/lit/ - Literature

So I've got a giant fantasy book published, my first.

I'm now pausing my other projects because I had a giant writer explosion on a new project last month which is a literary fiction war based novel around modern conflict, drone warfare, proxy wars, and the men who are used as toy soldiers by foreign governments in it all. It's basically a complete 180 from my last published work.

Overall I've got a variety of things I'm gonna be publishing, and all advice says only publish things within the same genre under your name to keep your brand consistent. Frankly though this seems like advice based on other corporate publishers wanting you to be easy to catalog. Still, I'm mulling over whether I should pseudonym for different categories of works or not. I'm feeling no because I want everything under my name and wouldn't publish anything I don't want my name attached to, and nowadays I don't think it really matters that you be a "fantasy writer" or "horror writer" or "literary writer" w hen you probably do all and even blend things anyway.

4 hours down on writing today but now I'm experiencing an aura so I have to take a break because I can barely see or concentrate. It'll be gone in a bit.

>>20646562
>Why would you sit there
You would think more people would be getting disillusioned with cinema by now. I don't even have a tv in my house but I have book cases full of books. My family thinks I am eccentric, but I always have something to talk about whereas they seem like they are empty.

>>19106566
I haven't felt like a person since I was pre-pubescent.
Puberty ruined my life.
I never figured out how to play the new game that emerges during adolescence when all the rules suddenly change.
Never figured out how to actually make friends in middle and high school. I just withdrew from the world and got cystic acne that left me with a bunch of scars. University was just more of the same.
People terrify me. When I'm walking down the street, if someone is coming towards me the muscles in my torso tighten up like my body is getting ready to fight. My throat tightens up too which makes my voice crack when I have to change polite hellos with the other person as we pass one another.
All puberty did was saddle me with an insane libido.
For my ancestors who didn't grow up in the alienating suburbs I'm sure it was extremely adaptive that they would feel an overwhelming urge to fuck any woman who's not ugly, and feel terrible when they aren't having sex, but in my case it's just added unnecessary desire and pain to my life that I would be better off without. I don't need for my neural processes to be hijacked any time I catch sight of something vaguely feminine in my peripheries.
I would be very content with my life had I never developed sexually.
On an intellectual level, I don't even want sex and never have. Sexual desire has always felt foreign to me. I don't desire women socially. I don't feel a social lack in my life that only a woman could fill. What I feel is that these involuntary impulses seize hold and take possession of me. It's not something that I want to want; I hate being subject to sexual desire. It feels like possession. I hate that I have to exert all this mental effort on nofap. It's like a cruel joke that I've been laden with sexual desire and yet made unfit to ever gratify it.
And even if I could, I don't think I would truly want to. Oh sure, I would if I could, but I wouldn't recognize any value in it. 1.5 minutes of friction and then ejaculating into a little balloon? It's the weirdest, most arbitrary thing imaginable. It's a completely meaningless act. Unless you're having sex for reproduction, it's utterly pointless.
Yes, I know some people will cite all the "mental and physical health benefits" that it offers, but can't you see that once you remove reproduction from the equation, the association those supposed benefits have to the act is completely arbitrary? And doesn't it seem mildly dystopian to repurposed sex into a health supplement whose only function is to keep producer-consumer bugmen well regulated so that their productivity doesn't dip?
Sexual desire makes me feel like a caged animal. I absolutely hate it.

If I was given the choice between never feeling sexual desire again or having a girlfriend, I would choose the former.

>>18934881
Go with the "rule of cool" more than explaining things mechanically and technically correct. It's tempting to show your knowledge but you can discuss the finesse of combat when people aren't fighting, but if you do it in an action scene it slows down too much. You don't want characters trading blows over and over.
The most helpful advice I got for action and fight scenes is to think of it as a conversation or argument. Show the emotions, motivations and thoughts. The action is ultimately a physical confrontation of ideas of some kind, and the physical events can happen so fast that you have few words to say what happened to get the pacing right. Describe briefly what happens physically but make it clear why its happening because then the reader knows why this action matters. If you are clear with the motivation, it makes the physical actions more powerful when the reader immediately interprets it.
Set up the location before things go down if you can, readers will fill in the details themselves when the pace speeds up.