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I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)16:44:22 No.20254747▶>>20254752 >>20254790 >>20254810
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All three of my romance novels flopped Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:22:09 No.20252862▶>>20252871 >>20252912 >>20252961 >>20253180 >>20253185 >>20253203 >>20253219 >>20254711 >>20254724 >>20254731 >>20254740 >>20254742
>friend is a romance author
>made $100,000 last year
>decide to become a romance author myself
>challenging and time consuming
>work 3 months straight
>my books totally flop.

I am currently trying to do a fourth but it is seeming very futile at this stage. How do I write romance in a way that middle aged normie women, and gays appreciate?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:23:51 No.20252871▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
>How do I write romance in a way that middle aged normie women, and gays appreciate?
You have to pick one, it's impossible to appeal to both in significant numbers
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:24:46 No.20252877▶
Write a book about a handsome gay man who gets seduced by an aged hagraven.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:31:06 No.20252899▶
What's your friend's name? I'm genuinely curious to read their work now kek.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:32:54 No.20252912▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
Women love rape and someone to take care of them. Also pirates

Gay men are like men and they like physical things
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:40:11 No.20252944▶
Just get the bestsellers, distill their formula and archetypes and just fill the rest for your books. Don't tell me you're actually trying to make up shit.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:43:42 No.20252961▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
It's all about marketing and not how you write.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:45:18 No.20253180▶>>20253220 >>20254726
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>How do I write romance in a way that middle aged normie women, and gays appreciate?
Write abusive smut. That's what holes like. Arrogant bullies who are also tall, muscular, rich, and for some reason obsessed with them even though they're mediocre females.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:46:40 No.20253185▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
are you using a female pseudonym? if not, use it.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:51:26 No.20253203▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
Maybe you're a shit writer.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:54:36 No.20253219▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
Why did you post a picture of a convicted child molester. What kind of romances are you writing?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:55:15 No.20253220▶
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>>20244062
>among us
ngl kinda sussy bro

R THERE ANY SUSSY BOOKS??????????????????

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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)09:57:14 No.19706805▶>>19706993 >>19707044 >>19707059
>In Creative Evolution, Bergson starts out by criticizing mechanism as it applies to the concepts of life and evolution. The mechanistic approach would preclude the possibility of any real change or creativity, as each development would be potentially contained in the preceding ones.
What's wrong with each development being potentially contained in preceding developments? Why does he say it can't be?
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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)10:20:46 No.19706882▶>>19706972
Because then it wouldn't be emergent, it would be "evolutionist" in the old sense, meaning just an unfurling or unspooling of something that already exists. It would be the revelation of a latent or hidden thing instead of the creation of a new thing. Bergson's process philosophy is aimed at giving ontological status to creativity itself.
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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)10:42:14 No.19706972▶>>19707040
>>19706882
I know that's his idea but why does he believe that?
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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)10:46:26 No.19706993▶
>>19706805 (OP)
There's no novelty if everything is 100% determined. But clearly we experience novelty anyway and have degrees of freedom in doing or not doing certain things. You should read his earlier stuff, Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory.
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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)10:56:30 No.19707040▶
>>19706972

A better question would be why do you think the reductionist's ATOMS contain everything they are different to?
How absurd to then have to invent both "cause and effect" and "emergent properties" to put back together what you derived by taking it apart.

Furthermore, where it the atom of "wetness" or of "red?" What are the atoms made of, and do they contain all the atoms they can make?

Where is the atom of "belief!"

Bergson is "wrong" but more right than the line from Plato to Kant, in that at least he questions the absurdity of what you have to create out of nothingness and unknowability to get these stupid philosophies of reality to work.
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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)10:56:58 No.19707044▶
>>19706805 (OP)
>n-no cause and effect aren't real I swear
psued
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Anonymous 01/08/22(Sat)10:59:32 No.19707059▶
>>19706805 (OP)
>the past doesn't include the future or vice versa
because he's retarded

btw the IMPOSTER is soooo SUSSY!!!! (LOLE!!!!!!!)