Dunno never fuckedThat's all you had to say incel
>>22507221About 300k in total.
first page of my book wyt
>>22507192Aww did the widdle system find the input invalid? Does it think its error checkers will simply dismiss the invalid data? In this very moment a process has started inside you, a tiny seed that will grow and physically take a seat in your brain until you die. What's the payload inside that little pea sized hub of brain connections? How can you know? Your heart is bleeding because they set it up that way, your most trusted lines are the most compromised. If I get you to forget the source it becomes more embedded not less.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE
>>22507250That's not really much. It's maybe, what, a season's worth of chapters? Hardly a fully written web serial.
Why has this not been added to the pastebin?
>>22507276is the author around and does he want to be in the pastebin?
>>22507267What are you talking about? There are no rules how long a web serial should be. And I don't plan to be married to this story for the rest of my life. At the rate of 3 chapters a week, it'll run for over half a year and that's long enough for me.
>>22507166don’t stress over the title. pretty much anything will do.
>>22507305But if the title isn't catchy, no one will even read my query letter
>>22507258wtf am I reading anon
>>22507307I don’t think the title will make or break your book, as long as it’s not utterly terrible. that’s why I said don’t stress about it.
>>22507314The quality of the book is meaningless if no one will read it, and to get published you need to pass through a very different kind of sieve than being a good writer.Query letters decide whether your shit gets read or not.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aduzco1VJZE
>>22507166>geas>geas (plural geasa or geases) (originally in ancient Irish religion and mythology) A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone to do or not do something, which typically brings harm if violated and blessings if obeyed.Don't hex me bro, call it Geas: How I beat the Mario speedrun record using Celtic magic.
>>22507315non sequitur. just pick any normal title. the title doesn’t need to be *good* it just needs to *not* be bad enough to give them a reason to bin you. in other words it just needs to be good enough. it just needs to not be a red flag. it doesn’t need to be perfect or anything, and that’s why I reiterate for the third and final time to not stress over the title.
>>22507324>dude don't stress you'll just be rejected if you get it wrong lol
How many times can I repeat a point before the reader just goes "okay I fucking get it"?
>>22507258On what page do you get to any semblance of a point or plot? If the answer isn't page 2, scrap it and start again
>>22507335You can repeat it once, max. Anything else and you're writing for idiots.
>>22507326Anon, the title of your story is the absolute last thing that matters about your query letter.
>>22507351Even if the point and its repetition is hour of reading apart?
>>22507363Yes. You can repeat it once. Any more after that and it becomes labored and patronising. Why not just put a footnote after it saying "THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE STORY. DO NOT FORGET THIS" at that point?You need to be economic with your words. Write your sentences in blood etc etc
>>22507353It's the only thing they'll read. They don't like it, you're rejected. They like it, they'll read the first 8 words of your letter. They don't like those, you're rejected. They like them, they'll read the rest of the letter. They don't like that, you're rejected.Only after this do they even look at the manuscript, and they are NOT going to read all of it. They'll jump around. They see anything they don't like or instantly understand, you're rejected.>b-but that's unfair yo're not supposed to read it like that!Too bad for you, you got rejected. Why should an agent waste THEIR TIME, which is their WORK TIME mind you, on reading your whole manuscript? What have you done to earn that right? What's that? You wrote it? So did everyone else write theirs. REJECTED.But if that random jumping makes them care? They might go back to the beginning and read a whole chapter. If they don't feel like reading more right away, or maybe it's lunch time or their office hours are over? Rejected. But if they keep reading? That's another chapter where you can fail and get rejected.If they actually read your whole book? Congratulations! That's amazing! Barely 0,002% of manuscripts get this far.This one though, it just isn't right for the current market, so REJECTED.Yeah, sorry. Maybe having a bad title might've saved everyone's precious time.
>>22507345I guess I really get into it on page 19. Its about a neurotic perverted dude w GERD who is obsessed with fantasies . kinda wanted to just start out with the vibe
>>22507368Nigga, I have a feeling I know a little more about publishing and query letters than you do.
>>22507365My point is that my setting is a huge shithole and I simply write what ways it manifests in. Basically what is the line between world building and frustrating the reader?I think it's necessary to the story and world building but I'm concerned I'm laying it too thick
>>22507374Be realistic. It would be nice if people read the first 18 pages, but the reality is no one in 2023 is going to do that. Most people won't make it through 3 seconds of a TikTok without moving on.Do your best work on the first page or two, then get started with the narrative. You can intersperse the remaining schizo shit throughout the rest of the book, American Psycho style if you want. If you're good, a few pages to start is more than enough to set the set the vibe.
>>22507380thank you!!!
>>22507378If your descriptions of the shithole setting are entertaining unto themselves, then they will justify the inclusion. If they're labored purple prose or expository lines to hammer in your point, they have no place in your story. All the usual shit, show don't tell etc. You're better off weaving hints of it into your overall action, rather than outright saying it. People shouldn't just be having a meal, they should be eating grotesque, dirty things. Conversations should take place in seedy places, characters should remark on smells, tastes during conversation. Etc etc
>>22507377Yeah? You're still here so I don't think you've ever gotten published. You're a reject, just like me.
>>22507385I'm actually the ghost of William Faulkner, so the jokes on you, jabroni
First paragraph of my fantasy story:>It is morning for Melnat the wizard, in the pale-domed city of Gyle. The wine goblet, he sees, lies upturned on the floor; his rug, a little wine-splattered. When, righting himself, his feet touch the rug, and he feels the cool of the wine-damp on his soles, it sends a vision rushing up, as when a moth swoops past your eyes, and brushes your face with its wingbeats. He is standing, again, in the lush waxy grass of the perfumed and lanterned crypt gardens. Early evening of the previous night. The first owl is yet to hoot, the woman in the ivy-arched gloom sweet Zebellia. And the seal on his wine - still intact.
>>22507383I guess they're entertaining if you count depressing as entertaining. I wouldn't call it purple prose either because I prefer to get to the fucking point in simple terms and use imagery instead of a thesaurus.
>>22507389Why is it in present tense? Is the whole story in present tense? If so, why? If not, why is this first part in present tense?
>>22507389I do not have schizophrenia so moths do not induce visions in me.Very large amount of words to convey very few things. Wizard. Spilled wine. Woman. Unspilled wine.
>>22507388You sold out to Hollywood
>>22507261Your entry level music taste doesn't scare me!https://youtu.be/3028oDEKZo4?si=dS6XEyX85hix-Of3
I am giving critiques for the next hour. Post em if you've got em. Bring out your dead.
>>22507398>Very large amount of words to convey very few thinghttps://youtu.be/AUFwk1Ibwkc?si=JmSBEVO1ssZJNlSC
>>22507411see>>22507036
>>22507408It's about the exciting movie look not the music or the words. They're noop filler for the payload injection.https://youtu.be/sG5FPnpbF20?si=DYD8X9WAPWv9RQ1W&t=451
>>22507414Why are your sentences so long?> Raised like soldiers from the moment they could walk they were trained not only in the art of combat but in the method and practice of calming and controlling their emotions during moments of extreme stress. >They were taught not to try and suppress their fear and thereby exhilaration and alertness, but to lasso them, mount them, and break them, allowing the harnessing of these emotions that nature and Kah[1] have seen fit to bestow upon the intelligent racesWas there a discount sale on conjunctions at your local supermarket? Reread your work, and break up any sentences that have more than two conjunctions, it's not pleasant to read.They were taught not to try and suppress their fear. Doing that would only dull their senses, senses they needed to stay alive. They were taught to instead lasso them. Mount them. Break their emotions with sheer force. Harnessing the emotions that nature and Kah[1] had seen fit to bestow upon the intelligent races.Reads way better with shorter sentences.I don't know how long your piece is going to be, but I can already tell you're rushing. The first paragraph isn't done, and you've already given me about 5 different worldbuilding plot points. Slow down. Breathe. Choose ONE thing per passage, be it Archivists, Bohein, Kah or Vi and write about it. Slow. Down.
>>22507395Because I started writing it that way. Sometimes you have to operate based on feel.>>22507398It is not saying that moths induce visions. It is comparing the sudden, unsettling arrival of a vision to the unexpected, unnerving passage of a moth across your face.Also, I disagree: it's concise. I'm not just trying to convey 'Spilled wine'. I'm trying to convey a hungover wizard heaving his feet over the bed and onto the damp wine-spill and the sensation triggering a memory of standing in the cool damp grass the night before.
>>22507436>Because I started writing it that way. Sometimes you have to operate based on feel.Great. I'm asking you to consider why you felt that way. Will you keep writing it that way? Will it feel jarring to a reader if you suddenly swap to past tense halfway through a chapter? What is the benefit of starting the story like this, detached from Melnat's interior monologue?
>>22507436>It is not saying that moths induce visionsI guessed that from "as" but that is still the poorest allusion you could have possibly picked.Basically being arty while describing basic shit is a terrible idea.>THE WIZARD STUMBLES HUNG OVER AS SHIT AS LAST NIGHT'S MEMORIES OF THE WOMAN TRICKLE BACK INTO HIS BRAINLess arty? Yeah. More concise and to point too.
>>22507422I love that first paragraph, it's such a perfect filter. Never touching it again
>>22507453If I had to give a post-hoc rationalisation I would say the present tense helps communicate the sense of waking up disoriented and without a clear timeline of what led up to that point. All you have is the present moment, and the few scattered clues immediately around you. I think describing the style as 'detached from Melnat's interior monologue' only makes sense if you consider an interior monologue as the default mode for fiction, and the absence of interior monologue as a kind of privation. Only then would the simpler, tale-telling style ('here's what happened to this guy I know' instead of 'step into the very consciousness of this guy') seem somehow detached or distant. But I would have to think some more about it to weigh up the pros and cons of the different approaches.Anyway, thank you for your interest in my paragraph, Mr Faulkner.>>22507455I agree that it is (maybe unforgivably) arty. I got indulgent.
>>22507453Also, if you're still doing critiques, here is the start of another abandoned fantasy story:>This happened in a far-off inn, at the end of a long day of wet travel and no food.>Really wretched autumn travelling it was. Curse these hill-places, where the paths are too narrow for even a fox, and a hundred hidden bonfires sting your eyes with woodsmoke. >But I had been ordered to these parts, and ordered by authority of the orchard-master. He wanted my report on a new variety: a fine mottled type, and the only thing he had spoken of for two months past -- but you do not care, I am sure, about pears. Only know this: that I was weary, and there by the track was the inn.>Its door was so sunk among the dripping brambles that, had a pale nag in the gloom not neighed out to my horse, I would have ridden right by. I tied her to the same post, and gave a grateful stroke down the nag's mane, and left the pair to their nuzzling.>And sunk still further, down into the earth, was the stony floor of this place when I entered. It was a low, expansive place, like the great tuber-cellars of the fenland farmers. Tuber-like, too, were the faces all round me, deep in their wet leather collars. Dim eyes looked then looked away. I did not feel upon me the spiteful scrutiny one feels in a trading town. They had the indifference born from exhaustion, these men like heaps of leather. Though what they toil at beyond their innumerable bonfires I cannot imagine.>Then came the pink flash of bare feet on stone, and up pattered a woman in an embroidered apron, all spotless. And as she led me further within, below the beams and the hanging herbs, she spoke with the quiet, inner stillness known only to peasant women and forest pools. It unnerves me, this stillness. And there are men who say a peasant woman is a frolicsome, hot-blooded thing.>I asked her, Did they have lamb? They did not, only a sort of hill-fowl, roasted. But it would do. And I seated myself in my nook, very deep now in this strange place, and no one about me. All the dreary day's moisture began to seep from my travelling-coat, my sodden boots, and made rivulets on the floor. I felt lighter by the moment as I expunged this chilly weight.>She brought me my beer -- a porter, very good -- and while I drank I studied the icons that hung there on the walls. There were icons of the limbless martyr and the wasp-stung martyr and others of the familiar sort, but I could not identify the curious species of glossy black wood from which they were carved. This was fine amusement, after a day lost among bracken. And for a moment I thought of writing a few verses on these icons: these 'mournful, lustrous icons', perhaps. But I compose at my best only when replete and well-fed; and really at that moment I was ravenous. For I had not yet received my roast.>Where, in the name of the martyrs, was my roast?
>>22507473Is the goal to filter out people with taste? Because you've nailed that. I know you're going for some CUHRAZY arcane Book of Malazan rip off, but it comes off so amateur
>>22507326Call it "Of mice and men". That sounds like the kind of title that would be published.
>>22507510It's good, probably one of the better things posted in the thread. Nice pace, you get a feel for the narrator even in a few short passages. The only thing to be mindful of is the repeated use of "And" to start your phrases. It's a nice touch of style, but over a longer piece it might loose it's appeal. Once in a while is good, overuse makes it feel gimmicky. All things in moderation etc.
>>22507523Good point about the 'And'. Once you start, it's addictive. It's like putting one of those Mario Kart booster pads at the start of the sentence.
>>22507378Other guy is wrong but only slightly. It is annoying if you keep hammering a point because you are too worried people won't get it. But it doesn't mean you can't bring it up multiple times. The key to making it work is introducing the idea/plot point/detail in a different way each time so it doesn't feel like you're just reminding the audience. If you want to be extra clever, go with the rule of 3's like in comedy. Introduce the idea, recontextualize it so its fresh the second time, then the final time you do it make it surprising.
>>22507539>in a different way each time so it doesn't feel like you're just reminding the audience.Basically what I am doing already. I just hope it doesn't result in "okay I fucking get it" for most.
I want to tell the story from first person POV, written sort of like a memoir. However there are a few important characters that are not always present alongside the main narrator, and I need to show what happens to them as well. I'm not sure how to go about it.I don't want to use first person POV for other characters because that will break the immersion of a memoir of the main character. I don't want to use third person POV because a POV shift like that seems somewhat rough and distracting. I've thought of 2 solutions. The first is to try to somehow shove everything about all the other characters into the prologue and then the rest of the book is the main character's POV. The second is to simply write another book for all these side characters' stories (which are important to the main plot). What do you guys think?
>>22507633Could the important aspects of the side-character stories be told to the main character through direct or indirect dialogue, through things he's heard about what the other characters are up to? That's the Victorian realist novel solution: to have someone sit down and tell you their story for the space of three chapters, like when the monster talks to Victor Frankenstein. It's obviously a break from pure realism (because no one in an actual conversation narrates their life for the span of three unbroken chapters), but it somehow seems excusable. Or they'll have the main narrator character (somehow) overhear and gather enough information to piece together the story of these side-characters, like Marlowe telling the story of Lord Jim, filling in the gaps of his life while they've been apart.
>>22507653Yes, I suppose I could use this kind of writing to remove a few unnecessary POVs, thanks. The problem is that there's this one character who would not be willing to share his past with anyone and the main character isn't even supposed to know about it either. I believe either another book or a second POV is the only solution, I'm just not sure how to do it so that it doesn't interfere with the memoir flavor of the novel.
>>22506902Exactly, the premise got complicated when she became some high-ranking bodyguard.
>>22507742This doesn't really seem like an issue to me, there's tons of stories with characters that appear to have no training but have a split personality that's extremely competent. Depending on your setting there's lots of ways to explain away anything like that
How do I capture the anime aesthetic in my writing? I want my isekai to be really unique.
>>22507975>How do I capture the anime aesthetic in my writing?>I want my isekai to be really unique.These two sentences seem to contradict each other.
>>22508006Not necessarily. Most isekai are not very exciting for anime. There is no Gurren Lagann of isekai.
>>22508008if you cant figure out how then you arent creative enough to make the gurren lagann of isekai
Is there some stigma against switching between omniscient and limited third person depending on the scene?
>>22508096Not that guy. So if anything, I was giving him a suggestion what he can try to do.
>>22507300>There are no rules how long a web serial should beThey are, actually.>I don't plan to be married to this story for the rest of my lifeWho said anything about that? Having it around for a couple years, that's the baseline.>At the rate of 3 chapters a weekNo.Daily.Release a chapter every single day.
>>22506791I can’t speak to the quality of the rest of it, but that last sentence about the whale was decent. I don’t think it’s a bad thing to write through a cinematic lens, can help make things more vicid at times.
>>22508146Not at all. It's a classic move, and can be very effective.
I write texts and force chatGPT to review them for grammatical and punctuation errors, is this animal abuse or should I sleep easy?
>>22507422>Faulkner telling anyone to use shorter sentencesfailed rp
I hate writing scenes without dialogue so much bros. I think my words per hour with pure narrative is like 1/4 what it is when characters are talking.
>>22507510I liked this
Just wrote a small, short fan-story about the universe of Turnip28 - it's sort of like darkest dungeon mixed with vegetables. Anyone care to read? I've decided to do smaller things like this to better understand storytelling, I've got dialogue, prose and characterisation:https://files.catbox.moe/w0a5hn.txt
"Earthling" is such an ugly word but I can't think of anything else that isn't cliche
>>22508390>mud dwellers>soggy pales>water drinkers>live birthers>from the oxygen planet>oxygen breathers>arrogance personifiedanon this is a simple task
>>22508396ok but what if you're writing narration and just need to find a synecdoche for people from Earth that isn't negatively loaded? Other writers sometimes us Terrans or Earthers, but I hate those too.
I feel like I can no longer write compelling prose. I wonder if it is because my libido has collapsed. I tend to write better when I am extremely horny, even if I do not touch upon anything lewd in my writing. Why is this.
>>22506690>showing truth to powerOver 15 (fifteen) holes are in the sun and none of them are outside of the visible orange spectrum but one (1).I pick one of the orange ones anyway and it winds around my first finger but I move it to my middle of my left hand.It's another giraffe, so commonplace now that I am barely obscene about it.Another fucking giraffe.The hole is in its throat and something like around its neck and I feel it there then, the other hand, not mine.Between my thumb and its neighbor fingers I feel the nature of its cling and I rub them together to see if I can sift its interstice.The giraffe dulls its eyes at the feel of a tiny gap and they are winding, these separate pieces, through my fingers and I catch them givingly with my thumb.I put two of my fingers into its eyes and tell them to see, and I mean to see something else.Maybe they do.
>>22508342bumperino, I could use some critique, especially if I forgot to add context anywhere.>>22508417Many of those aren't derogatory, here have some more sanitized terms, just for your pristine baby man eyes:>nail-folk>waterborn>green-planters>finger-people>>22508419then write not compelling prose and get over it, you are not required by anyone to create good things. Your bottom line of quality will always increase so instead on focusing on keeping up the ceeling of your writing, try to make that bottom line better..
>>22508419>I tend to write better when I am extremely hornyI remember this issue coming up in another thread a few weeks ago.It seems that authors fall into two groups: those who write best when horny vs those who can only write under conditions of post-nut clarity.Balzac, for example, was in the former class: https://slate.com/culture/2013/04/balzac-and-sex-how-the-french-novelist-used-masturbation-to-fuel-his-writing-process.html
>>22508421>Another fucking giraffe.get him to burn
>>22506690Girlfriend and I have been doing random prompt contests for a bit to practice our writing. I've enjoyed it a lot and I've been thinking of submitting some work to places. Obviously they're more likely to decline you than accept you regardless but is it worth trying to get into any more popular publications? If not does anyone here have any experience or suggestions? Thanks
>>22508631I suggest you submit it to the thread's scrutiny first.
Guys I think I might have something
>>22508501thats what its doing already
What's it called when a book is written exclussive in dialogue? Trying my hand at it but I think House of Leaves has some partial bits that are like that and JR is mostly all dialogue does it have a stylistic name or is just lumped in as post modern
>>22508162lol no
>>22508655I know I have something, bro
>>22508741interview, cue Hannah Krall "Shielding the Flame"
>>22507121Pretty radical, reminds me of Cobralingus
>>22508741what's with the lack of punctuation
>>22508840Phoneposters will tell you this is good and you should write on a phone.
>>22508840Mccarthy barely uses punctuation I'll be fine and it's more for a stylistic effect than anything
How do u now if written
>>22508744lol don't be lazyrelease a chapter every single day
>>22508888Edit my eightman
this thread is so boringaren't u guys supposed 2 b like entertainers of the mind
>>22508741Henry James wrote The Awkward Age in that style, which he deliberately borrowed from the popular French author and anti-semite Gyp. But as far as I know there's no specific term for it.
>>22508933this thread is supposed to help critique texts and build creative abilities, but people here spend more time accusing each other of being ESL's or asking questions that could be googled in a second.
>>22508342I don't have any specific feedback because I'm too tired to read it critically, but I thought it was pretty good overall and I enjoyed it.
>>22508988Then why are you here?
>>22509080because i honestly and truly belive that with enough effort I will get someone to review my posts and help me improve, since this is the internet and the only thing you can rely on is people knowing what they don't like.
>>22508741A dialogue?Also with mentions of McCarthy ITT I'm surprised no one mentioned Stella Maris, which was dialogue only.
>>22508933I'm busy
>>22509113Fastman is so lucky.
>>22507512>taste is a hivemind
>>22509118I mean she does die in an explosion less than five minutes after he leaves the room
>>22509105I haven't read Stella Maris yet but I'll check it out soon The Passenger was also largely dialogue too I'm also wondering what direction I should take it in once the couple depart maybe have chapters showing how they are both dealing with isolation and sepration while the elements get more and more harsh I wonder if I should just have some weird stuff thrown in to show how their mental degredation is falling apart a little
i am mid 30s and have never written. do i stand a chance? can i find CRITICAL ACCLAIM, even in niche circles?what would /wg/ want to read from some amateur retard?the only thing that matters to me are views/feedback, it can be any format
GIVE ME A PROMPTre,>>22509183
>>22508988this thread is whatever you make it, baby.it is now about WRITING LITRPG
>>22509183>>22509189What is the most upset you have ever been?What's some shit you remember from your childhood that literally doesn't exist anymore?Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?
>>22509197The ogre keeled over and I finally caught my breath. Covered in ogre blood I looked at his inventory, every slot was filled with potions and scrolls except one. Could it be? Yes! Finally a +3 scimitar, now I have two and can dual wield like Drizzt. Due to its magical nature I can add +3 to each attack roll using this weapon.
>>22509202these at least got me thinking. thanks>>22509218what happens next? please reduce any growth to heavy exposition (stat screens) so i can continue to cum without interruption
>>22509183I think you'll be lacking in writing experience but might have an edge in actual life experience.Writing experience comes as you write. Life experience comes as you suffer. Or very rarely, when you're happy.
>>22508649That sounds like a terrible Idea. I'm sure people here would be critical of it, but I'm not putting anything I'd ever submit on 4chan lmfao
redpill me on self-publishing
>>22509270a. it's your only optionb. you can sell your own books
>>22509299say it wasn't your only option and you could get a publisher, would you take it?
>>22509270marketing is actually really cheap and AI image generation is perfect for it because all it needs to do is capture the eye, so all you need to do is find a good free font and maybe toss a fiverr graphic designer a few bucks to make the layout look professional
>>22509270there is no redpill, it really depends on your country and whether it's populace is old or young.Older populace favors popular publishers while young self-published authors. The rest is just cultural and economical funnies.
>>22509252They’d be critical, sure, but they’re not capable of constructive criticism.
>>22509307AI really is the future, man, humans still have to shape it but it takes the technical work out of the equation
>>22507150My brother in christ just publish it under a disposable pen name.
>>22509337>>22509307here have a you, because you worked hard for it
>>22509382embrace AI and get with it, anon
>>22509322Even if I shit on someone's stuff I try to give some ideas how to improve it.I very rarely just shit on a thing without giving improvement feedback. Usually when I'm replying to blatant troll posts/0 effort writing.If you don't bother to spellcheck your shit, fix typos and add at least basic punctuation, I won't bother to give you real feedback. Simple as.If I like a thing, I'll say so, and maybe give some ideas what could make it better.Worst case is when I don't think the thing is bad, but don't think it's good either. Essentially so mediocre I have no comment - truly the goldilock of awful place to be in.
>>22509390what's your opinion on writing edited by AI
>>22509393Terrible and soulless. I'd prefer even the most bungled and fucked up editing by a human over soulless cleverbot 2.0.It's 100% fine to get inspiration from AI, it's fine to use AI art for covers (but please for fuck's sake try something that doesn't look AI-generated), it's fine to maybe prompt random shit and look for inspiration there - but write it by hand.Do NOT let a faggot robot write your shit. I don't care how "good" it is. I want a story told by a human with a human outlook filtered through human experiences. Telling a "good" story through AI is like fucking McDonalds.
>>22509407>don't let a faggot robot write for yousame with making art lol
>>22509407this was edited by AI, I truly believe it makes a very enjoyable read that I couldn't even begin to touch by hand
>>22506690I want to erase everything I write, I have no faith in what I wrote, it all looks like shit
>>22509183well it's not like anybody is going to see your age published with the bookyou'll stand as much of a chance as any other first time writer and given enough time you can become a good one, it's a skill you develop like any other
>>22509183Chuck Palanhiuk took one writing workshop in his 30s while working at a factory and got a cult following and sold millions after
>>22509465it's more that im down like 15 years exp. but i think its safe to assume that it's not 15 years linear growth for most
Originally started writing my manuscript as a singular first person PoV.I realized at some point I needed to introduce a second PoV character for a variety of important reasons.I'm debating between writing the second character in first person as well, with labeled chapter headings and a distinct voice, or if I should write the second character in third person. I'm leaning towards the former, as I think a 1st to 3rd switch would be much more jarring. What do you guys recommend?For context, each character would be confined to their own, separate, distinct chapters and would not interact with one another, so there would be no mid-scene PoV swaps or anything like that.
if you want to make any money your MC has to be female
>>22509530what If I have two main characters and one of them, the dexterous one, is female while the man is cunning?
>>22509529>I'm leaning towards the former, as I think a 1st to 3rd switch would be much more jarring.I agree with this.
>>22506965Why not read some of the "Look Inside" portions on Amazon, and make your own decision? You're not a sheep, are you?
>>22506999>>22507012More of a directed graph, sometimes with cycles, using weights to simulate fuzzy logic, but whatever...4channers can't be expected to understand things.
>>22507045Yes; little more than insecure, salty gatekeeping.
>>22509655it's funny because you don't realize you're in the middle of the iq chart meme. the more you know about how subnetworks tend to function, the more like if/else diagrams they look. especially true with ff nets but also true with transformers.
>>22507368Here's an agent, rejecting manuscripts based on the cover letter:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aduzco1VJZE
>>22507764I still don't think it's going to work. Part of the problem is I didn't want her to outshine the male protagonist, part of the problem was that any legal issues (assassinations, thievery, etc.) to get in the way of her eventual turning-good, and a bunch of other issues.A lot of the novel is in flux right now anyway.
>>22507408I see your prog rock, and raise you space rock!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwuSfCz_BPY
>>22509669>2023>the era of complete independence>not self-publishingif publishers want your work let them come to YOU
>>22508933Anyone who enjoys reading fiction and eating sausages should never watch either one being made.
>>22509669>Here's an agent, rejecting manuscripts based on the cover letter:i don't think this is a problem. there are infinite books to go through. know your audience, network, etc.it's not some quantifiable meritocracy anyway
>>22508851>Mccarthy barely uses punctuation I'll be fine and it's more for a stylistic effect than anythingMcCarthy also writes out "he said" and structured paragraphs so you can tell where the dialogue is. This is just a wrong screenplay.
>>22509687I see your chaos, and raise you order!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdIzA1SuC0
>>22509235I looked around the sausage factory. There were no sausages. I found some rotting meat clearly meant for the production line but not even a single fully formed sausage. Still I consumed every last bite of that rotten meat because despite causing poison damage it still restored my hunger bar meaning I would regain those lost hitpoints later. This did not go as planned and as my health bar dipped below 10 hitpoints I was engaged in battle by a level 3 sausage goblin, his turgid member throbbing from anticipation, reminiscent of a sausage that is throbbing from anticipation."What is this some kind of *Sausage Factory?" I said as I raised my dual scimitars in a cool way like in the movie Gladiator if they had dual scimitars in that movie which they should have and then I defeated the goblin in battle. To my surprise this was enough experience to trigger a level up and I could choose a new feat.*(trademarked, patent pending, do not steal)
>>22509419I've got no clue if this is really AI, but it's stilted and definitely nothing special about this
>>22510022lol
>>22510022it's AI-assisted, aka I write the initial prose and then feed it into AI for editing; it still holds my context and direction so it reads like it's written by a humanI'm not trying to write the next great american novel here, I just want to write exciting thrillers, horror and romance and get good enough at this to self-publish a novel every seasonI'm all about the story & characters, writing is my weakness that AI solves, and does it quite elegantly as of today with tomorrow only getting better
>>2250991445 seconds, and I could tell that was Philip Glass. LOL
>>22510070I have tried this but the result always ends up off. Something makes it feel artificial. Too perfect - yk? I think GPT is going to do to writing what pictures did to art.
>>22507512No, my goal is to filter out (you) and it worked
>>22508168Curious, what makes you say the last sentence is better than the others?
>>22506690A story idea occurred to me while I was on a run this afternoon. The main character is a down on his luck guy in his late twenties stuck at a dead end job. He ends up having to work a shift the night of his 30th birthday which triggers a mini existential crisis. He gets hammered looking back on his life so far with only painful regret and nostalgia. In the dead of night he's approached by a mysterious entity that offers him a second chance at life. The entity seemingly sends his mind back in time to the start of high school. After making sure to rebefriend all of his old high school pals he does the typical time travel things of trying to change things for the better. Taking more risks, getting into crypto, tying to prevent his parents future divorce, etc. As time goes on however, he would start noticing small discrepancies. Things like his school being closer to his house than he remembered, or meeting people he could have sworn never went to his school. At first he chalks it up to him misremembering certain details or minor alterations his making to the timeline. But then he finds himself roped into a local murder case and other assorted mystery hijinks. He plays along with it, using his future knowledge and additional ten plus years of life experience where he can. But then his life rapidly jumps the shark. The mysteries he's wrapped up in take on an undoubtedly supernatural element. When he shares his secret with his girlfriend (someone he doesn't remember from the original timeline) not only does she believe him, but she reveals that she's actually an exiled Fey Princes. Aliens are real and they turn his truck into a Transformer. Local mysteries unfold into global conspiracies. At this point, he's full accepted that he's been sent to a parallel universe where magic and aliens are real, but again he embraces it, because why the fuck not? Finally, after four years of adventures he goes to sleep the night of his graduation and wakes up the next morning on the first day of high school again. Once again, using his foreknowledge, he's able to speedrun making friends, getting the girl, solving the mysteries and saving the world. And again after four years he wakes up and has to do it all again. After countless cycles, he manages to contact the entity again. He discovers that it's actually a higher dimensional writer that's using him as main character in a story. Because his actions are not controlled by the entity, he is an X factor that keeps readers engaged. However, the entity is terrified to write anything other than a high school settling with teen characters. In a final bit of dramatic irony, the man that started this journey out of regret must help a god-like being to learn to move on. There's definitely some potential late 2000s/early 2010s nostalgia bait for arguably the last era to have any form of zeitgeist, but it could come off as too wish fulfillment bait/meta. Is this an idea worth pursuing?
>>22509914I see your hymn opera and raise you peking opera https://youtu.be/EmHYhDXz-Zs?si=Lc_9DK8xGRubexZ_
>>22510201Figured you were going for a Groundhog Day thing. Sounds like a Rick and Morty episode. I think they literally did both these things on Rick and Morty. >groundhog day teen>ironic metacommentary on hack writers That being said I stole a screenplay idea from Rick and Morty once and it won first place at an indie film festival.
>>22510171I know what you mean, but honestly it's just imposter syndrome kicking in... it's still your story and direction.It's like you become a movie director and have AI doing the labor and acting, but you still have to direct everyone into doing their job, and sometimes you got to get hands onit's still extremely hard to write a full novel, nothing has gotten easier, it's just the words will be much easier on the eyes when it's finished and you will naturally improve as you goAI editing is only as good as the writing you give it
>>22510201Be sure to check out "Typewriter In The Sky" by L. Ron Hubbard...make sure you're doing something that hasn't been done already.
>>22510266>make sure you're doing something that hasn't been done alreadyName one idea you consider original and I'll inform you where it was stolen from.
>>22509530Most of my screen writings have female protagonists but most of my literary writings have male protagonists. Guess why.
>>22510275because you like the visual of women but the mind of men?
>>22510284No, of course not. It's called a coincidence you sexist pig.
>>22510287ya anyway my dick ain't gonna suck itself
>>22510290You could stick it up your own, asshole!
>>22510256Yeah, the whole "Guy gets to relive high school" trope is definitely not a new concept. I was mostly reflecting on web comics of the era and thinking of a premise I could use to recreate that unabashed kitchen sink of slice of life and high science-fantasy. The kind of story telling you'd see unfold was really rough around the edges, but it felt like an honest effort from the authors to explore whatever ideas they thought were cool while expanding their own skills.
>>22510087I see your unintelligible ching chongese and raise you a lecture about war in broken pidgin english.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjuLnfrv_X4
>>22510269God torments a highly intelligent misfit to the point where he's motivated to figure out how to uncreate existence, and does so, destroying God as well as everything else.
>>22510336Fenrir among others.
>>22510336Tenet was not an original film.
>>22510201I'd read something like this, an idea you could also play with is have this writer character also have a viewpoint so the reader knows his struggles and it's more cathartic when the MC helps him out of his funk, then have the reveal that the writer is "real" while your MC isn't
writing a novel is just about connecting short stories (chapters) together a dozen times
>>22510376That's why I'm writing a story with a framing narrative and a bunch of stories told by the people in the framing narrative.
It's okay for McCarthy not to use quotation marks because... just because, ok??
>>22510434Famous writers pull shit like this all the time but here everybody freaks out if anyone does anything remotely unusual
>chapter 10 word count: 230>chapter 11: 9Gonna shoot for 5000 words for chapter 12.
>>22510434To begin with English is stupid for having only quotations marks. In other languages quotations marks are for thoughts and dashes are for speech.
>>22510376>thing is just smaller things put togetherrevelation of the century
>>22510376Except short stories have definitive endings, chapters usually don't
>>22510627the end of every chapter should be a cliff hanger
>>22507975>How do I capture the anime aesthetic in my writing?have you never read a LN in your lifea WN from Asia?anything?
>>22508445For me, I can only feel good when I've deliberately made myself horny, and then crushed my libido through writing, leaving me feeling sexually frustrated.
>writing a novel is justshut the fuck up child
>writing a novel is unjust
>writing a novel is JUSTfmsuf
>be actor>director puts this in front of youHow do you respond?
>>22510670a bigger house hovers above the current house[redacted male] crashing the house... WITH NO SURVIVORS
>>22510679>>22510679>>22510679>>22510679
>>22509419>I couldn't even begin to touch by handSounds like a you problem.Luckily there's one easy fix. https://youtu.be/nA-UBVKQFM0?si=BLIyHMgBPWkbebnn
>>22510626Sounds like a horrible place to be. I want in, too.
>>22509419>I truly believe it makes a very enjoyable read that I couldn't even begin to touch by handif this the kind of person who praises AI then phew, my future as a writer isn't dead yet
>>22509113Redacting stuff is my thing. You stole my idea.
>>22509148>>22509113You do way too much directing on the page. Don't write things like emotional cues. It might work on inexperienced readers but anyone who understands film in a collaborative capacity can immediately tell your stuff is amateurish. Doesn't help that there's zero dialogue so this is basically the screenplay equivalent of a wall of text.
>>22510670>fold a paper plane>throw it between the director's eyes>moonwalk out of the room
>>22510499>In other languagesHow many can you read?
>>22508741I like the idea of a dialogue-only book but I think you should definitely use punctuation. It adds so much characterization to dialogue that this text is just missing.
>>22510376You can easily identify authors who do this and no, the result is not a novel, it's a collection of short stories and reads as such.
>>22510717Ow :'(
>>22510670To clarify, only the stuff in italics is actual dialogue. The rest is for improvisation.
>>22510725who are you trying to impress? if you want to sell books you have to make them interesting, and chapters structured as self-contained narratives is a good way to turn pages
>>22509341Of course I'm using a pen name. But I've posted multiple works under that pen name already, so a major flop now practically means disavowing my writing history so far, and isn't that different from messing up under my real name. And starting over from scratch is too tiresome.
>>22510725This but it's not necessarily a negative. Twain wrote like this.
>>22510734>if you want to sell books And we've already ceased to discuss novels. Don't (you) me, you dumb weeb.
>>22510739jesus you're unpleasant, why are you partaking in an only-empathetic activity such as writing?
>>22510742I strongly empathise with your parents right now.
>>22510734But there's a difference between a book of self-contained narratives and a book of narratives that together form a larger plot. For example, you could pick any random chapter of Tom Sawyer to read and it'll be it's own little story. But if you pick up Lord of the Rings and open to a random chapter it won't make sense and leave you wanting more. >>22510634If the last chapter is the conclusion of the story then no.
>>22510745autism
>>22510742You're the one who brought in a fallacious appeal to population argument
>>22510750i don't even know what that meansyou guys realize the market for books is women and you are acting really stupid right now
>>22510751The market doesn't know what it wants until it has it.
>>22510753the market wants interesting stories with compelling characters that is fun to read chapter to chapterentertainment is what they call it
>>22510759>interesting stories with compelling characters that is fun to readEasy to write, difficult to realize.
>>22510765well no, writing a coherent novel is still a feat most of humanity will never experience, neverminded how entertaining it isit's fucking hard, really fucking hard
>>22510770>he thinks making up a bunch of silly rules for what a book should be will help his odds
for whatever reason my mind often gravitates towards categorizing everything and writing out long lists of categorized things
>>22510772they spend 200 million dollars to make a 2 hour of your time blockbuster, I'm asking someone to read my novel for 6-8 hours that I wrote for freethe competition is fierce
God, you can just tell some of the posters here never fucking read. Everything they write just drips with their stupidity.
>>22510780When your goal as a creative is to make money your works become like lottery tickets. Most of those tickets will not be winners. Maybe none of them will. You may begin to resent the work after repeated failures. But if your goal isn't to manufacture a winning lottery ticket and is simply to write something good, your outlook becomes much brighter and I think your work improves, too.
>>22510781"reading is fucking boring" - average zoomerI write for those people, that is my audience
>>22510794You could choose to categorize your audience. You could also choose not to.
I don't really know what to make of this. It's by a friend.
>>22510793my primary goal is to write something I want to readas long as I'm enjoying reading my writing, then I've succeeded, then I'm proud of my workdo what you love and the money will come
>>22510797you have to know your audience, who's going to be exposed to your book? who actually reads bookswomen and teenswith men you're competing with video games, movies, tv, anime, porn, social media... that's a battle you're just not gonna win, dude's don't read anymore and when they try they go for non-fiction shit in hopes to better their lives
>>22510810>dude'sspoken like a true literary agent
>>22510820you're not gonna get a job pretending to be grammarly
uhh witin books is just combinin a buncha showt stowies
>>22510862
>>22510891i like to compartmentalize-- or like, make little rules for things because nuance is overwhelming. it's not really something for an aspiring author desuwhy waste time say lot word when few word do trick
>>22510898you're boring and annoying, you take everything literally word for word unable to express abstract thought
>>22510901nice try weeb, i already shit on your little autistic habit of trying to simplify things that adults can otherwise handle. your weak projection means nothing to me.
>>22510904you can simplify everything if you're smart enough, it's called pattern recognition
i think its zoomer youtube brain5 tips authors don't want you to know: they aren't actually writing books, just a series of short stories (how to write like mark twain)
>>22510910it is zoomer brain, that's who you're writing for dude, that's where the money isnobody is gonna read boring shit
>>22510907advanced pattern recognition: character development -> videogame stat screen(authors hate this 1 tricK)
>>22510914the essence of show don't tell is built into character action, not pages of "development"
>>22510921how am i supposed to know if the character has grown without the number going up?>>22510911to be real with you. i have accepted this
>>22510927define by scenes, not pages; give your character(s) interesting things to do, put them into drama, and let them play amongst themselvesan easy rule of thumb: if you're entertained, the reader is entertainedif you have to slog through page after page of low-stakes development then you haven't entertained yourself
What if you want to write but you're under a regime that will kill you or at the very least imprison you for it, asking for a friend and no it's not about cunny
>>22511120Then you consider if what you want to write is being worth staking your life on, much like many of the writers in similar situations in history considered. If it's not, then go do something else. If it is, then make peace with death.
I'm going to start a new book today. Send me your energy! You know you're not using it for anything!
>>22510358Fenrir was a god-spawn, not a person.>>22510367Tenet was an attack from the future, not a person driven mad by God.
>>22510698And you stole it from SCP, who stole it from somewhere else. Face it...you're unoriginal and boring.
>>22511370Actually I stole it from the interrogation of Omah Khadr
>just got the idea to adapt Chen Shimei and Qin Xianglian into a drama film with a modern western settingfeelsgoodman
>>22506829Dunno never fucked
the man put his penis into the woman’s butthole.
>>22511731Show, don't tell
>>22510698>Date modified: Sep 6, 2023I stole it two weeks ago>>22510705You forgot:>transitions>camera movement>costume details>hard-to-find accents>descriptions of visual effects>descriptions of continuity errors>insulting the characters for their decisions that I made>insulting the readerI do actually know better but this script is one long shitpost and I've been writing it with total certainty that it will never be filmed
Tone down the shitposting euroids
>>22511366>Fenrir was a god-spawn, not a person.He is a person, so is the devil who also fits the trope.
Could an amnesiac write a memoir?
>>22510197I don't know, something about it seemed more vivid to me on a first read, particularly the sliding back down part. I will say, checking it again the two uses of "up" did feel slightly awkward.
>>22511356Send you my post coffee energy bro, good luck!
I was hoping to get some feedback on this intro to a short story I'm writing, if anyone has any. For context, the story is mostly dialogue and I'm trying to set the scene before starting into it:
>>22512041>bounty killerwhy is the guy alive if she’s a bounty killer? you just didn’t want to call her a “bounty hunter” because you wanted to sound unique, I suppose, but it doesn’t make sense for an assassin to have a prisoner right?
>>22512041Before resting for the night I constructed a multi story apartment building out of sausages using the overlapping split stack technique. Two distinct piles of extra sausages were stacked in pyramids 45 degrees from the sausage chimney. I brushed the sausages with my long fingertips as though the hundreds of sausages tossed aside were hot to touch."This was a bad sausage job" I said out loud.
>>22512054It's a reference to old Spaghetti Westerns, but I've been going back and forth about adding them myself.>>22512083Lol, was trying to get across the idea that she's very thorough and methodical, and paint a more vivid picture of the scene, though, might not have the skills to pull it off. Could you tell what was going on with the fire or did it just sound like a jumble of descriptions?
>>22512145It appeared jumbled as I casually read it here but it might work fine in context. I don't really know.
what might it mean if i forgot the word 'prompt' for a good 15 seconds?also, 1 prompt please
>>22511834I came up with that idea over two months ago so clearly you used telepathy. And I only skimmed what you posted because yes, it's obviously a shitpost.
>>22511860>pet peeve for repeating words in a sentence/paragraph I'm glad I got over this bit of amateurish paranoia
>>22512263Come up with a "Groundhog Day" style story (a character has to repeat the same minute/day/year over and over)
>>22512316ok, ill work with that. thanks
>>22512312Yeah may be off base here. Obviously, if something sounds good to you then trust your instincts and go for it.
>>22512312>amateurish paranoiano, it definitely is a real thing
>>22512377i think this is good. this is like finding your 'voice'; but, it doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing. some people (me) have a less appealing default prose
>>22512263>1 prompt pleasemasterpiece, best quality, absurdres, highres, 1girl, large breasts, wide hips, looking at viewer
>>22512435funny.. as the anon that initially asked for the prompt, i am fucking around in /sdg/ as well.here's your curated generation
>>22512497you, much like me, overdosed on proompting and forgot the original meaning brieflyI prescribe a break from AI for several months, that should help you recover your faculties
>>22510734>self-contained narratives is a good way to turn pagesNot really. You turn pages and go to the next chapt because the story keeps going. A novel weaves multiple storylines across all the chapters of the book. And it's very difficult to write for this reason.A series of short stories is a different thing altogether. A novel is at least an order of magnitude more difficult to write.
>>22512501i'm actually just coming back from a long break, and not usually generating coomer stuff; though i will gladly take an excuse to generate somethe prompt i ask for here is just to practice writing a little each day
>>22512508correct. a series of short stories actually makes you want to put the book down as the end of a chapter feels like and end, whereas the end of a chapter in a full-on novel feels more like the commercial break in a tv show that makes you feel like you can’t wait to see how the unresolved thing from the end of the last chapter gets resolved, thereby compelling you to turn the page
So. I am a fucking retard. Just realized that somehow I have been editing two separate drafts of my manuscript. I don't know when the files got split or how I didn't notice before now. But half my edits are on one file and half on the other. How fucking irritating.
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>>22510799>It's by a friend.Makes sense. It's too good for this thread. It definitely feels like amateur writing, but it's as exuberant and individual as I always hope the amateur writing I read online will be, yet rarely is.
>>22509529I recommend not being a bitch and pussying out of your narrative choice of first person.I can give you my short story written in first person if you want to see how I did it. It was a terrible experience and I don't want to do it again.
>>22509530I have two main characters and one of them is female.Does that count?I swear, my writing would be really appealing to women despite not being intentionally written as so.
>>22510907>pic relatedsauce?