/lit/ - Literature

>>22876732
I try so hard to write self-insert wish-fulfillment fantasies, but the characters always end up growing into their own person and I can't live through them anymore.

>>21729932
I think I mindbroke someone with my story. I wrote this long web novel and had a super excited reader who commented on everything for years, wrote detailed reviews, speculated about plot developments, and so on. The best kind of reader, really. It was always heartwarming to see. But then the plot took a bit of a grim turn and the tone of that reader's comments turned visibly distressed along the way. When the penultimate part of the story was finished, he went on this upset tirade in the comments, insulting me, and saying how he'd lost the will to go on, and just being very anxious. It was highly unusual of such a bubbly, excited person. I made a kind of mean reply, saying he should've known what he was in for and that I don't approve getting personal. He unfollowed me on every channel and never commented on anything again.

The last I checked, that person hadn't logged in on any of his online accounts I knew in over a year, not reading anything else, or posting on social media. I think he might've killed himself.

Is there any way to find out what kind of a story becomes successful? You might have a well-written story with a unique perspective and a lot of thought put into it that interests no one. Then you might have some barely legible trash full of very basic grammatical errors and paper-thin characterization that become a smash hit and has all the readers go like, "perfect, one of the best things I've ever read!" I don't get it. It seems so completely random. Like a bad joke.

>it's that time of the month when i watch videos of western cities prior to mass immigration ruining them again

so clean

so calm

nobody's pants down around their waist with their ass hanging out