/lit/ - Literature

more like carl sage-an, writerfag

I am never excited about finishing a story, because I immediately start on another. It doesn't mean I get a break.

Story one:

50%

Story two:

20%

Story three:

60%

Three is occupying my mind the most.

>>966713
moar like he mad

fuck man. i need to start working on mine again.
thing is, ile write sixty pages, but by the time im done editing, its down to 30.
then i scrap the whole thing, and start over.
do you guys do this?

>>966726
I know, I know, we may have bigger problems here, but you're the one who let him out of your pants, so help me find my squirrel.

>>966730

All the time, brosap.

All the time.

I spend most of my time breaking down and rebuilding my stories.

>>966721
Want to tell us something about them? I'm all ears

>>966730
Yeah, all the time. I'm a terrible perfectionist.

>>966741

Fuck no.

The last time I posted a story on /lit/, someone said that whoever let me near a word processor should be shot in the face about five times.

/lit/ gets shitted on enough by /b/ees without me dumping MY shit.

>>966745
Well, I'm not about to let anyone be shot in the face five times...

don't worry about it

I have to revise two stories from my intro class and write two more stories and a few shorts for a collection in my intermediate fiction class. One of the stories I have to revise is very close to how I want it, the other needs a major facelift. I have one line of the other story, and concepts for more stories/shorts. I'm thinking of calling it Lights in the Sky or something similar, because they all have that motif.

>>966741
Are you listening? Squirrel. S. Q. U. I. R. R. E. L.

>>966755
ohshi-

>>966762
I think I found your squirrrel, kid

I'D JUST LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE IN ADVANCE FOR THIS

>>966773
(and there it goes)

>>966776

So you let it go again!? Man, now I'm gonna have too look for it all over! Ugh!

I know how I want it to start, and where I want it to end.

I have no idea how to get from point A to point B, so I'm working on character bios and worldbuilding.

>>966786
Sorry kid, I'm a junkyard artist: only good at building shit. Not so good at getting mauled by squirrels

Better luck next time, kiddo

>>966815
But...!

>>966815
...douche...

>>966745
Too true. WANT TO JOIN MY ELITE WRITING FORUM DUDEES?

dean are you going to post this on here
poster of the year 2010 remember guys

Just started writing out the basic outline and characters for mine, should be pretty simple since there are only two major characters (the main character and the person he is "confessing" to).

But still, I suck at getting writing done so it'll take a good couple of months to finish even this short story.

>>966821
Indeed.

Only the biggest goddamn douche you have ever set eyes on, you whiney little sack of shit.

Also, Your mother is MINE

>>966824
I'm thinking /lit/ is good enough. Even if it is also /shit/

>>966830
Have you read "The Fall" by Albert Camus? Because that sounds a lot like it. I find reading stuff with a similar premise can help you work out some snags and avoid cliches when you do write it.

>>966750

Alright, you asked for it, you're getting it, don't say I didn't warn you.

The first story is a simple erotic short about a schoolteacher, the man who loves her, light bondage, and lactation, about 5,000 words at the moment.

The second story is set in historical France. It deals with an assassin from Eastern Europe, specifically, the Transylvanian area. We follow them as they infiltrate a city, gather information about their mark, observe their mark, and eventually go in for the kill. It's at 2,900 words.

The last story is fanfiction and deals with a multi-national joint task force deployed into a hostile zone. Half of the people who read it want me to continue, the other half want me to abandon my first serious foray into fanfiction.

/lit/, in particular, wants to see it, so when it's done I'll be dropping it here.


>Hurr durr field too long

TBC

A few close friends are reading my novel. After I read their suggestions, I have to find an agent.

>>966750
>>966863

>CONT'D

It is my most ponderous short story at the moment, because of my laborious descriptions of the equipment said Task Force uses. I drew heavily on Tom Clancy for it - to the point where I spent a whole page or two describing the workings of a battle rifle. I also went through the motions of how it all worked.

Instead of:

>The Operator put a new clip in her gun, and fired back at the enemy

as most people would, I wrote

>Pulling a fresh mag from her utility belt, the Operator hit the release lever, letting the empty mag fall to the ground, She shoved the new magazine in, giving the charging handle a pull back, until the rifle responded with a sharp, metallic -ping-, then she brought the stock back up to her shoulder, lining the ironsights up with her eyes.

>Two tangoes were rushing towards her. In one swift movement, the Operator put the nearest hostile in her irons and squeezed the trigger, two quick, sharp pulls. The rifle kicked her shoulder, blue muzzle flash lighting up the corridor, the harsh crack of plasma fire hammering at her ears.

Not the name of the soldier in question, and it's an unrealistic scenario because no SOG Operator goes it alone, but you should get an idea of how I'm handling it.

One man who read an earlier version gave up on the first chapter, and said it was too long for him.

Then there's another story I haven't started work on yet, specially requested by a few il/lit/erates Luna Lovegood becomes a succubus and hilarity does not ensue.

The tripfriend Onionring is itching to see it, but I haven't even begun. I plan on starting work after I'm done with my story about the schoolteacher.

HELLO DON'T IGNORE ME

>>966877
whywouldyoudothat.jpg

3 chaptersss...

about 75%

Its my first, can i get some tips?

>>966863
>lactation

>>966894

>my face when you were unable to broaden your sexual horizons

>>966863
>first story is about lactation and bondage
Not really literary... but even the worst eroge general sells.
>The second story is set in historical France. It deals with an assassin from Eastern Europe, specifically, the Transylvanian area. We follow them as they infiltrate a city, gather information about their mark, observe their mark, and eventually go in for the kill. It's at 2,900 words.
Assasins creed rip, but not a terrible premise.
>The last story is fanfiction and deals with a multi-national joint task force deployed into a hostile zone
How is this fanfiction? Eh, I have a soft spot for millitaria so I can't really complain. Data-dumps work considering that your target audience is probably millitary buffs anyways.

Not bad, I guess the real deal is in how you execute them really

>>966838

>>966913

>Assasins creed rip,

It sounds like it, yeah.

But there are no roof-running escapades, no hidden blades, no nonsensical Templars Vs. Assassins backstory. Just straight up espionage and infiltration.

In fact, the assassin does not use a blade at all. I preferred to take a purist approach to that sort of thing.

>>966917
>Didn'tneedtohearthat.png
Oh, but you did

>>966883
Herro
Goodbye

>>966897
Not much I can say, kiddo. WRITE MOAR, WRITE DRAMATIC, and USE A THESAURUS

HEY !UyhAEqbnp.

what do you mean "goodbye"

>>966930
Well, thats an improvement

>>966938
What do you mean by asking what I mean by saying goodbye?

Ive been going over the 5 million ideas that Ive accumulated over time and mostly been trying to write in the vain hope that eventually one of them will make sense.

The idea Im running with now is about this guy in a mental hospital that makes these really weird paintings that turn out to be paintings of other dimension. These is kind of useless until the other dimensions start to slowly "bleed though" into ours.

Yeah....

i mean what do you mean by goodbye i am right here and still in your thread anyways and you never answered my question are you going to post it on here or what i mean poster of the year 2010 depends on this depends on you

>>966943

Another thing:

However un-lit it may be, I've been writing short erotic stories for a while. I've built up an entire collection of resources for it, and have made contact with various associations catering to Ero-lit readers and writers, such as http://www.erotica-readers.com/

I enjoyed a period of infamy on another board in 4chan when I used to post my sex stories there as soon as I churned them out.

I would do so in /lit/, but my stories have more sex than Objectivism in them, so the /lit/izens might just read Rand instead.

>>966949
That sounds like a creepypasta I once read.

>>966961
Eh, do what you wish. We used to get moderately well-recieved stories from some rabid masterbator all the time, so I don't see why /lit/ would be totally against such things

>>966955
What has Yellow Skin, and writes?

>>966962
reminds me of super mario 64

I just opened the Word window and have no idea how to begin.

Feels bad, man.

>>966931
Wait a sec... You can't even catch a squirrel properly. How do you expect to keep my mom?

>>966987
You could start by writing an outline.

>>966987

>Get idea

>put idea into words

>???

>profit

>>966984
that murakami guy??

I'm writing a short story about a character who is an amalgamation of /lit/ tripfags. I'm going to call it The Sorrows of Young Derper.

Man, fuck.

Fuck.

I was working on this one novel and then I just fucking lost all drive to do it. Then I tried another one and realized I suck at writing. Then I brainstormed another one, and realized my ideas are getting worse and worse.

Like, I used to have these really great ideas for sprawling postmodern epics, and my prose was really good, I mean I needed work, but shit, I liked what I wrote.

Now my ideas are just getting worse and more generic and cliche and meaningless and my prose is bland and, well, prosaic. Not to mention clumsy and high school- sounding.

Fuck me.

My only real dream since I was a kid was to be a writer, to be a great novelist. But now I feel like my best bet is to just give up, I feel like I'm not meant to be a writer. I've only ever published one story and that was in high school and since then I haven't even FINISHED anything.

Fuck.

Fuck me.

Fuck.

A BALL-POINT BANANA

>>967001

/lit/'s next masterpiece, ala The Penis Was?

I think so.

>>966989
I but I won't have to catch her for long if I skin her alive and wrap her flesh around one of my junkyard people, now will I?

>>967007
A BALL-POINT BANANA
GET IT? A BALLL POINT BANANNNAANA

>>967001
For some time, I intended to write a stageplay titled "Newfag!" with something along those lines. Never panned out because I was distracted

>>967017
OH GODDAMNIT YOU GOOGLED THAT YOU ASSHOLE AGRHGRHGRHAGRHGH
/back to the bat-cave

hey i think you missed my post by like 10 numbers

lol ok that is much better

another one of these threads

>>967039
>your face after realizing I intend to make a thread every night on days when I write

>>967015
Maybe this is a stupid response, but prehaps you should just go back to the first one you gave up?

JoGo for riddler in 3rd batman film

Today was very productive. I worked and finally got done with the history time line for my setting. Now I can get to work on making an actual plot outline.

This will be the best thing I've ever written.

>>967028
Okay, now we're stepping on you.

>>967077
Not when the giant is doing art, you're not

>>967117
Fine, but, soon as he's done with your "arts and crafts", we're pummeling you!

>>967058
ummmm.....Jim Carey was the riddler in the 3rd batman movie

>>967187
He means the sequel to The Dark Knight, not the sequel to Batman Returns, bro.

>>967197
lol i knew what he meant

JUST GO WRITE
DON'T POST ABOUT WHAT YOU DID OR DID NOT DO ON /lit/

You see this picture OP??

That's how it's fucking going

So... Where the fuck is Carl Sagan in this thread? And how does /lit/ let this >>966762
>>966726 faggot take the control of the thread?

>>967232
Professional author here - this namefag has the right of it.

>>967257
>>implying there is anything to kill

>>967257
I would like to second that....

My face when I saw another thread by some writer wanting to discuss their personal writing.

LIT IS ABOUT PUBLISHED BOOKS.

>>967257
Yes the one thread with writerfags is killing /lit/,
not the endless shit threads by summerfags.

>>967268
>implying he didn't create the thread

BUMP