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Anonymous Sat Jan 5 12:19:15 2019 No.12349532 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw writing first draft and it started transforming into an anime tier sappy romance novel

how do i save it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 12:20:53 2019 No.12349536 Take a break for a few days or write something else like flash fiction or poetry. Come back and give the last few pages a rigorous edit, then go in balls deep again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:00:54 2019 No.12349749 >>12349532 Kill someone off

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:02:26 2019 No.12349754 Append a 60-page ideological rant about the meaning of existence

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:10:37 2019 No.12349790 Finish it, get it published by a light novel company and when it's a bestseller go all in on an anime adaptation, then profit from the merchandising opportunities.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:12:54 2019 No.12349799 >>12349790 This, except actually don’t.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:12:55 2019 No.12349800 Have her leave him for a rich guy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:16:02 2019 No.12349816 >>12349532 This is why you outline

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:20:03 2019 No.12349835 Have her fuck someone else.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 13:22:33 2019 No.12349852 >>12349532 You don’t, you finish the draft and make subsequent drafts less bad, as nauseam

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 17:27:21 2019 No.12351327 >>12349532 Finish it to the best of your ability and try to get it published in order to get some experience e and reputation, so that your next book will be much better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 17:29:19 2019 No.12351339 Literally just deconstruct your own story and turn it into the opposite of what it is now, bro

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 17:30:22 2019 No.12351352 File: 3.86 MB, 430x440, tenor.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12349532 Experience a real romance first you have something to base it on other than fiction.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 20:01:42 2019 No.12352381 >>12349532 Stop watching anime. It's influencing your mind.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 21:40:39 2019 No.12353078 >>12352381 >influencing *rotting

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 5 23:50:44 2019 No.12353809 What did you initially plan on it being then?

Anonymous Sun Jan 6 03:42:14 2019 No.12354672
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>>12349532
Follow through.
Revise so it's not as cringe.
Add back the elements you planned on including.
Revise again so things mesh.
Revise one last time for continuity, theme, and prose.

You can do it anon.

t. in a similar predicament, but getting out of it

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