/currentlywriting/

>>9593987
trying to get my sci fi short story on asteroid miners to make sense
haven't got past the intro

I'm not really sure. Some sort of lengthy existentialist whine.

>>9593987
Super-soldier goes to Uganda on a solo mission to take down Joseph Kony, ends up siding in an all out war against the revitalised Lords resistance army by joining the arrow boy's militia.

I'm writing poems about my 8.5 inch penis.

>>9594063
peen peen
my penis
clean clean
i'm a hygenist
eek eek
i'm squeamish
too bad too bad
i'm an extremist
rape rape
with my penis
women women
Eight-inch penis
she's she's
a violinist.
now now
she's squuemish
peen peen my peenis
rape rape
with my penis

Self insert story about a guy who becomes a superhero via magic maguffin

>>9594069
reminder that poetry without rhyme, alliteration or other strict restrictions is bullshit

>>9594076
penis
hygenist
squeamish
extremist
penis
penis
violinist
squeamish
penis
penis

>>9593987
Privacy, celebrity worship, being emotionally closed off, the Internet, different ways people can connect with art and how we project onto people our idealised versions of them, setting ourselves up for disappointment.

>>9594095
my diary desu

>>9593987
Same thing I always do; poetry about time, death, infinity, cosmos, etc

>>9594076
there litearlly is aliteration whtf is wrong with u faam

>>9594113
repeating the same word doesn't count m8

>>9594123
>>9594084

>>9594133
what are you talking about?
there's no alliteration there except between penis, penis, penis, penis and penis and squeamish and squeamish

I am trying to write an essay about alienation, because I feel it might finally unlock how I feel, but I can't condense all these authors thoughts, I simply have a brainstorming file.

>>9594141
all of them rhyme

>>9594169
you said there "litearlly is aliteration" and that's false

>>9594175
i didn't say that though.

>>9594187
then you came in where he left off

>>9593987
A short story about a man who is keen to marry his daughter to the son of a man he's been friends with since childhood, the subtext being that the two men had a since-unacknowleged drunken homosexual tryst during their adolescence.

>>9594195
actually, i've been in it the entire time,

>>9594013
What's the theme of the work? What sort of feeling or message do you want to tell with them?
>>9594106
Would love an example.
>>9594160
Try stream of consciousness. It help you unlock that freedom.
>>9594202
Interesting. How does the tryst affect their current day relationship?

>>9594237
>What's the theme of the work? What sort of feeling or message do you want to tell with them?
it's not supposed to be particularly high literature
it's supposed to be a narrative about how the mining facility is used as a pawn in a conflict between to rival star systems
the system that owns and operates the facility sends a new and improved AI to oversee it but its real purpose is to stage a series of catastrophes to be blamed on the other system to justify war
the story is told from the perspective of the miners who are both struggling to survive and trying to discover the meaning behind it all

eventually everyone dies but the protagonist who escapes the asteroid but I haven't worked out the details of the ending

>>9594273
I welcome any suggestions, the story is still very much in its formative phase as I've only written a few pages and I know I'll have to rewrite most of it anyway

>>9594237
>Try stream of consciousness. It help you unlock that freedom.
I might understand what you are getting at Joyce, oh oh oh but you see, I have this problem where my thoughts jump ahead, I had this trouble since school where sometimes I would make sentences that made "sense" in the order of ideas I had in that moment but at the same time were incomplete, as if what I wrote worked only if coupled with the particular state of mind I was.

Also this is not a fictional story, it's an essay, with some help from Hopper whose paintings depict this state of mind.
I am trying to connect various philosophers's idea of alienation.

Plus alienation because I am a misfit who feel like nobody knows him and knows nobody.

>>9593987

Writing a book.

It's a young adult novel that acts as a deconstruction of the superhero genre.

It's like if the the web serial Worm met the comic series The Boys, but is less edgy than either of those.

>>9593987
I've got 3 books on the go right now.

One is another sequel to a series I've got, there are already three and this one will make four. It's probably about a quarter written.

Another is a VERY strange comedy which I don't know if it's going to be hilarious for the reader or utterly cringy. I've created an omnipresent and very much God-like narrator of sorts who addresses himself as the writer of this book, takes full control of it, and actively fucks around with the book and its characters as it goes on. The 4th wall is utterly destroyed... constantly. Like I said, I don't know if it's going to be entertaining, or if it's going to utterly suck, but I think it will be a very interesting experiment.

Then, finally, and I KNOW /lit/ is going to love this... imma write a compilation of erotic short-stories/novelettes. Why? Because I find writing erotica to be enjoyable and I think I'm damn good at it, that's why.

I also self-publish, and while I'm not yet anywhere close to being a full-time writer from my books, I am most certainly making a notable amount. Who would say 'no' to $25-50 a month just for something you genuinely enjoy doing? That's how much I've been consistently making since March, and June is off to a great start. I'm already over $5 for this month.

>>9594359
how do you get people to buy your books?
self promoting?

>>9594370
When you self-publish, yes, you need to promote/market your books yourself. If you have some money to spend you can pay for some advertising, but I haven't tried it yet. Looking forward to further experimentation though; there is a MASSIVE learning curve to self-publishing, and I'm quite enjoying the process, especially considering I'm getting paid a bit for it. Just today I got an eBook sale for one of my books that are prices at $2.99 USD. Gives me $2.05 USD in royalty, which is substantial. 70% royalty is way more than you could ever hope to get in traditional publishing. I hear 15% is generally the maximum you can expect, and it's not easy to get that much.

>>9594397
What methods of promotion/marketing (bar advertising) would you recommend? I know most people show it to friends and family but i mean its not like they are going to bring in a constant stream of money.

>>9594403
My family doesn't know the titles of my books or my pseudonym. I've yet to tell my old friends, either. You can create promotions for your books using KDP Select. Using this, you can put your books for sale for up to 5 days (either individually or all together) within the 3-month period of your contract. Each individual books gets a 3-month contract and is automatically renewed until you decide not to use it anymore. Some writers shy away from giving their books away for free because they see it as wasted money or something like that. Ultimately, it costs nothing to use this free promotion with KDP, and it gets people reading your material. Could get you some ratings/reviews, can get word spreading by word of mouth, if you luck-out one of the people who get the book might have a popular blog, Youtube channel, Twitter account, or something like that through which they mention your book to give free advertising that you earned simply for having read a book that people liked.

The way to manually spread the word however, and I've learned this from other self-published authors like Derek Murphy, is to (in short) not be obnoxious about it. Don't get into people's faces and start screaming in all-caps to BUY MY BOOK! CLICK THE LINK! That's no good. I make comments on Youtube (well-written and generally multiple paragraphs, I often get thumbs-up for them), might bring it up in threads on /lit/ or /k/ (All my books thus far have had firearms in them to some extent or another) if it's relevant, and that's an important point; relevance. No point in going to a forum about, say, Game of Thrones, only to try and promote a book about a hypothetical war in the near-future with North Korea. So just write what comments you're going to write, whatever posts you typically would, and what not, and if one or some of your books are relevant, then casually and discreetly mention them somewhere around the end. Don't even have to provide a link. If they enjoyed your comment/post, then they might take it upon themselves to Google the book's title and/or your pen name. Those who aren't interested will barely notice, but those who might be could look into it themselves. If you're trying to grow crops then focus on good soil (the comment/post) to let the seeds (the mentioning of your book(s)/pen name) grow (get readers) naturally. Don't try to force it by drowning everything in miracle grow (BUY MY BOOK, IT'S GOOD, YOU'LL LIKE IT!)

So, like trolling, there's an art to marketing/promoting. Join relevant forums, and if you're daring then go to relevant threads on relevant boards. Leave good and honest comments on Youtube vids and if it applies then you can casually mention a book or two. Notice that I'm not marketing/promoting right now; just talking about what I'm currently writing though not talking about methods of marketing/promoting. I've not given my pseudonym nor the title of any of my books.

>>9594460
I noticed you can get paid per page read with KDP, does that still apply books you give away?

Slowly phasing back into an on and off project.
An assortment of story fragments about a guy "haunted" by a "ghost" Native American while going about his regular degenerate lifestyle of drug use, bar fights, and sexual deviancy. All the while he is also attempting to rebuild his dead grandfathers farm house he inherited and learning to adapt to a rural lifestyle. Been on and off working on it for about half a year now, don't see an end in sight, or what form the finished product will take.

File: feline friday.jpg (323KB, 1024x685px) Image search: [Google]

323KB, 1024x685px

i was writing a paper on Oedipal Complex thru the work of Aeon by Carl Jung. I admire it for my own reasons but I think it shows credence to the problem of addiction and mental health from a moral psychology or personality.

>>9594324
yea we use our cellphones a lot. Just write and look it over. Sometimes I'll have sentences that can be combined into one after editing. It's process and it takes grit! Steinbeck talks a lot about that "Tunnel of Terror (alienation)" in Cannery Row. Have you tried meditation? It allows you see what your minds is up to in a different way.

>>9593987
Incest. Always, always incest.

>>9594460
>Notice that I'm not marketing/promoting right now; just talking about what I'm currently writing though not talking about methods of marketing/promoting. I've not given my pseudonym nor the title of any of my books.
I know who you are though, I've seen your amazon page.

>>9594526
Getting paid by page reads is done through Kindle Unlimited, which to my understanding is like the book version of Netflix. Pay a certain amount per month, and then read as many books as you want. When you get your book contracted via KDP Select (3 months at a time, as I mentioned) then it automatically becomes available on KU. The rate of pay for KU page reads (typically called KENP; Kindle Edition Normalized Page-reads (or something like that)) is basically half a US penny per page. Averages around 47-50% of a penny, but basically you can call it half a cent. So if your book is 200 Kindle pages long and someone reads the whole thing, you get a US dollar converted to whatever currency you use. About $1.35 for Canada or Australia. To get a British Pound I guess you'd need around 250-300 KENP?

So yeah, you don't get paid for page reads from free books given away; you get NO many in any way through giving away free books, unless they then buy your other books or tell others about you who then buys your books or checks them out on KU. Giving away free books is simply a way to get people reading your stuff. It's an efficient way of finding readers, and I do find that often times after a successful promotional period with dozens or even over 100 free downloads, I then end up with a surge of paid downloads and maybe even a paperback sale or two. Paperback sales are very rare though; eBooks and KENP is where it's at. Just a couple days ago I got over 300 KENP which is over $1.50 US, which is over $2.00 CAD or AUD. Might not sound like much, but it certainly adds up if it can be maintained.

For Kindle book pricing, it's 35% royalties for under $2.99 USD, and 70% royalty for $2.99 or more. So at $0.99 USD, the lowest price (great for when you're just starting out and want to encourage people to just give your stuff a try) you get $0.35 USD in royalties. At $2.99 you get $2.05 which is VERY nice. I got a sale like that today, and it's always pleasant to see. Ultimately though, you can decide your pricing. If you're greedy and set it to $10.00, well, firstly it's highly doubtful anyone will buy it unless you have a well-established pen name that people are familiar with and love, but if you DO get some sales you'll get about $7.00 a pop which is no small chunk of change. Ten sales and that's $70.00. You can set your paperbacks to almost whatever price you want but you don't make as much in royalties because Amazon actually has to manufacture a physical book, which costs money, and they also take a cut on top of that so a 200-page book of a relatively small dimension (height/width) set to $10.00 will MAYBE get you... $3.00? They have a royalty calculator on CreateSpace to help you find out. Just check out CreateSpace if you want to self-publish. They do a pretty good job at holding your hand through the whole process.

>>9594735
Fair enough; I'm on /lit/ pretty often so I guess after a while people just become familiar with the way I type and the things I say.

>>9594703
>meditation
I have tried Tulpas, but it does not seem to work for me, either because maybe I can't meditate (attention problems, and how would I know I am doing it right?) or because my mind is missing something.

File: 1485555223334.jpg (29KB, 480x411px) Image search: [Google]

29KB, 480x411px

I wanted to write a short story based on an idea I've had a month ago, but when I started I got writer's block immediately.

>>9594751
start easy man. There's guided meditation apps. Just think of it of a crisis (Why am I unable to sit still?). Call me crazy but that voice in your head telling you don't have to try something and experience it, is the same one that's telling you "no I can't" when you qt 3.14 smiles at you (or whatever the fuck you want to do in life idk). I used Zen, which is just sitting down and focusing on your breath. The idea is you'll never stop thinking but you can acknowledge when thoughts come and let them go. All the dandies(they are all studs cuz they can lie to a girl on tinder) wanting to wear rompers can't say to themselves that they aren't their every thought. Come back to us Anon, we miss you.

Began editing one of my short stories earlier only to end up disliking it thoroughly
Work on my other projects has ceased completely

>>9594819
Have you read Oscar Wilde's "Preface" in Dorian Gray?

"We can forgive a man making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that admires it intensely."

I hate myself and have lost the will to write -- so, nothing.

Novella/short novel in the editing stages

It's about a dude in college at the center of a cosa nostra inspired outfit living in an America beseiged by a soft insurrection (mostly nonviolent, things like extreme graffiti). Basically they take advantage of an overworked police force and rely on the college environment to mask their operation that runs from Canada to New Gloucester (Boston).

It's framed as both a confession/memoir (the dude is dying and the investigation recently turned up new info that might send him to prison) AND a classified investigative profile after the MC vanishes despite seemingly dying of an unknown illness.

It's mostly just how much this kid spends too much time in his own head and the events progress like a more tragic Guy Ritchie story.

Conceptually it's hip hop in a comparatively long story form. Race, fame, expectation, privacy, secrecy, crime, family, etc. are examined.

>>9594933
you pitched this before i think but now it sounds worse.
It used to sound kinda high-brow now it just sounds like youre pandering

novella about journalism and the current political climate. It's set on a college campus and is about a campus protest against a largely innocuous subject that gets out of control and ends up being coopted by increasingly radical and ridiculous causes. I'm trying to create sort of a Rothian tone and style.

>>9594933
also too much like Infinite jest.
>canada/boston crime operation
>kid spends too much time in his own head while cold-playing serious-crime shit ocurrs thematically

>>9594941
Eh, whatever. I love it. My friends and family support me and it's the first thing that I've really comitted to. I'm young and this is just a fun idea that normies weebs will both enjoy.

>>9594944
generic as is. mix it with somehing else.

>>9594946
Is that what Infinite Jest is about? Huh. It doesn't occur in Canada or Boston but that's the spread of the operation.

>>9594956
it's a slow-moving school drama about a kid-trapped in his head dealing with his trouble-making classmates paralleled with gritty drug addict recovery life in boston as canadian insurgents plan a terror attack on the united states
Its just amore interesting creative version of what youre doing.
I recommend you either make your story very edgy or really play up the romatic angle of the thing.
Don't make it childish which i worry it will be considering what you said in your post about being young and family and friends suppor or whatever

>>9593987
formulating a cohesive story about anthropomorphized birds.

>>9594980
Okay. I'm gonna pretend to listen to you instead of arguing, even though my book has nothing to do with Canada, terrorism, addiction, Boston, TENNIS, corporate prositution or school. He goes to school and he spends too much time in his head because that's his job, not his tragedy.

I appreciate you pushing creative originallity. It's really just a socially conscious hip hop story with elements of transgressive fiction, surrealism, altermodern fiction and hysterical realism.

>>9595008
Bojack Horseman would like a word

>>9595013
>. Race, fame, expectation, privacy, secrecy, crime, family, etc. are examined.
these are all themes of IJ though
You fail to see how terrorism, addiction and tennis are just vehicles to the same themes youre discussing.
the difference is that the setting is original and creative.
yours is pandering with... hip hop?? what does that even mean? that it's disjointed and postmodern with reference to black people's social status in it? cuz iJ did that too...

>>9595017
no, a specific bird species. not fully anthropomorphized, but presented in such a way that people would be unable to percieve them through any other lens. I want people to inevitably cast Judgement against these birds, only to realize that they are nothing but little chirping faggots.

>>9595028
>BOSTON IS SO UNIQUE SATIRICAL CANADIANS GUYS OH AND BLACK PEOPLE

Surreal novel.

Will either be known as one of the greatest literary works of the 21st century or will be so pretentious and poorly received that it will fall into obscurity.

My mind fancies the latter.

>>9595028
>>9594980
Infinie Jest is an overindulgent ultrasuperpostmodern wanna-be-satire that ultimately says everything about absolutely nothing

>>9595037
as a setting for a hysterically-realistic post modern novel about young mid-education people that uses juxtapositions and sad realities of future-worries for effect i think its just a bit hack.

>>9595059
it says just about as much as anyone under age 35 could hope to say.
my only point is that school-story-guy needs to try to distance himself as much as possbile

>>9595071
School story guy here. I feel you. If you read it I think you'd see they're more seperate than related. Hopefully the final version will be distinct enough, but as a young writer (under 25), I'm okay with some thematic similarity to such a higjly esteemed novel. I honestly think you're interpolating what you think is there. However people choose to interpret my book is up to them. I've never had so much fun doing something. I'm just happy to not be one of those writers that doesn't even try because their idea isn't the new super original critically acclaimed satire of the year.

>>9595106
Just be original.
Dont try to make it funny either.
that would be the biggest mistake.

>>9595121
Oh god. Why do people try to make something funny? Almost an oxymoron. You can't try to be funny. Either you ARE funny because you're sad or you naturally ellicit a humorous take on things.

>>9594273
Even if you don't mean for it to be "high literature" every story has a theme or some message within it. In this case I think the asteroid imagery is very appropriate, showing how the miners are flying out of control in comparison to the empires. For the ending, would the AI kill everyone? I can't imagine it would if it were programmed not to. Would the protagonist do it to stop the war? Would his friend do it? Or maybe someone unknown?

>>9594324
With stream of consciousness writing your sentences don't necessarily have to make sense. Think of it like very quickly skimming over the pages of a book. If you go fast enough you'll only catch glimpses of words, but your choice of words and the way you feel them in your head will give you an overall view of what it's about. Then you can start seeing patterns and tying them together, building them up like a spider web.

Currently writing a high fantasy where the demons and devils worked to destroy humanity and successfully done so. But in doing so they made the gods that they worshipped feral back to their bestial forms which killed off half of their world's population.

This would be dealing with the aftermath of such and how the devils and demons go into conflict about how stupid it was to actually destroy humanity.

My main problem though is which characters I would include in the roster as recurring or main character in the story.

>>9595203
I better not use stream of consciousness because my problem is that I write in a way that is too "personal" or egocentric even, basically you would have at times to "decipher" what I write, this in the past has been a reason for many headaches, with marks that could wildly range simply because of how damn hard it was to make sense of it.

>tfw want to write erotica but have very limited sexual experience

>>9594747
Yeah, I wasn't having a go.

>>9595884
Sex is such a temporary thing, it's hard to remember any of it even when you get laid a lot. Don't worry, your imagination would be much more interesting. Just have someone with experience edits your work.

>>9595895
Thanks for the actual advice. Wasn't expecting that.

>>9595895
Erotica is all in the circumstance. The act of sex itself is fairly simple.

>>9595890
That's ok, what do you think of them?

An anarcho-capitalist society in the 2090s. Do people still read steampunk?

>>9595933
there's some details a virgin just won't know, but if you read enough of it I'm sure it could pass

>>9595954
Did they ever?
You might be able to sell steampunk to the YA crowd though.

>>9595977
Not really YA what i'm writing. Not strictly steampunk either though, just has some very strong elements.

>>9595949
It looks like you put some stuff together competently and knowledgeably, though my impression is that it's not particularly inspired stuff. There may be a market for it, but it's just not anything that appeals to me personally.

>>9595954
Steampunk in its premise is pretty silly.
Better to make a civilization that hasn't advanced beyond industrial tech (minus electricity), because of magic.
This way you can go crazy into "superstructures" and stuff like huge tanks nearing 40K territory.
Electric-tech has no use in a world where common folk can start tiny flames/sparks in a couple seconds of concentration.

>>9596024
If it doesn't play a big part of the story then why include it?
>>9596305
>Electric-tech has no use in a world where common folk can start tiny flames/sparks in a couple seconds of concentration.
That's where you're wrong. Electricity is dead simple to produce if you can make fire, and can be stored almost indefinitely in batteries. It requires no concentration to flip a light switch.

>>9596096
No worries, to each their own. My first book is actually one that I had wanted to write for many years but finally got around to it in 2016. I actually went straight from writing that to writing most of its sequel before finally calming down and going back to that first book to edit it. Went over it many times, in total around 3 or 4 drafts. I then wrote an erotica that also has, to a small degree, some experiences in my own sexual life, but also I just plain ol' like writing smut so I don't know if that could be considered inspired or uninspired. Either way, I quite enjoyed it. I then wrote an action that had a bunch of gun porn in it for my fellow gun nuts, then a drama piece about the stuggles men face when the issue of divorce is raised which also touches on the issue of male suicide, and only THEN several months later did I dust off that sequel and gave it a finish, making it my 5th book and 1st sequel. A month later came yet another sequel, which is actually the book that I got an eBook sale today along with a couple dozen page reads which is nice.

I do believe I'm tapping into a market of sorts, because I get relatively regular sales and KENP. May was a little bit of a slump but June is going quite well, meanwhile March and April was fantastic in my opinion, considering I haven't been a self-published author for so much as a year yet. Still got a case of writer's block on the go unfortunately but I think it's soon to come to an end. Looking forward to getting a 7th book finished once I decide which of the ones I've started that I want to dive into. I'm most definitely finding a real passion in writing, I've been going at it steadily for many months now, and I look forward to continuing.

Working on my book about humans sharing a world with demons when the latter caused an event humans dubbed the Realm Tear Crisis. Demons entered the world in an attempt to flee from an evil they won't discuss. They brought possessions, curses, hauntings and the I'll with them, as well as magic, which I call witching. There are benign and malignant demons, the former of which establish an order called Wycyrí. Humans call the order the Watchers. These demons feel they've unbalanced the human world, but in their reluctance to return to Maléfor, they instead defend the humans from the maleficent demons. The story follows a human antihero who endeavors to become a Wycyr, and once he discovers dark secrets within the order he makes it his personal mission to tear the order apart. From Death's personal soul collectors to the Makers and Dread God, there's a lot invested in this world. I hope to get it published.

It's currently 750 pages in length.

>>9594069
more

>>9596638
Post the first sentence

>>9596806
The frigid midnight air slithered into Cyril's nostrils, where it writhed and seethed like a wounded viper.

>>9596837
sounds sexy.

>>9596844
Thank you.

The backdrop to my fiction.

Mostly meandering among the sprawling universe I'm attempting to establish.

Porn. Drugs and magic.

>>9594752
Do you ever try writing about what you're going to write about? If I keep doing that and including "quotes" they eventually overtake the metacommentary completely.

>>9593987
A sci-fi novel, like DOOM mixed with Fantasy elements. I'm also writing it on a word-processor emulator. hate modern day word programs. Too much junk.

Hi /lit/, I thought of making my own thread to ask but saw this one here... do you guys have a guide on writing or any suggested material? I'm an illustrator and I would really like to start making some graphic novels. I have ideas but not anything well organized or fleshed out.
Over on /ic/ (art board) we have a huge wiki guide with tons of books and tutorials on how to draw the right way and I was wondering if /lit had something similar?

>>9598748
If you're an illustrator, illustrate. Don't try to learn to write too.

In short: a novel in which three New York City high schoolers and a Japanese idol singer discover that the collective unconscious is a grand inferno-like cityscape. Furtive, innocent explorations lead to attempts at social engineering that end in disaster when they attract the attention of a globalist cabal dedicated to chasing the ultimate orgasm

>>9598762
But there are lots of illustrators who write... they're graphic novelists... I don't want to learn how to write, I want to learn how to make a good story that I can draw out. When I was 18 I really just wanted to make books so I taught myself how to draw better cause I thought it'd be better than learning to write with words.

>>9594013
check out the short story "Anchorite" by Randall Garrett, there is some talk about asteroid mining in that.

Short story about an intern who does nothing and is praised by all for no reason. He gets promoted where he continues to do nothing beyond smile at people and look busy but really he posts of a forum all day.

Eventually he kills himself

>>9593987
Something about Wizards and Magical Girls. Lots of things stolen from Madoka and World of Darkness, but I'm less interested in the setting, it's just something I had thought was really cool, and more interested in the main character, who I'm using to explore what it means to be a hero and to do good.

It's nothing of note, it's just deeply cathartic for me for me to write.

I don't plan on showing it to anyone besides maybe this girl who stole my thumbdrive once with all my work on it and said she loved all of it.

A guy sits across from a 10/10 hot girl from his high school at work and he can see her feet under the desk and one day he masturbates to her toes and accidentally rocket shoots his cum 4 ft and gets on her leg and feet and he fakes a seizure with his dick dripping with gobs of cum and they believe it and he gets away with it.

Short story where a man has a wet dream on an airplane.

Is there a /lit/ discord?

>>9599444
yes, it's awful.

Short story where a man has a wet dream in the bathroom where he naps at work.

>>9599445
Link me please.

Don't link him

>>9599506
I have a book published, I have lots to contribute, I'm currently working with a film crew making feature lengths.

>>9599513
Prove it, villain

>>9593987
Heart of Darkness only with Vasco da Gama and also I've never read Heart of Darkness.

A short story where a man (female) has a wet dream while driving a school bus full of Puerto Rican kids.

>>9599535
It's a technique I like to call "creative not-reading".

>>9593987
Proposals and emails mainly.

>Tfw just trying to get a freelance writing gig for a few small political websites publishing articles and opinion pieces

Anyone been here? Any advice for a college student looking for some more income? I already have a "real" job (for a college student, at least) working 35 hours a week. Looking for something on top of that.

Short story where a man gets a job freelance writing for a political site but falls asleep with his work laptop in his lap and has a wet dream, ruining it.

The Paratt formalism for calculating X-ray reflectivity curves.

>>9593987
So guys, I was to start to write a bout this old nigga, but this happened.
>Meet ex-con with a promising future fucked by his even more fucked crimes. He became an artist in jail
>Free now, he thinks he can promote his art throught some people writing about it (he is really talented)
>So that's what I would write about
>Interview starts, he is obviously high, and is justifying his crimes throught his work
>I start to feel uneasy, then find out he is also recording me
>I left after one hour with mixed feelings. Of being stupid, I became involved with dangerous people. Mad about how I feel the pression of the Law. Annoyed because the guy wasn't honest. Furious with myself for being stupidly naive. And also I feel an ass, maybe I am looking too much into it.
So, how can I differentiate my own fears from my prejudices?
Because it can backfired to me any content related to him.

>>9599563
Ha, except not that kind of job. My boss man wouldn't give me a laptop for anything.

10/10, would read tho.

>>9596466
Yeah that's good. You're not going to be the next Pynchon but you have a solid basis to work from. Firearm porn doesn't appeal to the intellectual market but you're not gunning for them, so it's fine. So long as you enjoy what you're doing.

>>9599723
>but you're not gunning for them

How proud of that line were you?

It's about two personifications of war meeting each other, eating a meal together, and then using a bunch of ambiguous language to suggest they are either fucking or killing each other (in reality they're doing neither).

Two personifications of war have a slumber party and have wet dreams

>>9599700
Sounds like it could of been an interesting art project,and unfortunately there was no way you could of known he was going to do that.

>>9599777
Based on those God-trips, I think he was pretty fucking proud of that line, and he should be.

>>9599723
Thanks, and you're right. I don't know anything about Pynchon's work because I haven't read any of his stuff (yet), but I'm indeed not looking to be some sort of next big name in intellectual works. I'm just writing what interests me. In a few year's time, who knows, maybe I'll have some thoughts worth putting to paper, but for now I'm just a dude in his 20s having fun, and just so happen to be making some money while doing it. Made almost $3 yesterday, which is awesome. Who knows, maybe June will be another $50 month, or maybe once I get my 7th book finished, whatever it will be, I'll get a big spike in sales and this will finally be my first three-digit month; $100+. Everyone's got to start somewhere, and it can't be argued that compared to most new self-published authors I've got a DAMN good start. I hear most don't make $100 in their first year, but I made that in 2 month's time. Still, my first almost 5 months seen almost no money at all, less than $10 for sure, but I still kept writing and editing because I love it, so you can't say I write just for the money. My end goal is to be a full-time writer, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy what I do. Cheers, anon!

>>9599777
I don't know what you mean. All I was saying was that they're not his target market.

>>9599700
write about it dummy

Anyone here know any good stories revolving around writer's block?

>>9598748
/lit/'s focused more on reading than writing, so our guides are pretty exclusively limited to that.

However, I myself would recommend John Gardner's Art of Creative Writing. It won't directly translate to kids' comic books, though.

It's about a guy who becomes an enemy of God, and also some other faggot.

>>9599945
You dog! Madman rattling these off left and right

>>9599995
proper bangin eh

>>9600029
FUCK

>>9600042
Language, please. There's no need to shoot your mouth off.

>>9600063
Wow anon you're "GUNNING" me to death jajaja

>>9600127
lel triggered

>>9600130
>>9600127
>>9600063
>>9600042
>>9600029
>>9599995
>>9599945
>>9599777
>>9599723
All of these posts were shot by me

>>9600148
wow anon you sure don't seem assBLASTED

>>9599956
It sounds really cool from outside, isn't it? But now I am into this mess I feel haunted. Maybe in some years I can go back to this topic.
>>9599920
Indeed, part of me still wants it but some people already warned me that I should not only think about myself but people who surrounds me. Life is pretty fucked. even with the benefit of the doubt, I feel like I failed to my commitment with myself, and even so the uncertainty keeps showing more and more red flags.

>>9600169
Which commitment are you talking about?

>>9600154
Reply again and you'll wake up dead

>>9600208
Bull.et

>>9600169
>But now I am into this mess I feel haunted. Maybe in some years I can go back to this topic.
Write down as much of it as you can now. Not for showing to anyone, just so you can remember it when you feel ready to.

>>9600169
>But now I am into this mess I feel haunted
write about it dummy

>>9600216
>>9600220
Thanks for the suggestions, you are right.

>WHAT ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT

A poem about the lower classes, basically you people and how stupid you all are.

>>9598766
The characters already seem like an interesting bunch. It really gives off an air of adventure which is then further pronounced with an original plot-concept.

>>9595257
>high fantasy
What you've described goes out of the way to break a few Epic Fantasy/High Fantasy tropes since it sounds as if it will not really have a primary antagonist. Unless you make demons/devils as the villains while their counterpart as heroes.

>How will the conflict pan out and which kinds of conflict will happen?
>What is the history of the setting and is this the first time that this has happened?
>How does the magic work in this world and what sort of major locations are in this setting? These are all the things you need to expand on if you want to make a high fantasy to work well.

>>9595257
Original, I like it.

I think what would be most fascinating would be the social order of these demons and how they conduct their affairds in their environment. It's going to be based on this world yet seem nothing like it.

This is just my personal reason for liking this though, you and others may not agree.

>>9600339
I second these questions, I'd like to find out how you intend to expand on this concept, if you have thought that far, though.

>>9593987
Here's mine, would love some feedback on the concept, as I've already written out the first 200+ pages
>1960s, somewhere in the hinterlands between Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil
>a young communist revolutionary band is shadowed by a Marxist-sympathizing journalist encounters an old hacienda mansion
>the only occupant is the adolescent son of a Nazi war criminal, a teenaged Tupi maid and an aged black manservant.
>CIA-led government militia attack the nearby village
>the residents reveal that in an old warehouse sits a fully functional, modified Tiger II tank with fuel and munitions. Tupi maid and Nazi Jr. join the communists with minimal understanding of the cause they're actually fighting
>The journalist, communist column, and the two teenagers get involved in odd misadventures in the jungle.
>Broad sweeping critiques of Latin American Catholicism, gender, and the communist failures of the 60s.

>>9593987
i was writing about depression and suicide but its hard to not get emotionally involved on these themes and these emotions just destroy any quality or originality i think

>>9600548
Catch-22-tier desu

>>9600548
Sounds good, just avoid romance if you somehow have it plan it.
>Broad sweeping critiques of Latin American Catholicism, gender, and the communist failures of the 60s.
I feel like this sounds pretty biased.

>>9600580
So we're clear this is an insult

>>9600580
Is calling some huefags pulp teen adventure on par with one of the major works of postmodern canon really insulting?

>>9600587
The critiques come from everyone in every direction. Hispanics on the whole are quick to criticize

>>9600676
Yes, but I suppose it's not clear which work is more insulted.

>>9600339
pt.1
I've actually thought about this a whole lot and here's what I've got currently:
>How will the conflict pan out and which kinds of conflict will happen?
I planned to have the demons be the "main antagonists" in this story and their conflicts with devils and other races that have survived are mainly about how the demons were pretty much the ones that instigated the destruction of humanity via their own god's desires to destroy humanity due to its jealousy of never having the pleasures of being worshipped as a guardian deity.
The conflicts will inevitably have social commentary against the discrimination against the demons AND devils by the other races. But this time it's with good reason.
>What is the history of the setting and is this the first time that this has happened?
Basically, I'll be writing as though the humans were always the good guys in this story and that since the very beginning, humanity and demons specifically were always at war with each other but during the early days of humanity, they were almost always nearly wiped away by the demons due to their strength, brutality and the fact that they had a deity that's more powerful than their own. So then they set out to worship beasts and phantasmal creatures from many parts of the world in order to manifest them as a part of their pantheon which is the turning point for humanity as they now have the gods that would protect them and these gods that they worship now has a place to call their own and a family to protect in a sort of a symbiotic relationship rather than the traditional servants of god type of thing.
I also have to point out that other races also have their own gods as well but there might me be certain gods that both humans and other races have also worshipped.
And yes, this will be the first time that a major race and a half of the world's population being dead. I plan to have elves be in this setting as a staple but this time I'll have them look for the humans and are in are accepting of most other races (apart from Demons and Devils) and this will also include other staple races such as dwarves, goblins, beastkin and many others that may or may not hate demons AND devils.
>How does the magic work in this world?
In this world, it'll be traditionalist in that there will be two sources of magic vitr which is found around everywhere and is the considered as the "natural" energy and nitro which are the your spiritual energies that reside in your body and reflective of one's spiritual strength. To reflect the casting types of this system, Vitr will mainly be for elemental magic but can still be used for non-elemental ones whilst Nitro will be more specific and advanced magic like barriers, mind manipulation, illusionary, shape-shifting and all that jazz.
I have planned to make the devils more in tuned with using magic from Vitr but still somewhat mediocre for the Nitro whilst demons don't have the capability of using Nitro-fuelled magic.

>>9595257
>>9600766
Kind of basic IMO. I wanna learn more about the impacts of humanity's gods going feral like maybe the other races' gods are threatened by the feral human gods or something like that. It should have higher stakes here and have a more tense nature. But not anything too edgy since this isn't a Dark Fantasy.

>>9600684
Basically because it sounds like a new Marquez or Vargas Llosa, so is not hard to imagine what is he trying to do.

>>9599937
this might be a silly question but..

What word processor do you use to write? Microsoft word?

A hardcore erotic short story. It's mostly just masturbation fuel for me but I have never been more motivated to edit. Its a good exercise for me.

>>9601475
Yeah, it's a Microsoft Word thing.

>>9594273
Have you read Germinal?

Would it be possible to publish a book with some colored text in it? Just a few colors used sparsely.

At the moment I'm doing what I would call writing tests. I'm planning out a somewhat satiric literary fiction novel, and I'm kind of writing test pieces so that I can get a feel for the main character, the setting, and the prose style I'll be using.

I really need to knuckle down and finish the fantasy novel I've been writing before I get any further than that, though.

>>9601629
That sounds like a question for, oh I don't know, a publisher?

>>9601734
Get drunk and write as much as you can in one sitting

Better yet get some speed and bang both out in a week

>>9595031
gay.

20-something guy and his 11yrs old cousin are in love. the girls' family is high class but pretty disfunctional. her father is a drunkard and her mother just doesn't care. guy is pretty immature, wants to marry the girl. decides to take her home to spend the night.
her father is an asshole and kills the guy

>>9602102
also a story about the day of a woman with OCD.
and another one about a guy who doesn't see his family in a while. he meets them in a funeral. they're all assholes except two or three

>>9600786
>Kind of basic
May I ask you which novels you have read that had this type of setting?
I'll feel bad if I'm actually ripping off of someone else's ideas without knowing it.

>drink whisky until the pain dissipates
>do about 3g of cooncil
>cover my computer screen with a dark sheet
>put on blasting techno and type to the beat of the music

i dont know what im writing but it is my masterpiece

>>9593987
I've recently come back to a book I started writing 5 years ago and stopped writing when life got in the way. I read through it and, to my immediate surprise, I didn't hate it. So now I'm about 60,000 words into a science fantasy novel about the dangers of zealotry and how it's very easy to trade one dogma for another.

>>9593987
I'm currently editing the dates on my DFW Ponoma/Fila sweatsuit copypasta

>>9603127
What about zealotry for objective decision making. How could that possibly go wrong?

>>9603145
That plays into it, to an extent. Both prominent factions apply a credo of warped rationalism. The plot involves the protagonists coming to the realisation that both sides are objectively wrong and that, while not ideal, stopping either faction from achieving total dominance is the best option.

>>9603214
No but I mean there is nothing that could go wrong for having a dogma against non-objective reasoning.

That could only be beneficial.

>>9603230
I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean that there are positive elements within zealotry on a societal level? Like using a belief system to structure important social responsibilities? I can agree with that to an extent. But then I think it's a more nuanced issue than all good or all bad.

>>9603240
If it's done with care it can be all good, but we agree on a fundamental level.

Lately I have been jotting down small poems for my newest lover. Unfortunately, I feel as though I must marry this girl. A genuine, one-of-a-kind.

Currently have to write a paper on the intersection between globalization, Information and Communication Technologies and the creation of sexual communities online.

Other than that, I'm thinking about writing a novella for a competition in my hometown - probably going to go with horror/existentialist themes, either Lovecraftian suburban fare or /x/'s skinwalkers (long overdue a more reasoned narrative than those they're usually given).

>>9603373
What;s so special about her?

Could you write a poem that makes the reader cum buckets in an instance?

>>9594175
You're clearly a pseud who knows nothing about internal rhymes and what actually goes into poetic flow

>>9594069
>8.5 inch penis
>2 inches of text

I measured, and you're a pig piece of shit.

>>9603506
My writing is subpar, but I hope to reach that level of intensity in my writings.

Everything is special about her. My life had truly not begun until I found her. It's complicated to put into words, but I hope that one day, I may be able to.

I get sprinklings of ideas that I can never put to paper all that well. The latest is about a Mormon kid who fails his mission and ends up living in a commune with a bunch of young people who are radically different to him. The culture shock is initially good for him, but ends up totally destroying him. In his effort to return to normality he escapes to a village full of telecommication sensitive Mormons who are practicing some weird cult like activities.

I'm worldbuilding for a Fantasy series I will eventually(TM) write. Call me trash if you want but I'm enjoying it.

>>9602665
Sorry for not making it clear, I meant the magic system.

>>9605686
What type of fantasy is it? Heroic Fantasy? Dark Fantasy? Epic Fantasy? Low-Pollitical Fantasy?

I'm asking this because you'll need the world to correspond with the type of fantasy you would like to write. Unless you purposely create a dissonance in the story and the setting like say an Epic Fantasy set in the Warhammer 40K universe, where there isn't any good guys but the the story breaks that set of rules or something.

i'm writing a family drama from the perspective of the pet hamster.

>>9607568
Is the hamster self aware?

File: download.jpg (5KB, 290x174px) Image search: [Google]

5KB, 290x174px

>Tfw trying to write a book
>Tfw write a book
>Tfw entire book is structured like a rap album (sick af rhymes inc)
how do i stop doing this?

>>9608444
Learn to describe things without swearing.

>write an experimental genre fiction piece
>upload it online, expecting to get flamed
>people actually like it and ask for more
>"I guess it's okay to write one more quick"
>it turns out even longer than part 1
>find myself writing part 3 before I've even released 2

Somebody fucking stop me

>>9598766
I liked persona 5, too

>>9608444
I actually found that, during this period when I watched 'Epic Rap Battles of History' VERY often, I'd find myself reading things in a rap sort of way. It was quite annoying...

>>9608588
Feels amazing when people show interest and enjoyment from what you write. Great feeling. Don't fucking stop. Let it become your obsession, your reason to live, and it will take you to great places both in the real world and in the fictional one.

working on a book about a crazy conspiracy nut telling everybody about reptilians and the international jewry, and than is tuns out he is right and the sky is filled with black coppers and nukes going off left and right.

I just finished publishing a poetry collection on smashwords with some 10 poems. i feel pretty proud of it but nobody's bought it.

>>9595257
>>9596638
>>9598724
All of these sound the same. I know that the collective consciousness is meant to be a thing but come on...

>>9609299
That's unfair. At least one of those deals with mental illness, coping with passing of loved ones and sexual abuse, illusions of innocence and the dark nature of humans, of being the best of yourself in the face of adversity and dying for your convictions, of parenthood and family and racism and normalcy.

Then again, plenty of texts are themed with these things, I suppose. Basic, banal, uninteresting themes.

>tfw we are our worst critic.

My book is becoming increasingly insane and complicated in the exact way I want it to. I had intended to take today off from writing but just got hit with several brainwaves or bursts of inspirations that make it even more what I wanted. Back to the grindstone tomorrow ...

I still have no idea what it's about but it's going to be fucking cool.

>>9608014
yes. he is also extremely wise and would be able to solve all the issues if somebody would bother asking him. sadly he gets eaten by the cat instead and the family goes to shit.

Writing a novel about 2 very different characters who find themselves in a very crazy situation. This leads to 1 character believing that they are being chase by the other, when in reality, that's not true until he stops being paranoid, at which point he is actually being chased.

>>9602802
>techno

>>9609509
If the actual description of the hamster's situation is good, I would read enthusiastically.

>>9609610
what would make it good in your eyes?

it's still a work in progress, so i'm open to suggestions.

A phenomenological book on consciusness where the arguments are techniques to go to alterate States of consciousness

>>9609635
A very amoral internal monologue. We are, after all, dealing with an animal. The Hamster's willingness to help the family could be framed as a self-interested attempt to pacify the family.

>>9609676
the idea was that he is fed up with all the fighting and that the teenage girl has forgotten to give him fresh water two days in a row and mom didn't do his weekly clean out AGAIN and he HAD IT WITH THIS FAMILY AND THEIR SELFISH ISSUES. AND HE WASN'T HERE TO VEGETATE IN HIS OWN FECES.

he has been observing the downfall since years and has become increasingly pissed that people can be so stupid to not realize the most obvious stuff.

there would be a long standing feud between the cat and the hamster where she is getting sneakier with every attempt to eat him and he has to get very clever to survive, untill she finally gets the upper hand.

>>9609735
he would also be very sarcastic and rarely politically correct.

>>9609299
They may sound similar but clearly all of them have their own differences. Clearly the first one will have a different plot structure than the 2nd one considering that it's supposedly a High Fantasy whilst the 2nd one looks to be more of a Heroic Fantasy.

>>9600766
>jealousy of never having the pleasures of being worshipped as a guardian deity
I've not seen this actually being done b other fantasy books or stories before. I wanna see how you integrate this into your story since this sounds promising.
>humans were always the good guys in this story
With the rise of "humanity being the bad guys all along" trope, it's kind of refreshing to see this again which I guess would immediately justify the discrimination against the devils and demons.
>a family to protect in a sort of a symbiotic relationship
That's kind of cute and romantic, again I wanna see how you integrate this minute detail into the plot than just having this be a line of exposition.

>>9593987
It's about a lonely 21 year old man who has no job, skills, talents, or future and spends all day long browsing the internet, hoping that he can redeem his miserable existence by writing an award-winning book that he can never get started on and will probably never get published even if he did finish it

What do you think of it? Personally I think it's a keeper

>>9608784

As great as the feeling may be, I think writing because you're intoxicated by positive attention and it's easy to build on established groundwork is ultimately detrimental to your ability and vision. When you take on the service mindset, you'll be struggling with the constant temptation to mechanically hand out what people want, instead of taking new risks to pursue the heights of the craft, regardless of reaction.

Now will you still call me for favors?
Will you still call me your friend?
And to think of all that we've been through
Yet this is how you'll let it end.

Yes I'll still keep all of your secrets,
Though you revel telling mine.
How sad you must be to still spite me,
As though your hatred is your shrine.

You've taken from me my compassion.
Took what little I could share.
Or maybe you just had my pity,
Now I cannot pretend to care.

So you should thank me for my mercy,
Thank me for the life you live.
For you have inflicted upon me,
A wound I will not soon forgive.

Been working on this for two goddamn months, my usual shit isn't this edgy.

I was writing a novel based on my life, except things were a lot shittier for the main character in order to justify my feelings of misery and depression.

Then last year the bad things I had written about came true. And now I can't bring myself to continue writing the story anymore.

>>9611549
I feel like I should thank you. I became irrationally assmad when all three stories were lumped together like that. Not because I feel like any one is superior, but because there is obvious dichotomy between them.

>>9611571
Well they do say "write what you know"

>>9594084
Violeenist? Or pehnis?

>>9593987
I'm writng weebshit, or atleast I'm trying to create a main character for some weebshit but I'm getting no where.

Can't even decide on gender at this point.

>>9612605
Don't start with the most basic traits, start with what you personally find the most interesting. Grow your character from there.

A good 14,000 words of the first half of the first draft done, or two-thirds of it.

9,000 of the second half done but I've basically not even started that.

Not a huge word-count so far but it's a lot of ideas and jumping around, the second draft will be much longer as it'll be filling in the spaces where I haven't made sense. It feels like everything's coming together and I'm really excited for it.

>>9612605
Obviously you make the character's gender ambiguous, which only adds to their super mysterious and dark personality.

As i awoke, the people, or should i rather say, those who are not, you might, too, notice, that when the lights were off, as i awoke, as i knew, that there were no lights, there were no people, yet the peoples, the lights, they were, and the folk, the eyes, they weren't, were they? That was when i knew.

>>9613003
Everything about this post causes me physical anguish.

>>9613003
Just write a novel using nothing except commas.

>>9613159
>>9613202
>>9613003

Let me try i again.

Bob wakes up. Bob eats breakfast. He is happy. He meets his friend. His friend is called Betty. They are good friends. They go to the garden. They play. Betty has to leave. Bob becomes sad. She has to leave anyway. Betty is also sad. Then bob goes to eat dinner. They have tacos for dinner. Bob is happy

>>9613307
This is stellar. Bravo.

>>9611604
You're making assumptions, anon.

>>9593987
I'm writing a story about a barbarian who, after a magical accident which causes her to temporarily breathe fire, sets out to defeat a dragon in single combat.

Her clan believes they are descended from dragons, and she takes the event as a sign that the dragon blood inside her has awoken. When someone questions her belief, she decides that defeating a dragon by herself, suicide for an ordinary human, will prove that she is truly dragon-blooded. The person responsible for the accident tags along, because it's their fault she's on this suicide mission to begin with. Wacky hijinks ensue.

Writing a grand fantasy as my first piece of writing. It's difficult.

>>9611571
To avoid 2meta4u backlash, you should include your own annotations/criticisms. Hell, even start the book with a brutally scathing review.

>>9613490
They're not assumptions if they're based on real life observations and experiences.