/lit/ - Literature

>A. LaCroix's blurb is STILL a muddled, ambiguous mess
Dude, you just can't seem to learn what we're trying to tell you. We've tried telling you how to fix it 100 times by now and you still make the same mistakes each time. Erase the entire fucking thing and follow along with some blurb template that you can probably find online.

Almost every single young writer, including myself, has been poisoned by anime. The biggest problem with this is that these young writers don't actually want to write a novel but an anime or manga that they don't have the art skills or money to create. They structure their stories in the format of an anime, planning out their arcs so that they would fit in a twelve episode format or a shounenshit arc. The problem isn't them liking loldeep mecha stories but the way anime stories are paced. The epidemic is getting worse with the rise of tardshit isekai web novels, where these stories do the same thing except they're legitimized by light novel publishers.

This was the case with me and it took me a while to start thinking in terms of word count and not episode count. I still include anime elements like chuunibyou bullshit and probably always will, unless I only read literary fiction for the rest of my life starting now.