/lit/ - Literature

>9 years old

In your face, Paolini.

>>5002740
Eragon was complete shit and everyone who liked it is a faggot.

>writing novels
Enjoy your drawn-out, non-lineated, plot-obsessed garbage.

>>5002745
Now tell us how bad Twilight was, o speaker of obvious facts.

>>5002720

Is there someway to rotate the image?

>>5002720
It was going along fine until your picture snapped my neck.

18,704 words and all of it is shit. So, really good.

>>5002720
>14,000 copies sold

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a real book deal from this.

>>5002720
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140612/news/140619547/video/50aeb9db/

>I pretty much just wrote about what I did with my friend at Legoland.
Cormac McCarthy visited a lot of the places he wrote about in Blood Meridian too. Great minds think alike.

>>5002720
> This book was written in 2012 in November as a school project for National Novel Writing Month.

Fucking Nanowrimo.

>>5002745
>mfw people shit on Paolini

i'm trying to finish a single short story first. all i do is write a page or two, lose steam and then forget it. rinse and repeat with a new story

5k words after almost 6 years, to a good standard but in need of final editing

It's finished, but I'm debating whether to rewrite it.

In the past few months I actually got the attention of a literary agent. She made it all the way to asking for the full manuscript, but soon after I sent it to her she rejected it. She said the "plot and characters were slightly underdeveloped," which is honestly pretty infuriating because "slightly" is a shitty, vague weasel word.

And then again, just in the past week or so my writing style has changed, shifted from merely basic prose to a more maximalist style, and I'm honestly not sure if the novel represents my best efforts, as much as I like it.

I personally think the core story is strong and that I have a very strong main character, but if I tried I could probably make it better.

Fucking shit, though, I don't want to rewrite the whole fucking thing. It's so exhausting.

>>5004289
2.285 words/day

Pretty good pace. Assuming you're writing a 100,000 word novel, you only have about 120 years left.

>>5002774
Rotate your screen

I am still too dumb to attract inteligent people but too smart for dumb peole

>>5004388
Keep it together, anon. You've already made more progress than most of us ever will.

>>5002720
14k is enough for a bestseller now?

around 3000 words. Three weeks since I started, but only last week did I dedicate very much time to writing. I feel I'm that the point now where, after establishing everything, once I start writing again it'll come pretty easily. I think it's well written and that it is a marketable concept. I rate the prospect of having it published by a large publish house at larger than 0%.

>>5004388
Given that she asked for it and gave you some critique (though it's some generic shit), is pretty damn nice.

Take a break, some distance, perhaps even start an other project and then go and revisit your old.

>>5004289
110k after 5 years here and I still haven't learned the "just fucking write and adjust later" method. That kid from OP will have a trilogy out till I can finish my first book. Oh well.

>>5002773
it was really bad

>>5002720
http://www.amazon.com/A-Tale-Friends-Enemies-Minecraft/dp/1489574093
>11 year old writes minecraft fanfiction
>14,000 copies sold
>That fucking cover art
>"Mike Craft"

Screenplay actually, just wrote the first scene

pastebin.com/CKNuurgw

Well I wrote 1000 words of character bio today, so that's something. Reworking a novel I stopped on a few years back, and I have all kinds of neat ideas.

>14,000 copies sold

Wow he's made slightly more money than he would working a minimum wage job, well done lil guy we're all proud.

>>5005207
>aggressively belittling a nine-year old
Never change, 4chan

>>5004588
>building

why the fuck do you come to a lit board when you can't critically think or even properly read and understand?
It's projecting success, you fucking cunt.

>>5005276
>yfw 'building' was a pun off the subject of the book "minecraft"
>yfw on amazon the book is #1 in Books > Children's Books > Computers & Technology
>yfw on amazon the book is #6 in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Friendship, Social Skills & School Life > Bullies
>yfw you are literally wrong about everything

>yfw
bullies make you fucking kill yourself ,faggot

>>5005222
>headline says 11
>you say 9

Is your reading comprehension really that bad

>>5005207
>>5004588
I don't think it qualifies as a best seller, like Dan Brown or Stephen King, but nine thousand copies sold is a resounding success in the world of publishing, especially for a premier author.

>>5005378
He wrote the book in 2012

He is currently 11

Ergo...

>>5004630
>Take a break, some distance, perhaps even start an other project and then go and revisit your old.

I have in fact started some new projects, which is partly what has lead to the change in my style.

The trouble is I keep getting agents interested in the book via Twitter pitch contests. Apparently I'm just really, really good at pitching the book in 140 characters or less. I should have gone into advertising.

Now two agents want to see the first parts of it. I may as well hop back on the wagon. If these two fall through, then I'll take a break from trying to sell it.

It's got no plot so far but I'm dealing with some really neat themes!

>>5002720
Barely just getting started.

Working on world building and a magical system.

>>5005350
>Books > Children's Books > Computers & Technology
To be fair I doubt that's a category with a lot of competition