/lit/ - Literature

>>20481226
I'm going to put subliminal messages in my gay amish vampire x werewolf cowboy romance novel that forces your faggot mother to witness images of my gaping asshole in her sleep. Then, she will transmit them to you, and you will have learned how well I can 'expose' myself.

>>20399043
Reads more like a synopsis than a prologue. I think people sometimes misunderstand what the prologue needs to be. Although it ~can~ be a boring exposition dump, it would be leaps and bounds better to just have it be a short, but memorable intro to your world written like any other chapter, just shorter. Instead of explaining what was happening during the fall of Firegate like you're reciting a history lesson, speak from the people's perspective, really talk about the desperation, the fear and the panic, the dread of the whole affair, maybe even leave the ending vague, have the demonspawn barge down the gate, which leads into chapter 1 where the whole ascention bit happens, and then have that be hopeful and great and lead into the rest of your story.

Also don't introduce terms without explaining what they are, like ringworld. If your setting is different from your typical planet and if that's somehow important to the story, say what it is. If it is what I think it is, you can do this by having someone stare up at the other end of the ring and pray, or have a palce teetering off of the edge and have someone peer over and remark on the nature of the world, organic exposition goes a long way.

>>20399343
I like it, the explanation feels organic and smooth. One thing I'd comment on is having a bit of sentence variety, all your sentences are pretty long and you could cut up a couple of them to give it a bit of bounce and better flow. It's more of a personal gripe, but still.

>>20399080
I have: Stoatly. I love the word stoat and I wanted to have a word that describes being weasely and needed it to have a nice ring to it for the sake of alliteration. Thus, stoatly was born.

>>20287076
Question for gore-heavy content and racism as a narrative tool on RR; a large part of my story is that the MC and his people are very much ethnoationalistic and thus consider anyone who isn't one of them a subhuman. Granted, it is a fantasy so the 'others' aren't actually human, but my point still stands. My question is, how likely are people to freak out at finding this out since its supposed to be revealed ~10 chapters in, and how badly will they react to scenes of rape, extreme cruelty and gore?

>>20217321
Music. I listen to songs. I'm ultra retarded with a hyperactive imagination so I can glean a lot of inspiration from random lyrics, or songs that have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm trying to write / my story. That's how it started, and that's how I keep farming new ideas. They're rarely cogent at the start, but the more I listen and the more I think about them, especially after I put them to paper, they coalesce into something (somewhat) usable.