/lit/ - Literature

>>14545261
I’m already writing this

>>14501845
Video games/ tv/movies/internet kill too much of your time. Make a choice to say “I choose writing/whatever over them”. You can write on anything. I’ve been using MS Word the whole time. Some people try and buy expensive laptops and MacBooks but never start. They like the idea of wanting to be a writer but don’t want to put in the work. You don’t give someone wanting to become a race car driver a Ferrari to start. You have to work your way up learning to master the art from the ground up. I’ll tell you the truth I’m a better story teller than a writer.

>>14501845
I’m publishing this month, starting with a vampire book to get my bearings with the whole release/exposure/promotion cycle. My birthday is next week so should be soon. Cover just came back from the artist. The space opera books will follow quarterly? This year. I’ve been fortunate to find beta readers and the responses have been promising. A coworkers daughter is already creating a cosplay outfit of one of the characters

You can do anything you put your mind to. I didn’t start writing until 28. I have 14 finished novels and one 1/2 finished with another 6 planned to write in the future. I choose to write. I choose to spend my time on something that will yield a solid result and justify my time spent. Don’t be like so many who have to ask permission or wait on the approval of others. Make a plan and start today. I have every confidence. Go do good things.

>>14481781
no, but burroughs thought he could "accio apple" off his wifes head with a bullet

>>14481742
if the author doesnt have presence of mind or the forethought to plant those seeds so that they can be sown later, then thats on them. the reader takes the writer at their word and doesnt ike to have the carpt pulled out from under them or to be told "oh by the way, THIS actually happened". the the reader wont buy it

>>14481731
look at whats been done with harry potter. The magical beats stuff is expanded lorethat noone objects to because it doesnt go against the original story and rules set into place by the story everyone read. theres no problem because it doesnt affect harry journey arc

>>14481697
to be fair, there's nothing new under the sun and theres only so many plot devices and tropes you can throw together in afinite number of combinations in the "7 stories you can tell" template.It was never about Rose Tico, or the first order becuae none of it was supposed to exist in the first place.

>>14481676
eve if the directors and studios had all agreed on a great script and stuck with it then the best you could hope for is another "heroes Journey" and Lucas did that correctly the first time when he enlisted good writers to make Empire and Jedi. it was doomed from the start to not meet expectations because it was done right the first time. i too was looking forward to seeing how things went but after leaving the theater from "Force Awakens" i couldnt shake the feeling that id just seen a rehash of A New Hope" in the same way i left AVATAR saying.."Wait a minute, that was Just Dances with Wolves with bue people in it.

>>14481632
anything added after the triumph or death of the hero at the climax is entirely secondary and a sign of poor writing. i learned about this early on the early 90's when i was reading dragonlance. the characters all come together to fight Khatarsis, queen of the darkness in CHRONICLES and it was fine. grossly derivative of LOTR, but fine. in the end, the heroes come full circle and complete their journey, evil is defeated, blah blah blah, the end. good job. but as i can imagine has happened to numerous writers. youve put out your big work to a great reception and you get paid.... for awhile. after a few years the revenue stream drie up and you need to get cracking on a new I.P. or youve got to go get a job like the rest of the world. it inevitably become easier to add a caboose to the train youve already created then to start over. AND THATS WHEN IT HAPPENS. "hey! what if the character had kids?!" well,that happend to Weis and Hickman and they put out the "2nd generation" telling of the heroes offspring. Readers will never find it as satisfying because the original plot never left anything in the tank to carry over for the kids to have anything to fight with that was a serious enough threat.

>>14481608
theres a reason there isn't supposed to be a follow up to lord of the rings or harry potter or the matrix, despite there going to be a 4th movie this year. afer the final evil is conquered by the hero, the story ends. in the hary potter books, the reader is led to believe that Voldemort is the biggest, baddest, nastiest, undead, most dangerous fucker there is and that if the heroes can kill him then everything will be ok. well, they did. thats the end. the only way J.K. rowling could have continued her story with harry being anywhere involved, (or not involved for that matter) then she owuld have had to plant the seed of a second or greater evil by alluding to it in the original works. forgot to do it before the last page? oops, too late now.

Why Star wars sequel trilogy failed, utilizing the lessons learned by reading Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a thousand faces"
With everyone being up in arms over the new star wars trilogy i thought i'd take a moment to point out the true reason the fan base is divided. It doesn't have shit to so with a black stormtrooper or the asian chick. its entirely plot based. In his book, Campbell goes on to talk about how after the hero has completed their journey then the story is over. Luke skywalker became a jedi and redeemed his father. anything after that doesnt make the arc any better because it falls outside of the fundementals of the story arc. its just extra and unnecessary. Rey wasn't AS well written, but by saddling her arc with a continuation of Lukes to fight a new enemy that was never accounted for in the original works, then the overall story suffers. (cont.)

>>14475874
Don’t do it, dude. Shoot me an email at hiroann@yahoo.com and I’ll talk to you. I could even send you some of my writings if you’re interested, or we can just talk about whatever. My nephew hung himself two years ago and it’s torn the whole family apart. He was just 25 and hadn’t seen all that life has to offer. I’m sorry you’re not in the best of health.

>>14451831
>>14451880
Sent.

>>14451352
Would anyone be interested in a space opera novel? Thinking about sharing with other /lit/ anons before I publish next year. If so, post a disposable email an I’ll send something along.

Sipping bourbon by the fire at my mothers house and watching my nieces and nephews open presents. A very merry /lit/mas to all. May most of you receive what you desire and the rest what you deserve.

For Burgerpunk to even appear as a blip on the radar of meme culture you’re going to need a stand alone piece or body of work to substantiate its place in “punk” level subdivisions of fantasy or science fiction you’re imagining. There needs to be one solid example of the work that properly displays and defines the aesthetics everyone in this board seems to beat around the Bush about but never cite. I’d write it myself but I’m too busy with jetpack space operas, desu

>>14361467
Aight. Finally finished the notes for all the Sequels to the Luma series. With hard work I think can finish all 3 in the coming year. I believe in the practice of comprehensive plotting. If you don’t build a solid foundation and make a map of where you’re going... well, you get scattered meandering plot development like The Last Jedi.

>>14361248
Hey butterfly

I just write science fiction for younger people

>>14178435
Bourbon and blood

>>14177267
Sure. The “LUMA” book at the top there is the first of four in the series. The series is my rebuttal to all the “diversity screaming” seen as of late. In pop culture. I was already plotting a new series about the time Black Panther was coming out and everyone was screaming, “Not enough black heroes!”
Ok. (Flips coin) MC is black. Whoop dee do. Time passed and the whole Captain Marvel debacle arose; “not enough female heroes/strong female characters!” Ok (Flips coin) MC is female too. Based on a sketch by an artist called LOISH I created Luma, a jetpack racing girl from a utopian space station in 24XX who gets drawn into something bigger than herself. She’s not the chosen one, it’s not a heroes journey, and the sides of good and evil aren’t easily defined. She carries an engineers tool that’s essentially a sci-fi Swiss Army knife (Excalibur) Sophomoric but solid.

>>14176865
Most of them but Vampire book isn’t in there.

>>14175998
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