Writefag Writing Society

I haven't done any writing today but thanks for reminding me. I'm gonna torn to bits in workshop Friday.

>>80383894
OP here. I'm thinking about attending a workshop myself.

>>80383914
I recommend it. Having people around really forces you to get off your ass (or on your ass rather) and write.

>>80383365
>You've disappointed Grant Morrison
Grant has consistently disappointed me with his modern work; make me a macro.

>What are you writing?
It's sort of a Super Sentai love letter/pastiche. At least, that's the idea. It's really kind of an amalgamation between Ender's Game and American Idol.
>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
Ha. You're funny.
>How many words did you write today?
About a thousand, but it's an off day.
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
I feel like I'm the worst possible person to judge that, but I like to think I'm amazing at character and dialogue, but I know I suck at general structure.
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
Depends on what I'm writing, and what mood I want to portray. The last story I wrote was about a pop music idol, and there was a SHIT-TON of J and K pop going on then. Right now, for this story, it's just a lot of generally defiant teenage angst style crap. Simple Plan, Evanescence, Linkin Park, that kind of garbage.
>Your advice for struggling writers?
The best piece of advice I ever got was from a Pixar documentary, and it was "Get it wrong as fast as you can" What slows a lot of writers down is the thought that what they're writing isn't good enough, or up to their standards. That can't stop you. Keep going. Even if you KNOW it sucks and it's not what you want, just power through it. Multiple drafts exist for a reason.

>>80384588
Sweet, thanks for the advice.
>>80388057
Sounds interesting!

>>80383365
Sent a BoJack spec to the Nickelodeon Writing Program last week, next up I'm polishing a half-hour animated pilot to submit to the Blacklist by the end of the month.

Then, I want to complete my animated feature screenplay and polish that before the Nicholl deadline. Lots to get done, little time to do it in.

>>80383365
>>What are you writing?
Porn. Milfs/cougars lusting after guys half their ages.
>How many words did you write today?
None today
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
I'm a bit of a control freak so I don't know how good I am with an artist
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
No
>Your advice for struggling writers?
A struggling writer is literally me.

>>80383365
Fan film following The Question and The Riddler during the latter's reformation following Hush. It takes place in a Gotham where all the classic villains and their power structures are being shook up, and there's a murder that they're investigating that leads to a wider plot to completely overhaul Gotham City.

It's four parts, ten minutes an "episode" and I've been writing it on and off for years when I have nothing else to write.

I have two pieces of original prose, two poems, and an essay on Ancient Greek Philosophy due in the next week, and this is what I'm writing. Why can't I come up with an original idea to save my life?

>>80390528
>Porn. Milfs/cougars lusting after guys half their ages.
That is my fetish.

lately I haven't written anything,
I just feel demotivated
my writing is shit

>>80390759
Mine too. And I wanted to make a story involving it instead of just porn.

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>>80383365
Well excuse me if I don't feel the need to saturate my writing with inane meta-textual symbolism. Some of us just want to tell a story, Grant.

Guys, I have a question.
I want to write comics. However, my art skills are awful. And don't give me that One Punch Man talk, this guy had a talent even when he was doodling, I draw like a kid with cranyons.
I have no money to hire an artist, I tried to work overborard to earn more money and it failed, I'm in shit financial position, so I can forget of hiring an artist.
My question is...Is it possible to make a good comcis with sprites? How much work would it be? They seem very, very limited in what you can show with them, so I'm recullant, but at this point it feels like a better chocie than a)not writing at all or b) writing and then ruining all script with shitty excuse of an art

>>80390876
if you don't put those symbols in intentionally, you'll just put them in accidentally

may as well keep both hands on the wheel

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i want to write a mike wood styled comic about how awful capshit is

>>80390924
That's rape-y as fuck.

>>80383365
>>What are you writing?
My very first comic book script ever. I only halfway know what I'm doing!
>>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
Shit man, I don't even know. I don't know if I will meet my quota either. I'm going to try to put as much work into this issue as I can.
>>How many words did you write today?
I'm just getting started.
>>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
I want to say dialogue and characterization.
>>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
Sometimes and it depends on the type of story. Right now I'm listening to The Go! Team.
>>Your advice for struggling writers?
Shit, nigga. I don't even know.

>>80391025
Is it?

>>80390852
What's the story?

>>80391370
Slice of life, I suppose. There's this little town with horny milfs and cougars and they lust after the young guys in town. Some fall for the shy guys, others for the obnoxious loud jock types. Some are just seeking sex out of them while others are interested in a romantic relationship.

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>writing a cartoon

Writing is something I want to do but between work and moving out I have little time. The work I have been doing is a series of dimensional quests that put my OC hough various cartoons/anime universes trying to correct anomalies and locate artifacts from his dimension that were dispersed among the various places. Such examples have been Panty and Stocking, MLAATR, Black Lagoon to name a few. There are also a few other worlds that will be ventured from games and fiction but so far I've been stuck on a few aforementioned places.

I try to make it that my OC works with the bad guys or any force against he protagonist of the series. It's quite fun and I tend to enjoy it.

>>80383365
>What are you writing?

>Pink Elephants in Red Worlds
It's basically George Orwell's famous Essay, Shooting an Elephant, turned into a faux-biographical Sci-fi story about a man who's job is overseeing the colonization of planets for the Great Empire and how, some times, the things we feel we rule actually rule us.

The story is told in a very episodic fashion without a central threat or villain and is mostly comedic, but switches gears after a while to something more dramatic.

The story starts when the MC is sent a message from his mother while out on a job. The message says his mother has found him a wife and that he needs to return home as soon as possible. So he does and marries the girl, who (for his luck) turns out to be a sweet if not a little too innocent girl. As tradition dictates, the MC begins to take his wife on his missions and she begins to change his attitude about his job, making him treat alien races in a more humane fashion for exemple.

>What are you writing?

It's transformed from a weird-ish short to what seems to be a feature-length script about how the disenfranchised youth and the empowered elders interact with a large city, and the fallout from that.

>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?

Bare minimum quota is something like a page. I met it yesterday. On good days, I write a lot more than that.

>How many words did you write today?

Nothing so far. But it's early.

>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?

Strengths: able to create decent dialogue when I put my mind to it; usually have good flow between scenes; always aware of how the importance of "subtleties" (importance of "camera" angles in cinema/comics; how physical cues can say a lot more than dialogue; etc. etc.)
Weaknesses: unwillingness to follow act structures; bad at coming up with eyecatching plots; very unexperienced in high-concept writing

>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?

It's weird. I've noticed that my productivity increases with music, but I still hate listening to anything when I'm writing. I feel like it has too much effect on what I'm creating.

>Your advice for struggling writers?

This is something that I have to remind myself of (and I should really put it as a sticky-note or something so I always see it):

Everything you write is an experiment. The important thing is not *what* you write, but what you can learn from it.

>What are you writing?
a novel, its about a young man branded by A god to become his champion gladiator/hero. Every generation a champion is marked. After he gets his body guards cause he has never been in a fight his life, off they go to quest. He's told that this a great honor, he is hero, he is satan, different people hate him, and different people love him. Some people have no idea who he is. And he has to defeat the other guy, a guy who was marked by another god. They are supposed to fight and see who the better champion is. And the big resolution is the two men go. "Why are we doing this again? I don't really hate you." That is a real half assed summary of it but whateva.
>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
I don't have a daily quota in place sadly, but I try and open up the laptop and go in everyday.
>How many words did you write today?
0, but I write late at night not in the morning.
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
Being as objective as possible, I think I write good dialogue and have some neat ideas. My big weakness seems to be filling the skeleton of my ideas with good substance. I can think of a beginning and ending, but the middle is what will kill me.
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
For action scenes I listen to rock, Metallica, MGSR soundtrack. somber stuff I listen to Some Trance music. For Light fun action I put on upbeat jazz. Different genres for different emotions or scenes.
>Your advice for struggling writers?
Everyone seems to struggle and no one really knows what they are doing. Its normal.

>>80383365
What am I writing? It's a story about a 20 year old man getting transported to a different world because he went and bought a story book for his niece. Wacky adventures await the man as he gets raped by girls for being such a slut because he talked to them.

>What are you writing?
a sort of sequel to mark millers Wanted but not really.
the basics are still there, supervillains won, erased the super heroes form reality and made it so no new supers could be made with out their say so, they rule from the shadows for a bit but then civil war erupts over whether to began ruling openly or to continue as they are. in the fighting the device that kept new superpowers from forming breaks and everyone who can fix it is either dead or doesn't care.
now a new generation of supers is born with no knowledge of how the world really works or who really rules it. some turn to crime others become heroes, but all shall know the fires of war.
>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
my quota is to try and write something and no I haven't met it.
>How many words did you write today?
big fat zero.
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
my strength is coming up with how different powers work against each other or how they can be used creatively with my biggest weakness being procrastination and spelling.
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
haven't really tried. might do that that if I ever get to a fight scene.
>Your advice for struggling writers?
don't be afraid to think outside the box or to put your own twist on a familiar story.

bump for no one reading my shit

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>>80383365
>What are you writing?
the story of a boy that falls in love with a girl
unable to confess his feeling he is given a deus ex machina cellphone with the girl number

nah, not really, actually im writing a story of a girl with a normal life and how her world went to shit in a single day, and her struggles to get her life, emotions and will to live back on tracks, all this while been part of a vampire hunter organization and having to deal with other paranormal

>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
as much as i can, just write a little everyday so it becomes a habit

>How many words did you write today?
like 10, but im just starting

>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
my biggest problem is always starting the first chapter, i just have a little summary of it, but have no idea how to begin it
also some of my "best" characters are all female, no idea why, they just come out so easily
not sure what my strength is, maybe writting or describing action scenes or the ton of lore i make for every story

>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
anything from coldplay, but most of the time i just have some lego review or creepypasta reading on the background

>Your advice for struggling writers?
make it a habit first, write as much as you can every day, it will become easier
also pic related

grant a shit

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>>80390918
well depending on what you are writing, the answer is yes and now

sure it will look something like this
but its a start and maybe some people will like it

>>80393040
link or pastebin pls only if you want obviously
it sound neat

>>80383365
>What are you writing?
My newest masterpiece I started today, a stupid Judge Dredd/ Punisher crossover fan-fiction for some stupid fun.
>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
Don't have one.
>How many words did you write today?
2k, but I'm not done for today.
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
I'm not sure about my strenghts, I think picturing natural scenes in my head is one. My english grammar sucks, but it's my third language to be fair. I also tend to over think shit before I put it down, which tends to lead into procrastination.
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
No.
>Your advice for struggling writers?
Just the classic, write. It's the best way to learn.

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Got this idea for a story, details are as follows
>this new, other-worldly super mineral is discovered in the West Andes
>samples of various sizes and quantities are brought back to America for experimentation
>a particular University is given government funding to do said experimentation
>The University's dean has employed his own son as a handimen when he's not attending school in order for him to gain personal experience and work ethic
>The son stumbles into the lab where the experimentation is being held
>accidentally receives a concentrated blast of the mineral that permanently alters his body's physical and structural make-up
>Half of him is pure energy, the other a infinitely malleable substance
>in order to live, he's given a special body suit that can mimic his former face, along with being able to properly utilize his newfound powers

Obviously this shit was heavily inspired by early Marvel and Kirby, so apologizes for any plagiarization

>>80383365
>What are you writing?
A superhero series set in an alternate 1990s called "Ballpoint". In this world, superheroes exist, the ones born with powers are known as "The Pure", those born without are known as "The Humdrum", but those who gain there powers later in life are known as "The Neo". By the 1990s, vigilantism is outlawed but government registered several heroes still patrol the streets still do it. But there are other heroes who roam the streets unregistered, including the main protagonist, Donald Drummond AKA Ballpoint.

Instead of doing what OP says, I'm just going to give you fact files on some of the cast.

Donald Drummond/Ballpoint: Donald is a university professor who teaches English, a kind man and pure hero who has the ability to manipulate ink in tattoos and in pens, he can place a small speck of ink into anyone's body and control at will. He also has a mystical dragon tattoo that moves about his body.

Sarah Sumner/Aesthetic: Sarah is a friend and love interest of Donald's and a Neo hero who has the ability to shapeshift, but she's done it so much that she's forgotten her "true face". Due to the fact that the government believes she is dead and erased most traces of her existence, she seeks to find her true face so she can live happily.

Franklin Sands/The Shard: Frank is a former friend of Donald's but became his rival ever since he registered for the government. He is a Pure hero who has the ability to solidify objects for a certain period of time.

Albert Carnegie/Smokey: Albert Carnegie is a Pure villain who has the ability to manipulate fire and smoke. Formerly a Shakespearean trained actor and playwright, Albert discovered his powers after having a cigarette and is a formidable enemy to the government and Donald.

Nathaniel Lasker/The Golem: Nathaniel is a Neo villain who was transformed into a walking stone entity. He is a crime boss of a Jewish gang and is shun upon by the public, who think he's a monster.

>>80397065
>A superhero series set in an alternate 1990s
Funny, most of mine take place in the 1980's, though I don't exactly go out of my way to specify it. Mostly because I don't want to go out of my include something in the story just for the sake of it taking place during that period

>>80383365
>What are you writing?
Porn. I finished my last regular writing thing and figured I'd give it a shot while thinking of a non-porn thing to write.
Monster girls/boys go to american not-hogwarts and get involved in whatever kink and fetish I can think of.
It's fun, I think I'm doing horribly but it's fun.
I'll probably post it somewhere eventually.

>>80383365
I'm writing a fanfic about Black Adam going to war against Darkseid after Darkseid threatens Kahndaq. But in doing so, Black Adam must assemble his own small army to fight against Darkseid, including his old foe, Captain Marvel. I've even got some dialogue exchange between Black Adam and Darkseid that I'll show you:


DARKSEID: This planet will be mine for the taking. I'll be grateful to have such a small nation at my beck and call.
BLACK ADAM: Over my dead body.
DARKSEID: You dare threaten me, Teth Adam?
BLACK ADAM: I do. I'm all that stands between you and my nation.
DARKSEID: Bite you tongue, Adam. Do not forget that I am a God.
BLACK ADAM: You may be but ONE God, but I have the power of seven Gods. But regardless of that... God or not... You threaten my people, you attack my nation... You die tonight.

>>80397925
Work on that dialogue.

does everyone in here just like
drop their shit and go? or is everything posted so uninteresting that you dont even comment on anything?

i guess most of the posters not actually writing or just starting doesnt help

>>80400061
>drop their shit and go?

Pretty much.

I have things to write on my own. I guess I'll try to be less of a dick and look over what other people are posting...

>>80400061
Idk anon. What do you want to talk about?

>>80397925
>DARKSEID: This planet will be mine for the taking.

good

>I'll be grateful to have such a small nation at my beck and call.

bad. Darkseid would never say he's "grateful" for something as small as this.

>BLACK ADAM: Over my dead body.

bad. too generic and heroic

>DARKSEID: You dare threaten me, Teth Adam?

adequate, but could be improved. "over my dead body" doesn't exactly hint at a threat, does it?

>BLACK ADAM: I do. I'm all that stands between you and my nation.

again, generic. something like "anyone who dares subjugate my people will feel my wrath" is better: hints at Black Adam's past, etc. don't use that line, though: it's bad and it's my OC donut steel.

>DARKSEID: Bite you tongue, Adam. Do not forget that I am a God.

adequate. the second sentence is bretty gud

>BLACK ADAM: You may be but ONE God, but I have the power of seven Gods.

good

>But regardless of that... God or not... You threaten my people, you attack my nation... You die tonight.

eh. i suppose it works.

>What are you writing?
Currently working on world-building for a space opera set in a futuristic sci-fi universe heavily inspired by different mythologies. The main characters are a space-Irish girl named after and possibly a reincarnation of the Morrigan, a Minotaur outlaw, a robot myrmidon, and a bounty hunter known as the Last Wolf of Anubis thusly named because he is the last of a mysterious order of resurrected warriors with the same name. Also writing a short story about the characters being forced to fight in an arena lorded over by a Vishnu-looking mother fucker.
>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
My quota is to write until the magic is gone and the words become forced. I reached it earlier, at about 2.
>How many words did you write today?
I don't keep count by words.
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
I think my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength. I write in a very casual manner, language-wise, and it helps everything to flow quite nicely. But it feels stagnant and samey.
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
Always. It helps by giving me sort of a soundtrack for what I'm writing. It depends on what I'm writing.
>Your advice for struggling writers?
Write everything. Every stupid idea you've got, put it to paper. You'll find a use for it.

>>80401742
>Currently working on world-building for a space opera set in a futuristic sci-fi universe heavily inspired by different mythologies. The main characters are a space-Irish girl named after and possibly a reincarnation of the Morrigan, a Minotaur outlaw, a robot myrmidon, and a bounty hunter known as the Last Wolf of Anubis thusly named because he is the last of a mysterious order of resurrected warriors with the same name. Also writing a short story about the characters being forced to fight in an arena lorded over by a Vishnu-looking mother fucker.
That actually sounds fucking great.

>>80383365
>>What are you writing?
I'm working on a couple of things concurrently. One is a webcomic -also doing the artwork which is why its going so slow- that tries to examine magic from a western positivist perspective and rationalize modern taboos from a magical point of view. The other is a science fiction novel about language; and that's an extremely simplistic way to describe it briefness and all that.

>>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?

I set "tomorrows milestone" the day before, and no i haven't.

>>How many words did you write today?

Around 4k

>>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?

I think small emotional moments are what i do best. Action scenes is what i struggle the most.

>>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?

Often. Usually synthwave that is as stripped of lyrical content as possible. Right now Grimes' Halfaxa

>>Your advice for struggling writers?
I'm a struggling writer.

>What are you writing?
Currently, a superhero comic about an ex-mercenary turned insane superhero. I've posted about it like once or twice before.
>What is your daily quota? Did you meet it today?
I have no daily quota, and if I did, I wouldn't have met it. I'm on the second issue, and I keep trying to finish it by the end of the month. But I said that in September...
>How many words did you write today?
None.
>What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
I like to think I'm creative, but I have no discipline, drive, and I have trouble with taking myself too seriously. Among other things.
>Do you like to listen to music as you write? If so, what do you listen to?
Sometimes, yeah. I usually listen to pop punk/emo shit, like My Chemical Romance. Before you judge, they're Grant Morrison's favorite band too.
>Your advice for struggling writers?
Just write. Don't stop, don't give up, don't give a shit if you're good or bad. The worst thing you can do as a writer is not write.

>>80404411
So you're writing Badger?

>>80383365

>Your advice for struggling writers?

Here's a little bit culled from both my personal experience and my marginalia files:

* Write every goddamn day you can. Even if you only write one sentence, do it.
* Read as much and as widely as possible. Set a daily page count and stick to it.
* Your first draft is shit. Get over it and edit that motherfucker into something readable.
* Good beta readers are your best allies. Your friends will likely not be good beta readers.
* If your story contains magical, supernatural, or otherwise fantastical elements, "character buy-in" makes your story more believable. A main character can refuse to believe something like magic exists, but when they're shown that magic exists, they must buy into it. You get one solid "what the fuck"-esque refusal; after that, either your character buys into it or the suspension of disbelief gets shot to hell.
* Quoting Ray Bradbury: "All the paragraphs are shots. By the way the paragraph reads, you know whether it's a close-up or a long shot."
* Buy a copy of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style". Read it cover-to-cover. Keep it nearby while you write until you no longer need to.
* Actions have consequences. Let your characters dictate their actions; don't shoehorn them into plot points.
* In short stories, try to infer as much information about your characters as possible.
* For fanfiction writers: if you find yourself fighting canon, ask yourself whether that canon information was delivered by a secondhand source or by a person who could be either lying or uninformed. You'd be amazed how many "canon truths" you can handwave as misinformation then.
* Readers will expect every change to mean something.
* Good writing provides a strong framework for readers to infer details from and build off of. With subtext, readers engage with the text to extract additional meaning. Imply more than you say outright; if a scene is about what the scene is about, you have a fucking problem.

>>80405043
Good shit, Anon. Good shit.
>* Good beta readers are your best allies. Your friends will likely not be good beta readers.
What does this mean, though?

>>80405043
>* Your first draft is shit...
Eh. Your first draft is an experiment: you never know what you're going to get until you actually complete it. Once you actually do complete it, it's important to go over everything and see what works and what doesn't. Saying, "it's shit" is pretty defeatist and IMO isn't a good attitude to have about your work at ANY stage, even if the point is to write more.

>* Quoting Ray Bradbury: "All the paragraphs are shots. By the way the paragraph reads, you know whether it's a close-up or a long shot."
Depends on a whole bunch of shit. What you're writing, who you're writing for, etc. If you fear your reader won't keep reading with "directions" in the text (e.g. with a film script), then this is apt. But with a true comic script, for example, it's more work than needed.

>* Buy a copy of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style".
Highly disagree. Languages evolve: if you truly feel you need a style guide, pick up something recent.

>* Actions have consequences...
Agreed. To be specific: your character is entirely defined by the choices they make. In that sense, always give them choices to make and always be aware of the potential decisions they could be making at any moment.

>* Good writing provides a strong framework for readers to infer details from and build off of. With subtext, readers engage with the text to extract additional meaning. Imply more than you say outright; if a scene is about what the scene is about, you have a fucking problem.

Ehhh. I wouldn't make proclamations about what good writing does or doesn't do. When something works, it works; if it doesn't, it doesn't. With that in mind, what you said applies to some writing but not to others: an important emotional scene, for instance, might not warrant any sort of subtlety.

I agree with everything else.

>>80405759

>What does this mean, though?

A good beta reader will tell you when you've fucked up. A friend might not out of the fear that doing so could hurt your feelings. This isn't a hard rule, but it's something to keep in mind if you're getting nothing but positive feedback from friends who've read your stuff.

>>80405768

>Saying, "it's shit" is pretty defeatist

I see it as more of a recognition that nobody - NOBODY - produces a first draft that can go straight to publishing. "The first draft is shit" is a reminder to give your work a good, solid once-over and craft a much stronger second draft. But feel free to experiment all you want in the first draft, yeah. That's why it's called "the first draft".

>if you truly feel you need a style guide, pick up something recent

English hasn't evolved THAT much. "Elements of Style" is a solid foundational style guide for writers, and it's worth the read besides.

>what you said applies to some writing but not to others: an important emotional scene, for instance, might not warrant any sort of subtlety

I'll grant you that.

A few more bits of advice culled from my marginalia:

* Try thinking of fiction as non-fiction: establish facts about your characters, setting, et al.
* Bad writing is better than no writing. You can turn bad into decent and decent into good, maybe great. But we mostly start bad.
* If you've said the same thing more than once, choose the best and cut the rest.
* Strong emotions have consequences. They don't go away as soon as the event that brought them on passes.
* Construct an internal logic that defines the way your imagined world functions.
* When you feel stuck at a specific point, make a list of what wouldn't happen next.
* Fix problems with your third act by going back to your first and second acts. Any "third act problems" inevitably happen there.
* You create stories by imposing narrative on the events that happen around you.