/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20032547]

How's the writing career coming, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.20032553]

>>20032547

[Anonymous No.20032559]

>>20032547
Not great.

>>20032433

I really hope they don't call my mom.

[Anonymous No.20032728]

I need a place to serialize my novel that isn't Royal Road, Wattpad, or Kindle Vella. Some place that isn't retarded, in other words.

[Anonymous No.20033049]

>>20032547
Pretty good, thanks for asking. I'm a professional editor and proofreader now, which is almost close enough to constitute an actual writing career.

[Anonymous No.20033705]

>>20033049
Gj anon

[Anonymous No.20033714]

>>20032547
been "working" on the same book for over 15 years now.
havent added anything new in the past 3.
its a generic fantasy story anyways

[Anonymous No.20033716]

>>20032728
this also
i went to royal road for the first time yesterday
jesus crimminey christ the shit with 1M+ views was some of the worst writing i've ever seen, no exaggeration

[Anonymous No.20033725]

>>20033714
I believe you can do it anon.
Don't ever stop writing, no matter what.

[Anonymous No.20033750]

>>20033714
read acomfy book for an hour or so, plug in your keyboard, and then fire up notepad.exe. you'll get into it again if you do this enough

[Anonymous No.20033751]

>>20033750
why would your keyboard be plugged out?

[Anonymous No.20033770]

>>20032547
Trying to make an Incel counter to all feminist philosophy, from epistemology to metaphysics to economics to international relations to sociology to historiography and theological counters. I'm doing ok.

[Anonymous No.20033776]

Not great. I've been writing a novel since about 2014, and am finishing its final part now.
But, as we know, being an accursed SWM means a vast majority of publishers want nothing to do with you, and only if you've written about the BIPOC struggle and the dangers of white supremecy, which I haven't.
So I've been thinking about self publishing, but that seems like such a waste of my time...
It's rather disheartening.

[Anonymous No.20033779]

>>20033751
guess my brain isn't plugged in either after re-reading my post

[Anonymous No.20033789]

it is so far okay

[Anonymous No.20033794]

>>20032547
I'm short listed for the Passage Prize so that's exciting

[Anonymous No.20033805]

>>20033770
Are you joking? If you're serious, then you seriously need to consider treating your internet addiction before things get bad, anon.

[Anonymous No.20033806]

>>20033789
What's it about
>>20033794
What's it about

[Anonymous No.20033809]

>>20033805
I've been online for roughly 26 years. and not I'm not joking, headass.

[Anonymous No.20033818]

>>20033809
Sometimes I shudder to think about what porcine beast is wasting away on the other side of these screens...
I'm sorry things didn't go quite so well for you.

[Anonymous No.20033833]

>>20033794
you cocksucker
i didnt get in despite writing fucking gold
those assholes increasing the deadline at the last minute really pissed me off, since I had it done 2 weeks in advance

[Anonymous No.20033838]

>>20033833
Big contests like that usually are slogged with entries. Most entries just sit, never to be read by anyone.

[Anonymous No.20033840]

>>20033833
they extended the deadline - no?

[Anonymous No.20033854]

>>20033840
yes and they didnt need to
just because some fags were whining
it made the odds worse

[Anonymous No.20033856]

>>20032547
Almost done with chapter 1 of my lite fantasy epic
Kinda stagnated on this podcast comedy show I’m writing though

[Anonymous No.20033880]

>>20033806
re: eggplant
one storyline follows an art critic who takes a job to go to a secret island and interview a murder-artist, but then gets trapped there and finds out they have blood rituals/orgies, and has to escape.
The other storyline follows a computer nerd who becomes disconnected, makes his own hallucinogens and starts wandering around SEA, before getting ‘abducted’ by a terrorist mycologist and coerced into making a killer fungus to kill the people on the artist island

[Anonymous No.20033886]

>>20033818
Its not even that, for the last 50 years feminism has stunk up the humanities departments of almost every academic institution. Some pushback is welcome. I know you're a tranny who wants psychoanalyse me (that's ironic in and of itself) but now is not the petulant. I've got a job to do.

[Anonymous No.20033899]

>>20033886
>"now is not the petulant"
meant to say "now its not the time for your petulant whining"
your post annoyed me enough my thought process got interrupted

[Anonymous No.20033925]

>>20033886
>>20033899
Take your meds.

[Anonymous No.20033930]

>>20033925
psychiatry is literally a pseudoscience

[Anonymous No.20033939]

>>20033930
BAAAASED

Pyschiatry as urology be like "The other day I went to my doctor to complain about peeing too much and saying that most days peeing was also really hard. At any rate, they gave me some pills to relax my bladder. What? No they didn't do any scans or check my urine in the lab. Why would they?"

[Anonymous No.20033940]

>>20033930
Alright. Continue browsing 4chan and writing your incel manifesto, then.

[Anonymous No.20033942]

>20033940
"Ok" "Sure" here's your "you"

[Anonymous No.20033957]

>>20033854
Sorry man. If it helps at all I've been writing as my main hobby for the last 8 years so you're also going up against people who have nothing else going on in their lives.

[Anonymous No.20033968]

>>20033957
does a bit
good luck anyway

[Anonymous No.20033977]

Just published my second full length novel on Amazon. The first one sold about 3 copies. I hope this one does better.

[Anonymous No.20033981]

>>20033968
I'm glad. I've been rejected before and the existential dread is unfortunately too real. They are doing another one coming up, so that'll be exciting.

[Anonymous No.20033988]

>>20033981
frankly i was somewhat reticent to let a hack like lovecraft rate my work after reading his substack stories that steal entire lines and mannerism out of infinite jest....

[Anonymous No.20034002]

>>20033988
No point in insulting people friend. Just forgive and move on.

[Anonymous No.20034024]

>>20034002
lol sorry

[Anonymous No.20034041]

>>20033880
Sounds like fun. I can't tell if there's supposed to be a message but I hope the author made a good name for himself

[Anonymous No.20034293]

>>20033716
>>20032728
I actually spent a month on that website, actively networking, review swapping etc, pretending to read trash written by 15 year olds and trash stories and acting like it was good. My final outcome: RR, Webnovel and all such sites are actually structured like fucking MLMs, where jus the authors read every other author's work and jerk each other off till they make it at the top hundreds, at which point the algorithm pushes them to the smoothbrains that actually read these stories. it is an absolute waste of time and you are literally better off putting stuff up blind on Kindle and hoping for the best.

>>20032547
I realized I spent almost 20 years of my life working toward it, making all my bucket list goals only to realize it wasn't fucking worth it and that I just want people to read my stuff for my dopamine hits.

[Anonymous No.20034386]

>>20033981
>existential dread for not winning a fucking contest

Just who the hell do you think you are? Getting rejected ain't shit.

[Anonymous No.20034394]

>>20034293
>takes him nearly two decades to figure out "ouu i get attention and brain juice go brrr"

Yeah, I'm sure everyone would absolutely love to read a novel that came from such a mind.

[Anonymous No.20034419]

>>20033794
Oh, I was kinda impressed, then I looked it up and saw that it's some cringe af "THIS ISN'T YOUR MOTHER'S PUBLICATION" vibes. Like whoaa, yeah, the internet exists, scaaarrrryyyyyyyyy.
You'd think the webpage would also have a sick graffiti font on a brick background, complete with sick action shots of skaters getting seriously gnarly.

[Anonymous No.20034424]

>>20032728
>>20033716
Never going to make it since you two sound like pseuds.

[Anonymous No.20034451]

>>20033977
Titles? I’ll check them out, but no promise I’ll buy.

[Anonymous No.20034466]

>>20034394
Re read what I said until you inderstand it. I didn't say I figured out how dopamine works. I said I did it professionally realized that doing it was a wadte of time to now I am just doing it for the dopamine.

Anyway here is your (you)

[Anonymous No.20034518]

>>20034386
good question
>>20034419
nice man - what else don't you like?

[Anonymous No.20034519]

>>20034466
You sound like a stupid faggot nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.20034526]

>>20034518
I don't like faggy Web 3.0 spergs who larp as cyberpunk bad boys. I bet they do cool shit like ketamine.

[Anonymous No.20034536]

>>20034526
https://www.platonicfoundation.org/sophist/

[Anonymous No.20034546]

>>20034536
Doesn't change the fact that alt Twitter lit is for dorks and fags.

[Anonymous No.20034894]

>>20033770
Yes women are pragmatic and selfish but so are men. Cmon bro you wouldn't be giving up your pussy for free if you were in their position. Do you expect the better educated and wealthier whites to make reparations for blacks, or believe in Affirmative Action? I doubt it.
If anything blame nature or God. In some ways you sound like a feminist yourself in that you refuse to walk off your tile of self-victimization and take responsibility for fulfilling or coming to terms with your desires. You're intelligent and good at something, so you can probably figure out how to get laid and live a more contented life.
Lying supine, resignation, finger pointing is the easiest thing in the world.

[Anonymous No.20034938]

>>20032547
I started writing a new fantasy novel last week, now wrapping up the first chapter. However, I can't help but see writing as useless, I love it - but I think of all the millions of other people who aspire to be writers, publish, and their shit gets bought while my equally as uninspired fantasy will sell nothing. My heart is in it, but my brain is not. Hard to not be blackpilled about it bros. Will just do what I should be doing, and that is writing entirely for myself.

[Anonymous No.20034946]

>>20032547
Sa far, so good

[Anonymous No.20034966]

>>20034938
>My heart is in it, but my brain is not.
You should stop writing

[Anonymous No.20035555]

>>20032547
I'm going to kill myself soon

[Anonymous No.20035652]

>>20035555
In two years you'll be the most famous author of all time

[Anonymous No.20035733]

>>20034526
LMAO the poetry judge is Moldbug.
WHAaaaaat?

[Anonymous No.20035743]

>>20032728
>Doesn't want easy money
Ngmi

[Anonymous No.20035756]

>>20032547
Tried, my dreams got crushed by reality and turned into an engineer. I actually regret not keeping up with it but at least i have enough to eat every day.

[Anonymous No.20035873]

god why do you faggots have to be so demoralizing? We literally have the entire industry against us and we can't even help each other

[Anonymous No.20036552]

>>20035756
Get on my level nigga. I am an engineer full time and I write in my spare.

[Anonymous No.20036617]

I'm working on the third book of my big story right now. Still trying to figure out what to do with the first book. I may self-publish it, but I'd like to try getting it more attention, first.

The domain name of the story's overall title is actually for sale. I'd considered buying it and hosting the story there, releasing it in installments. The trouble is that they're asking $15,000 for it, and I don't have that kind of money.

[Anonymous No.20036715]

>>20036617
They're being Jews. Just host for like $60 on WordPress.

[Anonymous No.20036724]

>>20032547
just gonna self publish and voice my own audiobook on my youtube channel

[Anonymous No.20036765]

>>20032547
been working on my book in my downtime. got some short stories done, gonna start sending it out to smaller publishers hopefully late this year/early next. Seriously expecting to be denied by a litany of them, but would rather fail as a real writer than self publish.

just keep chipping away at it bros, we all have the potential for greatness, its just a matter of expressing it properly.

we're all going to make it.

[Anonymous No.20036798]

I've began to write my first and self declared mangnum opus for the 4th time.
I cant find a "Style" to fit what I want and I feel as though a comic would be better but between my lacking art skills and the stricter rules of the comic industry a novel would be the best option.
I stress about it a lot since I've wrote Ten's of thousands of words just to scrap it and move to a new draft.
I have the story written out in the most basic form of
>A Performs this action which results in B so Team C must now go to A and aid him in his struggle to fix the consequences of B
Just a couple pages of outline which I'm filling the blanks for in the novel. I also cant decide what I want it to be a few large books written like a classic Epic fantasy, Or more pulp like fantasy with a couple dozen 300 page volumes.
It took Tolkien 12 years to write the LOTR and many drafts so I'm not super worried about it but I don't want to spend 30 years on the story and by the time It's over I've only completed the first tale of the 5 I have planned out for the larger story. The idea of the setting was what Middle earth or Hyperborea would be like in modern day. Here's the main stories
>Modern Day Scavenger Hunt across the world with Politics and low powered magic
>80's themed prequel adventure with magical people destroying cities and mountain ranges with fights and overall more like an older greekroman legend
>Early age of human colonization in space and a retired bandit accepts one last job from an old friend which turns out to be his biggest
>As the universe falls apart thousands of years in the future the child of light is born in a remote galaxy and must be brought by a 3 man team of under qualified men to the center of the universe where the government will take him in
>The child of Light has aged into an adult without knowing his purpose and sees the horrors of humanity and after a long internal debate decides he must be the one to restart humanity and wipe the slate clean

[Anonymous No.20037929]

>>20033789
Is this your book? I'm tempted to buy a copy and review it on Amazon in my next book buy binge.

[Anonymous No.20038651]

>>20035743
redpill me on how to make easy money on those platforms

[Anonymous No.20040135]

>>20038651
anon, anybody who uses “easy money” and “writing” in the same sentence has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about