/lit/ - Literature

>>22428705
First draft is done; revisions are going slow, but it's turning out really well, so I'm not gonna rush it. If I use my time well I'll be done in about a year. It's taken me three years to get this far because I made a massive 16k word outline before starting the first draft, and the final draft is looking to be about 260k words. Got a cover, and I've been setting aside money for the ebook and a foreign translation.

>>22073174
Oh, definitely. It's a starts as a slow-burner, but there's some dramatic irony at play, because the reader knows that the monastery is going to be attacked while the characters in these early scenes do not. Cover for context

>>21806924
I've written three novels, I self-published the first one on Amazon and Kindle. It was a medieval murder mystery called A Spurious Hanging, and I wrote it at the tender age of 14 and 15, and published it when I was 17. It sucks compared to my writing today, but I was a stupid teenager and it was my first work. I spent countless hours working on formatting it myself, even though I'm not proud of it artistically, I'm certainly proud of the discipline and effort it took to create it. I spent over two years of my childhood dedicated to working on it everyday, and for my 16th birthday my folks commissioned a professional book cover for me. It was the absolute best I was capable of at the time, even though today it wouldn't be close to my current quality standards.

I wrote a second, much longer fantasy novel that I called Desolation's Reach, but never published. It's still on my harddrive, it's extremely long. 250,000 words, about 900 pages, depending on the font size and page size. It was far better than A Spurious Hanging, but by now I was improving enough as a writer to understand my limitations and see how much I was still lacking. While an improvement from my first book, I knew it wasn't good enough to publish, and trying to edit this monster of a manuscript would have been an absolute nightmare. The story wasn't structurally sound, and trying to untangle that mess would require a much more experienced editor than myself at the time. I was about 19 or 20 when I finished the second draft of Desolation's Reach and decided to shelf it for good and move on to the next book.

My current WIP is in the editing phase, and I'm going to publish it. I'm 24 now, and despite being young, I have 10 years of writing experience under my belt, since I've been writing for an hour a day every day since I was 14. I finished writing the book, and I'm in the editing phase. I dare say it's very good. It's a massive improvement from Desolation's Reach, and Desolation's Reach was a massive improvement from A Spurious Hanging. Unlike the first two books, I'm not just proud of the effort I've sunk into the book, I'm proud of its artistic merit as well. I was hoping to publish by this April, but editing is taking longer than I expected--but it's coming out superb, so it's worth the wait for me to give it the attention it needs to polish it correctly rather than try to pump it out now.

It's as long as Desolation's Reach, about 250k words. But it's structurally sound and has compelling characters, it just needs some tweaks to the plot and pacing.

>>21536519
Thanks anon, here's the cover. While it's technically fantasy, it reads more like historical fiction, mostly based on the 1400s. The first two chapters take place during the protagonist's childhood before everything goes to shit, but it's its own self-contained narrative with its own beginning, middle, and end, like a short-story. I was hoping to publish in April but editing is taking longer than expected, so probably not until fall.

>>21513597
That all sounds cool. When you say romance, are you talking about the romance genre, or romanticism set in a magic-realism setting?

My WIP is technically fantasy, but it reads more like historical fiction set in a fiction world. An agonizing amount of research has gone into it (and will until it's published).

>>21020856
Had to refresh the page and forgot to attach the cover like a moron

>>20983146
I am--currently in the editing stages; it's about 900 pages long.

>>20821999
Forgot the cover like an idiot

Howdy everyone, I'm writing what I affectionately refer to as "literary fiction," if such a thing exists. Despite being fantasy, it reads more like historical fiction. An agonizing amount of research went into this. The book will be released around next summer, but in the meantime you can read the first two chapters here if anything strikes your fancy: https://www.dylandevinewriter.com/book-preview

I'm not entitled to any feedback just because I post something, so I genuinely thank anyone who takes any time to read even a sentence of it.

Likewise, as always, I'll be going through and critiquing the other writing samples here, and if there's any Google docs you'll see me leaving comments.

Long-time lurker who just started posting, I'd like to share my current WIP and start reading some of the stuff posted in this thread. This is the third time I've posted this in /wg/, so after this I'll take a long break because nobody likes it when people keep spamming their own stuff, and I don't want to overstay my welcome.

I'm aspiring for this story to be what I affectionately refer to as "Literary Fantasy," if such a thing exists. The first two chapters can be found here: https://www.dylandevinewriter.com/book-preview

The cover is slightly misleading, as it makes the book look more like YA when it reads like a hyper-realistic historical novel, even though it's set in a fictional world. The setting is largely based off of late-medieval Norway and ancient Welsh folklore.

I understand well that I'm not entitled to free feedback just because I post something of mine, so I genuinely thank anybody who reads even a line of it for taking the time to do so.

All thoughts and criticism are welcome, don't be afraid to rip it apart.

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy my stay and start critiquing some of the other writing samples here, since everyone is always posting about how no one ever replies to their writing posts.

In the previous thread, I critiqued maybe three other writing samples, but hardly anyone posted actual writing since it devolved into a shitshow of Gardnerposting. I'll look over as many as I can in the next hour or so.

Cheers.

Long-time lurker who just started posting, I'd like to share my current WIP and start reading some of the stuff posted in this thread.

I'm aspiring for this story to be what I affectionately refer to as "Literary Fantasy," if such a thing exists. The first two chapters can be found here: https://www.dylandevinewriter.com/book-preview

The cover is slightly misleading, as it makes the book look more like YA when it reads like a hyper-realistic historical novel, even though it's set in a fictional world. The setting is largely based off of late-medieval Norway and ancient Welsh folklore.

I understand well that I'm not entitled to free feedback just because I post something of mine, so I genuinely thank anybody who reads even a line of it for taking the time to do so.

All thoughts and criticism are welcome, don't be afraid to rip it apart.

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy my stay and start critiquing some of the other writing samples here, since everyone is always posting about how no one ever replies to their writing posts.

Also, I heard that Eggplant is actually a good read. Is that just a meme like Call of the Crocodile, or is Eggplant genuinely worth reading?

>>20739337
I'm new here, and I'd like to share my current WIP and start reading some of the stuff posted in this thread.

I'm aspiring for this story to be what I affectionately refer to as "Literary Fantasy," if such a thing exists. The first two chapters can be found here: https://www.dylandevinewriter.com/book-preview

The cover is slightly misleading, as it makes the book look more like YA when it reads like a hyper-realistic historical novel, even though it's set in a fictional world. The setting is largely based off of late-medieval Norway and ancient Welsh folklore.

I understand well that I'm not entitled to free feedback just because I post something of mine, so I genuinely thank anybody who reads even a line of it for taking the time to do so.

All thoughts and criticism are welcome, don't be afraid to rip it apart.

In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy my stay and start critiquing some of the other writing samples here, since everyone is always posting about how no one ever replies to their writing posts.