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[Anonymous No.16623732]

how's your novel coming along /lit/?

[Anonymous No.16623759]

>>16623732
Good! I'm really proud of myself! For the first time, I'm actually hopeful that I'll finish a story. I'm taking it slow, and setting my daily goal at about 200 words, though I often write more.

[Anonymous No.16624385]

>>16623732
Finished it today. It's short but happy with it. Time to plug on with the next one. Jungle adventure theme.

[Anonymous No.16624636]

It's going alright. I finished 5 this past year, and I'm working on marketing them now. I hope I can write a few more this year.

[Anonymous No.16624658]

>>16623732
We have a general but I'm doing good, working on comedy writing then I'll try and translate that into prose (wrote my first joke using the format of the book I'm reading today). After comedy I'll try characterization then might start a novel.

[Anonymous No.16624817]

Very slow, I need my library to reopen so I can go through the local studies section.

[Anonymous No.16624863]

>>16624385
>Time to plug on with the next one. Jungle adventure theme.
based

[Anonymous No.16624893]

>>16624385
Make sure to link it. I love jungle expiditions.

[Anonymous No.16624897]

>>16623732
After a massive writing spree all last year, I've slowly come to a halt. After realizing the only thing I'm good at writing is shitty genre fiction, and that my works will likely never have artistic merit, I've lost motivation to sit down every day and write.

[Anonymous No.16624913]

>>16624897
Examine what traits you want to add or change or develop and read secondary on it and write flash fiction to practice it.

[Anonymous No.16624931]

>>16624897
or own it.
if you can write an entertaining story, don't let the /lit/ autism convince you it's worthless. A good, fun, genre fic is perfectly fine.

[Anonymous No.16624970]

>>16624931
I have not yet examined why I want to write a work of art so badly. I don't blame /lit/ - a good story is a good story. I have other meaningful things besides writing in my life. I guess I'm just wondering if any anons have felt the same.

[Anonymous No.16624982]

>>16620782
>>16620782
>>16620782
tip 4 you next time, search for /wg/ in the catalog

[Anonymous No.16624984]

>>16624970
Not him but for me before I started studying it more. Was hoping natural talent would bring me across the finish line

[Anonymous No.16625006]

>>16624984
That's what I'm in the process of doing right now. I'm still young, only 26. I'm in no rush. Just working through all the classics and the greats. Really analyzing each one and digesting them.

[Anonymous No.16625113]

>>16624897
There's no reason a genre fiction piece can't have artistic merit, and even if it doesn't, who cares?

[Anonymous No.16625136]

>>16625113
this, wouldn't The Count of Monte Cristo be considered genre fiction when it was released? And some even accuse Dostoevsky of being a cheap thriller writer (I think Nabokov thought this)

[Anonymous No.16625195]

>>16624863
>>16624893
Thanks

[Anonymous No.16625772]

I hate writing. I'm only 760 words into my erotic short story and I feel overwhelmed. Like, my current idea isn't massive for anything, but I more I think about it the more I feel like I'll have to write 20 pages of material to make it work, and I not sure if I'm up for that right now. This is just supposed to be for fun.

[Anonymous No.16625786]

>>16625772
Stop thinking about it so much and write something you find amusing, like a short scene. I know that's harder than it sounds and the best way to get there is to keep writing.

[Anonymous No.16625838]

>>16623732

Quite fine, thanks for asking!

It's gonna be around 70k words (65k+ now) and all i have left to write is the final stop of the MC before he travels by canoe to where the final chapter is set.

How's yours?

[Anonymous No.16626001]

>>16625786
Thanks. I'm trying to do it in chunks, writing bullet points for the characters down so I don't have to remember so many traits to incorporate down the line. My brain doesn't work well out of sequence though, so I need to write each part in order.

[Anonymous No.16626044]

I made big progress this week. I realized, fortunately early enough, that it's better for the two main characters to be brothers and not friends. I'll have to start it from scratch again for their backgrounds, but I can still use some key scenes with minor changes. It's 20k words up to now. WE ARE ALL GONNA MAKE IT, BROS!

[Anonymous No.16626642]

I just started to make my foray into creative writing once again.

I recently finished my second edit of my first book. Not entirely happy with it, but might seek an editor, after I get some feedback from a few close friends of mine who decided to engage with it.

Working on a second project now.

My work tends to focus on darker themes. Not sure why I keep gravitating toward them, but they are the most engaging for me.

The first is horror fiction, the second is a transgressive drama anthology.

[Anonymous No.16626678]

>>16626642
How long has it been since your first edit of your previous book?

[Anonymous No.16626755]

>>16625195
Those Del Rey collections rule. Is REH an influence?

[Anonymous No.16626871]

I destroyed 60k words two weeks ago. I was writing this novella for the past 15 months but I loathed it so much that I couldn't edit it. The writing life isn't for me.

[Anonymous No.16626937]

>>16626871
This is why we have editors; because reading your own writing is a nightmare.

[Anonymous No.16626971]

>>16626678
I did the first edit about two weeks ago, reading through it in fine dat all, then reading it again for pacing.

Then I just finished the second edit two days ago.

I think it needs some time to sit, lest I lose my mind from staying in the same headspace for too long.

[Anonymous No.16626997]

>>16626971

Yeah, you need to take a break. If you're going to edit it yourself, you'll drive yourself mad, unless you rest. Do something entirely unrelated, and return to it with a fresh mind.

[Anonymous No.16627447]

>>16626997
Thanks senpai, I appreciate the advice. You working on anything at the moment?

[Anonymous No.16627559]

are there any people here who write something other than
>classics fanfic
>scifi/horror
>erotica
>variations on 'angry young man in clown world'

?

[Anonymous No.16627632]

>>16627447
A little bit, here and there. I'm mostly working on marketing strategies for my finished books, as of late.

[Anonymous No.16627682]

>>16627559
I'm writing neo-western thriller script rightnow, I'm in the early writing and already feel like i ripped The Judge too much without realizing lol

[Anonymous No.16627735]

>>16623732
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-BfjHbHj60

[Anonymous No.16627748]

>>16623732
I'm holding off until November to start it. Currently caught between dystopia and fantasy genres