/lit/ - Literature

>>18050810
It is on purpose and it's profitable and efficient as a system. You just don't understand malice. Some malice out of gain and advantage in cheating but mostly just petty fruitless mean spite.

>>18026290
Thanks Anon. I'm minimizing my Normie obstructed idle time. You've helped me cut a lot of dross while hiding the fact.

>>17963983
>Fasting is hippie schlomo shit
Fat fingers typed this post.
But your pic has a point on ethics and idealism that there is an excess of morality coexisting with a complacent apathetic profound ignorance.
Morality has a point of diminishing returns.
>Inb4 my magic super ghost is super real
My magic super ghost is a real spell it might as well be my [STAND] used to possess normies with control of their barks and mating calls while tuning out other smart guy proprietors.

>>17430435
I have a related anecdote which might be relevant. Around 2014 or so I came up with the idea for a book. Rather I came up with a single scene that I thought was cool and over a few months created a world in which that scene could reasonably happen. In 2018 I finally got to writing the first draft. The main character was a reporter for a shitty tabloid magazine, or her world's equivalent, and got sent out to the boonies to interview the locals about some meteor saw. Over the course of the plot a lot of weird shit happened and it turned out that it was an alien invasion, sort of. The characters kind of sucked and everything was very dramatic. The plot meandered a bit, had some nonsensical things that I didn't like, and eventually fell apart when I realized that the only sensible outcome to it was to kill the main character. I dropped that draft at just over 213000 words.

Later, in November of 2019, I started again. This time the main character was the sole police officer assigned to the town. Plot points were largely the same but with the fat cut out and a few of the more "out there" ones changed into things that didn't feel as contrived. My style had improved dramatically too. I was better at describing things, showing emotions, and communicating the contents of a scene. Eventually the plot got to the point of the alien reveal and I realized I had no idea how to get from where I was to the ending I envisioned. I left it to sit, went on vacation, and never picked it back up again because I couldn't resolve the plot issues and didn't have sufficient outlining to remember everything. I dropped the draft at 138k words.

As of last week I've started again with a better outline and character sheets. Already I can see the improvement. The setting is more coherent, character motivations make more sense, and I'm only 10k words into chapter 1. I know exactly where I'm going, how I'm getting there, and why. This third revision has learned from all of the previous failures I've made and I hope it will finally be the one I finish. Why did I tell you all that shit? Because I average 1.5k-2k words per day, 7 days a week, and I only spend an hour or two a day writing. If you want to test out a novel idea and have no idea if it'll work, do what I did and dedicate an hour or two a day to just write fast and rough. If I was being honest with myself my first draft would have been dropped 3 chapters in (~30k words), and my second draft before 80k words. You do the math for the time investment.

If you want to prototype a novel just do it. You won't regret it either way. Writing is fun.