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So, authors of /lit/, how far have you gotten on your novel since all this social distancing hubbub?
I wrote 18 pages yesterday and I'll probably write another 12-15 today. My MC has discovered his hidden power, gotten in trouble with the powers that be, and has just been saved from death at great cost and his life is changed forever. I'm about to introduce the main antagonist today and set up the larger plot of this volume.

>> No.14977365

Being gay isn't a power.

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>>14977360
I've read a handful of books and wrote a chorus to a song. I haven't written anything because I keep going into the cynical cycle that I will never create something unique, I am on the shoulders of giants without any originality, even the idea I am typing out now isn't original. How can I create anything that isn't just a regurgitation of something I've consumed before? It's not like a manifesto or a the handful of novel's I've started will be good/successful/interesting.

A lot like when writing music, I find it hard to go back to a previous project that I had given up on. I have about 3 different stories, each of them about 40 pages in, and I just can't.

>> No.14977464

>>14977365
Homosexuality is not his superpower. In fact MC is confirmed heterosexual by the middle of sentence four.

His special magic is specifically to do with children, which makes everyone assume he's a pedo even though he hates children and wants nothing to do with him. The point of the book is to humorously and ironically fuck with the MC with prejudice and bureaucratic stupidity.

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>>14977394
Who cares if what you write is derivative and unoriginal? Most stuff is. Personally, I'm writing because I have this idea in my head that I'd want to read, that I do want to read, because I think it's funny and I enjoy fantasy worldbuilding.

My book is probably going to be trash when I finish it, but no more so than any other self-published book or comic you'd see at Comic-Con. In my opinion, the bar is low and I only have to overcome my own laziness to write rather than fuck around on 4chan all day.