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Any progress on your novels?

previous thread:>>17557914

>Thread Challenge
Write a passage while drunk and post for critique

For Prose:
>The Art of Fiction
>Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
>On Becoming A Novelist
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
>How Fiction Works
>The Rhetoric of Fiction
>Steering the Craft
>On Writing, Borges

For Poetry:
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Borges


Related Material:
>What Editors Do
>A Student's Introduction to English Grammar
>Garner's Modern English Usage

Suggested books on storytelling:
>The Weekend Novelist
>Aristotle's Poetics
>Hero With a Thousand Faces
>Romance the Beat

Suggested books on getting your fucking work done you lazy piece of shit:
>Deep Work
>Atomic Habits

Traditional publishing
> Formatting manuscript
https://blog.reedsy.com/manuscript-format/
> Write a query
https://www.janefriedman.com/query-letters/
> Track your query
https://querytracker.net/

Other Resources
>General grammar/syntax/editing help
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
> When/where/how should I write?
https://jamesclear.com/daily-routines-writers
> What software should I write with?
https://self-publishingschool.com/book-writing-software-best/
> Amazon Publishing to make that KDP monie
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200635650
> Be like Charles Dickens and write serially
https://www.royalroad.com/
> Basic overview of the Screenplay format
https://screenwriting.info/

>> No.17950414

>>17950398
Why did you made a new thread before the bump limit?

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393316548

Is this any good? I'm trying to take my poetry more seriously but I'm looking for a reference for the mechanics poets use and how to use them effectively.

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>>17950398
>Any progress on your novels?
Yes, I'm done now. I was never going to become the next Faulkner, the next Nabokov or the next Joyce, but I hid behind the language barrier to avoid criticism for months, maintaining an illusion that was fun to live in while it lasted.
This will be my final post on /lit/. I've been humiliated and exposed as a fraud. My writing is pretentious, infantile, banal drivel. My observations are dull, my language grade school level. My tenses are mixed up, I use colloquialisms, ellipses and onomatopoeia.
I was never cut out for writing. I began writing my "book" on January 6th. Since then I've produced 63 thousand words for it. These words are a tide of garbage without value, without insight, without form. The themes of time, space, infinity, memory and pointless duelling are not present in my work. It was never real writing, it was anime and weebshit.
I have failed. Goodbye.

>> No.17950736

I want to ruin my life and try to become a writer. But better to fail at trying something you might actually enjoy than slogging away at a career you hate, r-right?

>> No.17950993

>>17950414
>did you made
ngmi

>> No.17951058

>>17950414
Because obscure anime triggers me

>> No.17951102

>>17950398
No, still outlining.

>> No.17951159

>anime fag created a new thread just for xer art

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>>17950398
>Any progress on your novels?
I want to start writing one, but I don't have any time for sitting and concentrate. When I have the time my brain it's kind of tired or some shit

>> No.17951251

>>17951159
Now watch him samefag hard to keep his thread on top.
>post-ip ratio 3:1

>> No.17951338

>>17951251
I think resurrecting /crit/ is the best bet.

>> No.17951444

>>17951338
I'll start one, we'll see how it goes

>> No.17951483

>>17951338
>>17951444
Crit thread
>>17951477

>> No.17951661

>>17951338
>>17951444
>>17951483
/crit/ always died because it was full of stupid pseud shit and poems and anime trash and only a few critiques per thread. It died in favour of /wg/. This edition is failing because it was created before bump limit and people get autistic about that, myself included, so have used the animefag thread out of principle.

>> No.17952307

>>17951661
I don't use the animefag thread out of principle, because one autistic faggot and his butt-buddies trying to dictate the course of the community is fucking gay

>> No.17953400

>>17952307
Isn't that exactly what you are also doing?