I want to write a short story, possibly a book, where should I start?

>>34911988
Try killing yourself, see how it goes.

>>34911988
Get some lived experience. Go for a walk, wander into parties, spend some time with nature.

The best artists spend their time living, not honing their craft. If they're talented anyway.

>>34911988
First lay out what you want to write, characters, setting, direction, major points of the story.

Set up a schedule to do X amount of words per day. If you were to write 500 words a day you'd of written 15,000 words in a 30 day month which is the average for a short novel, but still a lot less than the traditional novel which is 40,000. Aka, small enough to commit to it everyday but not overwork yourself or rather only work in moment's of inspiration.

After editing your book for awhile for things like consistency, flow, and errors you can then choose to contact a publisher near you or go straight to e-book for self publishing on a website like amazon. The former would be harder considering most publishers would want you to have a following already, and its hard to get good book publishing deals. Be ready to convert your book into appropriate formats should you choose to self publish it.

Best of luck anon.

Write a story about tragedy.

>>34911988
Can't go wrong with "Once upon a time..."

>>34911988
got any ideas already?

would like to hear them

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here's what i do
>no fap until it's annoying
>open one of my stories
>work on it until i get bored
>blow my load
such is life when writing smut

be aware that writing a book, or even a short story is a real bitch. first you ofc should have general storyline of what you will be writing. write it down, and add as many details as you can. then, based on this create our main characters, think about their motives, personalities etc. . then, its just writing everything (struggling mostly). then rewriting, rewriting rewriting, adding and removing plots, characters and shit. good luck

>>34912070
real creative faggot, maybe you should be a writer too