/lit/ - Literature

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>>15666992
>tfw 4600 words in a month

XD

Wrote 5000 words, didn't like it
>SCRAPPED
Wrote a 1000 word short story for the /lit/ quarterly still waiting to see if it's accepted but they have a lot of shit to go through.
2500 words, didn't like how it flowed
>On Hold
150 words or so on a new one that I've planned out, think it'll be good.

Have a weird problem where I'm afraid to expand to much in case I end up rambling then I notice I only wrote 3/4 pages worth and a load of shit happened. Don't know if it's from constant essay writing but it's annoying as fuck not being able to put a lot of detail down without feeling like I'm rambling.

>>15668279
Should also mention I wrote that 5000 and 2500 word bits in about a week for the former and 2 days for the latter.

>>15666992
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>>15668279
haha tell me about your ideas anons

>>15668308
>thinking I'll give up my ideas.

>>15668308
Agalmatophiliac Turkish millionaire kidnaps a YA male protagonist

Fucking horrible derivative garbage trash nonsense.
I wrote fucking 10,000 words while I was high off my rocker and all I could manage was some stupid bullshit made in some language I made up that the reader is able to translate via context.

>>15668368
Sounds based anon

>>15666992
What’s the point of writing novels when people watch tv and YouTube these days

is it better to have one character with an arc or three? i suppose it depends on context, but i'm curious if you think three is too much/distracting, or if one is not enough. the three would all be tied together of course

>>15668408
You could have one or two main character and then have the second/third characters have their background and arc told through the length of the book by other people. Like the way Molly's story was told through Bloom and other characters.

>>15666992
that's the length of one college essay anon

>>15666992
How many 'nigger' count?

>>15668408

Three characters tied together sounds pretty good, in a Samuel Beckett sort of way.

Remember to have long passages where they complain about being tied together but don't ever have them untie themselves even though it's easily within their powers.

>>15666992
if writing is climbing Mount Rushmore, marketing is like climbing the Rockies.

I finished 90 pages first draft for kierkegaardian horror-thriller script (Tho i'm still not sure about the ending).

I still have a lot of work and a lot to filter but i took a break for a few weeks.

>>15666992
>tfw 150 000 (two drafts) in three months
Pretty good, anon. And if I can do it, anyone can. Believe that hard work makes for tangible results and keep plodding on.

I cope by reminding myself that almost all great work made by 35+ years old and that age isn't a big factor in art (maybe beside music). If my passion was physics i would've gone mad.

pick my penis

>>15668279
>still waiting to see if it's accepted
imagine being so bad that your story gets rejected from a publication that prints stories and poems from retards on 4channel.

>>15669880
Who said it was rejected retard?

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>>15668408
>is it better to have one character with an arc or three?
Why would you have more than one?

You tell me.

>>15670522
Stop

>>15670585
No.

>>15668390
A cute booktuber might review it and say she liked it