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So what are you writing, /lit/? Or rather what do you want to write?

For me, I was thinking of writing some YA novels, if only so I can break-in and get a name for myself.

What about you? What are you doing?

>> No.14052190

Getting older and giving up.

I make good money as a business copywriter, and I guess that’s my life now.

>> No.14052239
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>>14052182
I wanna write a new philosophical ideology. I don't care if it gets published or not. I need it for myself. The basic main idea is that everyone should create their own philosophy. I posted about it on /lit/ to mixed reception.

>> No.14052275

Mostly just "kill yourself" in random notebooks at work.

>> No.14052316

brace yourselves. its election time and the hired are typing up a storm. dont get bogged /lit/, i know there are true souls in this place.

>> No.14052347
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>>14052182
Currently writing a Y.A novel that I've been working on for a year.

My biggest contentious is the Narration. Since its a First Person point of view, I need to find a sweet spot, or at the very least, close to it. More difficult than I imagine. And I'm started to think I just don't have what it takes.

The second problem, is where do I Begin/Start. I have written multiple first chapters in the hopes to find my footing to no avail. I'm at the point that I'm just going to write the second and third act before the first. And just wing it. Something I am reluctant to do, since it might create a disconnect in the later chapters.

Do you guys have any advice? I will appreciate it.

>> No.14052349

I had my first original idea for a story. Two families of pilgrims that came to America when it was starting (for white people), through some event one family becomes rich and the other poor (maybe a bad business deal or something). The rest of the book is glimpses into the families up until the present day. A chapter about a rich family and poor family in 1800, 1850,1900,1950,2000,2015, or something like that. The families are intertwined from the original event but one is rich and one is poor. I know this needs more fleshing out but it's the start.

>> No.14052364

>>14052349
Also I was thinking of writing the story with the language/grammar of the time period it is set in as kind of a gimmick. Each chapter, or act, would be written like it was from that time period.

>> No.14052432

A book where every single paragraph has its own unique title.

>> No.14052941

>>14052432
Sounds like it would be repetitive.

>> No.14053817

>>14052182
I keep updating my journal and plans for the future.

>> No.14053874

>>14052239
Just curious why would a book that is both extremely formally proficient and thematically interesting not be worth reading?

>> No.14053881

>>14053874
It would be beyond the line

>> No.14053894

>>14053881
Yes but what justifies the line?

>> No.14053897

>>14053881
Oh I see the line is the threshold, only things beyond it are worth reading?

>> No.14054223

>>14052182
A novella about an obese NEET that catches AIDS from a gay nigger. It's written following the stream of memories of the main character, like "In search of lost time" but more schizo and with dick jokes. Also, a lot of footnotes.

>> No.14054247

>>14054223
Ah, so it was you who stole my diary desu

>> No.14054272
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I'm currently writing a fantasy romance novel about two twenty somethings, a knight and a tsundere warrior princess, teaming up to save the world from an evil wizard. There's lots of snarky banter and they act like they can't stand each other, but they gradually fall for one another. There's a lost of blushing and hand holding

>> No.14055903

>>14054272
It sounds like something I would enjoy to read if your sample is something to go by. Hope it goes well.

>> No.14055922

I’m working on the great American coal miner novel

>> No.14056657

>>14055922
What's it about?

>> No.14057166

>>14052432
madman!

>> No.14057615

>>14056657
Coal miner is forced to bring his younger son to work in the mines with him after his wife dies from the Spanish Flu, while his eldest son is fighting in the trenches in the last year of WWI.

>> No.14057624

>>14057615
Is it set in America, or in Europe?

>> No.14057629

>>14057624
America, in Pennsylvania

>> No.14057843

>>14052182
An absurdist story about a man that lives in a bubble due to his poor immunity who sees a famous ballerina murdered in the alleyway next to his apartment. A teenage boy that gets wrongfully accused and put on death row. And the murder himself.

The story's about the bubble boy using a "proxy" he finds on craigslist to discover the real culprit. The perspective of the killer himself, a schizophrenic that kills the homeless and writes deranged short stories about their lives. And the boy on death row and his conversations with his family, their suspicions and the hate they recieve by the media. It's all written in the style of magical realism with a poetic prose style. I'm about a third finished.

>> No.14058469

>>14052347
>My biggest contentious is the Narration. Since its a First Person point of view, I need to find a sweet spot, or at the very least, close to it. More difficult than I imagine. And I'm started to think I just don't have what it takes.
I never understood why people find narration so difficult in the first place? Especially since this is a First-person point of View? Shouldn't it come easy?

Can you guys shed some light?

>> No.14058496

>>14053881
For you

>> No.14058810

>>14058469
>I never understood why people find narration so difficult in the first place? Especially since this is a First-person point of View? Shouldn't it come easy?
Well, I don't know about the rest of /lit/, but for me, it's coming rather difficult, more than I imagine. I got the voice but not the narration. And I don't know what to do. It doesn't help that I have to establish it early on. Since it will set the novel.

>> No.14058817

>>14058810
What are you writing? Can't be a Y.A novel since you are putting to much effort into it.

>> No.14058835

>>14058817
>What are you writing? Can't be a Y.A novel since you are putting to much effort into it.

It's a Y.A novel as I said before. I'm just trying to use it as a springboard, for my writing career. Given how shitty Y.A Novels generally are, it shouldn't be that difficult.

>> No.14058846

>>14058835
You have to know the genre very well to have any success in YA. If you're not writing exactly what the market wants at that exact moment you're going to sell exactly zero copies.

>> No.14058855

>>14058846
Not him, but have you read Y.A novels? They are the same repetitive shit, rehash ad infinitum. Rarely do they break the mold.

>> No.14058857

>>14058855
That doesn't mean you can just write whatever and become famous

>> No.14058866

>>14058857
No, but anything he, or anyone for that matter who gives a damn, can make it infinitely better than it currently is.

>> No.14058979

>>14052349
>>14052364
Ngl it sounds like one of those ideas that sounds good in your head but on paper become trite and sort of cliche. Even I had a similar idea back when I was starting to get into writing and I thought it would be brilliant. Down to the language gimmick too. But here's the thing I know you're most probably a better writer than I am so I think you could make it work. Good luck

>> No.14059186

>>14052182
Hey, is saying Spanish words in your novel allowed?

I have a scene in the novel where they eat at a Mexican restaurant and I want to know if I should name the foods and drink in Spanish.

>> No.14059460

>>14059186
Yes, it’s a-ok. Foreign words are usually italicized too.

>> No.14059472

>>14059460
>Foreign words are usually italicized too.
Even if it's something basic like Torta or Aguas Frescas

>> No.14060536

>>14054272
Sounds like a comfy read