Official NaNoWriMo /general/

[Anonymous No.21197062]

It's that time of year again boys, tomorrow!

Are you ready to write a 50,000 word book in 30 days? This extreme exercise begins on November 1st and ends at midnight of November 30th. It doesn't matter whether you want to write a novel or some short stories so long as you write 50k words during the month of November.

>https://discord.gg/7ha98XCW
Invite to the official 4chan NaNo Discord. Join for casual writing talk, stay for the familiar 4chan autism.

Use this thread to discuss ideas, ask questions, and tell us it's not possible to write anything worth reading in 30 days.

[Anonymous No.21197117]

>more than 1 word per minute
Literally impossible.

[Anonymous No.21197417]

>>21197062
yes. I'm finally going to write a book this time.

[Anonymous No.21197427]

>>21197062
Do you guys actually post to the site or just gauge yourself?

[Anonymous No.21197438]

>>21197117
Most people can POMP up those numbers if they are bogpilled

[Anonymous No.21197445]

>>21197062
Reminder that 50k words isn't a marketable novel so the best you could realistically do (if you take yourself seriously) is a too-short first draft.

[Anonymous No.21197485]

>>21197445
If you're a name you can do what you want, as always. And if you're a strong enough writer you can probably do what you want as well. But yeah, it will significantly reduce your chances if your first novel is 50k. I've seen some agents who say they won't accept that length at all, usually with some sort of provocative remark like "50,000 words isn't a novel". Probably as a defense mechanism against the flood of NaNoWriMo retards who think 50k is sufficient as a general rule and not as an exception to the rule in the case of high quality.

[Anonymous No.21197543]

>>21197445
Mines a novella which will be optioned into a film anyway.
90 minutes is proper film length.

[Anonymous No.21197559]

>>21197062
>i started
>I haven't wrote a single word to my story

[Anonymous No.21197560]

>>21197559
Start your story with "I started"

[Anonymous No.21197563]

>>21197485
>>21197445
Yet, some of the greatest classics are 50k...

The problem is Fantasy tomes that is the norm now. With 20k worth of sex scenes in a book filled with 50k filler, 20k sex scenes, 10k plot, and 30k action, and 50k of exposition.

[Anonymous No.21197568]

>>21197563
What's the ideal ratio to you?

[Anonymous No.21197579]

>>21197568
I'm starting to want to shift towards 60k words, or about 200 ~ 250 pages. Get through stories quickly and move on to the next one.

I'm reading Shadow of the Gods by Gwyne, and holy shit man I'm 176 pages in and the plot finally started. I could have finished Heart of Darkness and Mice and Men by then. And the latter are much better books.

[Anonymous No.21197713]

>>21197445
I just want to forge a consistent writing routine desu.
Might as well try to do it now

[Anonymous No.21197787]

>>21197062
I keep thinking I can write that much but I don't.
A story in the mind is a lot different from one on paper.

[Anonymous No.21198036]

>>21197062
Not joining your discord.

[Anonymous No.21198075]

>>21197062
I will write my first novel this month. It's been on the backburner since fucking June and I will not allow the year to turn without completing one little novel.

[Anonymous No.21198297]

>>21197062
Should we lost work here or in the discord?

[Anonymous No.21198534]

I’m not joining a discord but I’m in, good luck autists

[Anonymous No.21198617]

I want to start but I never feel ready enough. I'm an incredible outline fag that thinks he's going to die if he doesn't get every detail of world building and the lore right.

[Anonymous No.21198634]

>>21198617
The medicine for that is understanding that the otline must meet writing to be completed, not as in the story gets written, but that putting the lore and details into writing unfolds whether they actually work together. Outline and the story are a feedback loop that changes both.

[Anonymous No.21198645]

>>21198534
The discord is full of trannies and mentally ill people.

[Anonymous No.21198750]

>>21197062
OP there already was a NaNoWriMo thread. Now there are two.
Anyway, I guess it's on. This year for sure. I am going to crush it. I feel it in my veins.
>>21197427
I don't use the site at all.

[Anonymous No.21198884]

what about the book about the guy who falls in love with the angel of death and he kills people to get close to her and he eventually anheros to finally be with her and first half of the book is that and the second part is from the pov of a woman who had a crush on him but he didn't know, he thought he was forever alone incel, and the woman goes on a quest to save his soul from eternal damnation, doing rituals with ayahuasca, conversing with spirits and so on? Would you read that? I've started writing today

[Anonymous No.21198900]

>>21198884
I like it

[Anonymous No.21199021]

>>21198900
thanks man

[Anonymous No.21199030]

>>21198884
Isn’t the first part a subplot of Deadpool? Anyways, I think the entire premise is a little bit too edgy for me, but many would probably enjoy it

[Anonymous No.21199041]

>>21197062
Yes, but I'm cheating. I already have 20,000 words of a novel I'm working on.

I'm still gonna fail.

[Anonymous No.21199043]

>>21197062
>get up 6 in the morning
>have breakfast and drink coffee in the morning
>read for one hour
>finish the 1700 words of the first day
>it’s only 10:30 PM and I can now work on my job as well

Productive day :3. Just write, dudes and reading beforehand helps a lot.

[Anonymous No.21199049]

>>21199030
it's fucking thanos' backstory. death loves deadpool.

[Anonymous No.21199061]

>>21197445
mfs be like “let me tell you how to make a book that sells” and then literally have never written a book or sold one smdh

[Anonymous No.21199069]

>>21199049
I don’t read comics, it just got mentioned somewhere and I randomly remembered

[Anonymous No.21199090]

>>21199069
no, sorry, I was directing the fucking at the other anon, not you.

[Anonymous No.21199119]

>>21199030
>>21199049
i haven't seen deadpool and i don't know who thanos is

[Anonymous No.21199120]

>>21199061
This, I’d rather have written 100 50k novels.

[Anonymous No.21199127]

>>21199119
>i don't know who thanos is
you goddamn liar. everyone knows who thanos is whether they want to or not

[Anonymous No.21199225]

>trying to write
help

[Anonymous No.21199263]

>>21199127
without googling, no

[Anonymous No.21199280]

>>21199263
he was the main antagonist in endgame. they tried to make him an anti-hero or some bullshit

[Anonymous No.21199289]

>>21199280
i tried few mcu capeshits, i didn't like them, dropped them quickly and just didn't bother with the rest. Legion tv show is pretty kino tho.

[Anonymous No.21199304]

>>21199289
yeah, they suck, but they're everywhere, is my point. I actively avoid that shit and I still know that.

[Anonymous No.21199314]

>>21199225
>determine what you want to write
>outline a point-by-point list of what happens and in what order the events will be written
>write it
yw

[Anonymous No.21200411]

my opening:

>My name is Sneed Penis, owner of the Dimmsdale DimmaPenis. The Dimmsdale DimmaPenis is a DimmaPenis located in the city of Dimmsdale, my home city. A DimmaPenis is a creation of my own invention, which is somewhat like a DimmaDome, but instead of a mere Dome, it is constituted of a cylindrical shaped base supporting a upper Dome shape above. In this way, it is shaped like a Penis. It is also the future when i am writing this, And there is no negative connotation to saying the word Penis out loud and naming your structure after a Penis if it has a Penis shape, the name is merely a descriptor. There is nothing Vulgar about it. There is also nothing weird about my last name, which is also Penis. In the future this is a common surname among the people and there's nothing weird about it. I do not believe there is any correlation to my surname being Penis and me naming and shaping my structure after a Penis, but, in the grand scheme of things, one can never really say what subconcsious forces are at work. Perhaps my name (which is not uncommon or weird) has had an effect on my actions, or maybe this is merely an instance of coincidence. Many deep minds have asked this question for time immemorial. Does a name make a man, or does a man make a name? Does a Rose by any other Name smell as sweet? For me, my name is Sneed Penis, but you already knew that. Everyone in this city knows that name, because i am a great and powerful man. As for my first name, it was given to me by my father, who was my father and therefore had the right to name me. There is a bit of a story behind this first name which also ties in with my last name, which i will now endeavor to relay to you, dear reader. My father was born Charles Batman Ironman Sneed II, but everyone called him Chuck, so as not to confuse him with Charles Batman Ironman Sneed the first, his father and my grandfather.

let me know what you think

[Anonymous No.21200441]

>>21200411
Toot?

[Anonymous No.21201135]

>can't decide on a story to write
It's over. I might as well just write some generic story, maybe mileage is the best I can do.

[Anonymous No.21201900]

>>21197062
the discord invite link is invalid btw, it expired for me, can you make another one?

[Anonymous No.21201903]

>>21201135
Every great writer is a philosopher first. Your issue is that you have nothing to say

[Anonymous No.21201915]

>>21201900
You have completed your first 1,667 words, right?
https://discord.gg/UyVMtYrh

[Anonymous No.21201932]

>>21201903
You make a good point. I now have direction.

[Anonymous No.21201934]

>>21201932
Gl

[Anonymous No.21202019]

>>21201915
It's going to be dogwater generic derivative af but I'm sticking to it

[Anonymous No.21202250]

>>21199225
Don't be one of those who "waits for inspiration.". Write an outline, even if you're a pantser-type writer, and plan things out at a bare minimum. Also keep a list of things handy and close by that inspire your current project - such as music, movies, or other things in the genre - close at hand that you can look at when you need a creativity boost. Block in at least 2 hours a day towards your project and write in spurts, 20 to 30 minutes at a time with a small break in between. If your brain starts to unfocus, then just free-write whatever comes to mind and revise it later when you are focused.

[Anonymous No.21203245]

bump

[Anonymous No.21204048]

how’s it going bros

[Anonymous No.21204093]

not to brag but i wrote a shitting sequence during my morning shit today, during which my protagonist struggles to decide between reading the UNCLE JOHN'S EXTRA LARGE BATHROOM READER his uncle left inside and tearing out a page and folding it into a paper airplane, and before he can decide he's finished shitting and realizes he has to start wiping.

[Anonymous No.21204877]

>>21204048
you know it's good when there's no posts because it means people are writing

[Anonymous No.21204888]

>>21204877
I take it you’re not writing then.

[Anonymous No.21204925]

>>21204048
>>21204877
Hi, I did manage to get to 3400 words today. Even if I have an idea of the plot. It can be really hard to put into words. I am going to keep going though, no matter how bad it turned out to be. Right now, it’s going surprisingly well when I read it after I am done

[Anonymous No.21204962]

I’m at 3500 words total. Trying to do 1800 words a day

[Anonymous No.21204974]

>>21204048
I am finishing off a lot of notes which I needed to write, but I keep getting new ideas too, which I will need to make new notes on, so I am in a bit of a difficult situation.

[Anonymous No.21205065]

NaNoWriMo day 2
0 words written
I'm fucking DOING THIS

[Anonymous No.21205110]

I've wanted to write novels and stories since I was a little kid but i'm from a poor family and they pushed me to go to college to learn computer stuff so I never did, but this year I think I may throw destiny an 8 inch boner and say fuck it. Now if only I didn't stink at grammar. I guess that's what editors were born for though.

[Anonymous No.21205205]

>>21205110
Why do you think having a job affects this exercise? I am deadly serious when I say I can write 1700 words before 10:30 PM, exercise, then do work from home, then go out with friends at night. Ar enough guys that and at time management, or is it the case that you’re a perfectionist which leads to procrastination?

[Anonymous No.21205221]

>>21205205
I wrote a huge paragraph full of excuses but honestly I'm just lazy. Nothing I could point to as an obstacle would be insurmountable. Also I'm exceptionally frightened that if I begin writing in earnest that I won't get any good feedback (or worse) and i'll have the last dream I'm holding onto ripped to shreds.

[Anonymous No.21205252]

>>21197062
>imagine writing in 2022

Dog, my last novel got 67 downloads. Pic related. The comedy of it all.

[Anonymous No.21205267]

okay so if I actually finish my book and put it on Amazon, how do I get peopl to buy it. I don’t have any friends

[Anonymous No.21205305]

>>21205267
You need to spend money advertising. You're actually selling yourself, not your book. Your book can be absolute shit. Many are. What you sell is yourself. Once people attach to you, the author, they'll eat all the litslop you can cram down their gullets. So you need to put a few books out then advertise and pretend your some hotshot big nuts god of the written word. People like that shit. People like machismo, no matter how much feminist fuddy-duddies like to say otherwise. You can do it buddy. Lesser people than you have done it. Also, get yourself an agent.

[Anonymous No.21205310]

>>21205305
thanks anon

[Anonymous No.21205318]

I haven't spent a single keystroke on this

[Anonymous No.21205333]

>>21205310
Of all the people I've never known, you my friend will make it furthest of all.

[Anonymous No.21205973]

>>21204048
Made it to 5k today, trying to stay ahead of the curve because of the end of month holidays but I might be hitting a wall here soon.

[Anonymous No.21205980]

What's stopping me from copy and pasting a manuscript?

[Anonymous No.21206007]

I'm at 238 words already!

[Anonymous No.21206021]

>>21205980
self respect

>>21206007
gj pal

[Anonymous No.21206122]

>>21205973
Damn writing about dragons and magic spells is pretty easy huh

[Anonymous No.21206414]

>>21197062
>threads
4channel being 4channel
>discord
literally troons

how does this happen, do they just lurk for discord posts, is lit really that full of underage YA reading troons

[Anonymous No.21206425]

>>21206122
How did you know I wrote about those?

[Anonymous No.21206711]

>>21206414
It's probably because 4chan is anonymous so you don't really get to know other posters unless you spend all day here and learn how to recognise the posting patterns of specific schizos. Meanwhile, Discord is a chat service so it's much more suitable for the oversocialised and lonely.

[Anonymous No.21206758]

>>21204048
Pretty well. NaNoWriMo is always less of a challenge in terms of actually writing so much as it is one of sticking to a schedule and for the previous two days I've actually gone well over the daily minimum.
I have no issue sitting down and writing. I just lack the ability to do it well.

[Anonymous No.21207661]

Hey! Discord link doesn't work, please post another one.

[Anonymous No.21207855]

>>21204048
Made it to 11800 today. Honestly don't feel too great about the quality of what I'm writing, but I'm treating it as a first draft and approaching it as a borderline stream-of-consciousness deal where I just want to say as much as I can say and finish the story at 50k as quickly as possible to then go back and weed through the bad to find the good before finishing it. Fun either way though.

[Anonymous No.21207858]

Started on day 3. Got 2k words in. Think I'm doing fine.

[Anonymous No.21207863]

How am I supposed to write when I keep having to piss and shit so much what did I eat it just doesn’t stop cooming

[Anonymous No.21208124]

>>21205252
>67 downloads

i would be overjoyed if 67 people downloaded and read something that I wrote

[Anonymous No.21208175]

>>21205252
It's a matter of audience, really.
If you write for a hungry market you'll get a hungry response even if your work is shoddy.

That being said, if you're only writing a book for the popularity you shouldn't be writing at all.
I consider my fiction successful if it gets ten or more views. I figure if ten people see it, statistically at least one of them will have enjoyed it. That's enough for me.

[Anonymous No.21208280]

>>21208175
>>21205252
if you want views and a shit-ton of readers write some monster romance, people love romance and nothing is hotter than romancing an elder god

[Anonymous No.21208724]

>>21206122
I'm not.
>>21206425
^not me

[Anonymous No.21208735]

>>21205252
it's all about marketing. how are you expecting people to find it otherwise? you have to sell it, not just put it up for sale.

[Anonymous No.21208738]

I wrote 250 words today. Maybe more.

[Anonymous No.21209009]

>>21207855
how? I’m at 4.4K and struggling with hitting 1700 a day

[Anonymous No.21209139]

>>21209009
Its all habit anon, as soon as you're able to actually force yourself to sit down write and not do anything else (not getting side tracked, not going back and worrying about what you've done before and being tempted to rewriting before you even finish a first draft, not alt-tabbing into a different program even to talk for a minute or two, just working on that blank page) it gets hard to stop, and if you're genuinely interested in what you're writing you'll have those moments where you're walking around or doing something else during the day and think "oh shit, I just had an idea for that project!" But then again, I'd rather finish a first draft even if it is not great at first glance and then go back and editorialize from the beginning than working on something strenuously chapter-by-chapter, so at the end of the month I might end up scrapping thousands of words off the top. I think it's all just a matter of perspective, and writing little per day doesn't matter as long as you manage to get across the finish line at the end of the day. Good luck, I hope you make it.

[Anonymous No.21209738]

>>21197062
NaNoWriMo is so fucking stupid. This is not how creative writing works. It's not even a constructive exercise. Wtf are you learning by forcing yourself to write garbage with no feeling behind it? If you need this "program" to get yourself to write then face it, you don't fucking like writing and you shouldn't be a writer.

[Anonymous No.21209929]

Got a little stuck today in the section i was writing, and figured I'd just move on rather than keep writing it.
Probably a sign that it needs to be either edited down/out or I need to make it more interesting to read because if writing its hard i can't imagine what reading it will be like.
Hope other anons are having great success so far with writing their stories.

[Anonymous No.21210614]

>>21209738
The biggest problem of creative writing is procrastination. NaNoWriMo tackles specifically that.

[Anonymous No.21211184]

>>21210614
It’s not procrastinating if you’re working on world building, is it?

[Anonymous No.21211291]

>>21209738
Fuck off. This is how F did it and this is how we're doing it from now on. I am writing an erotica about black penis because that's what sells. What are you doing, you poorly-read troglodyte?

[Anonymous No.21211316]

>>21211184
>It’s not procrastinating if you’re working on world building, is it?
Not if you are putting it into notes, no.

[Anonymous No.21211331]

>>21211291
>erotica about a black penis
but what's it about?

[Anonymous No.21211365]

>>21210614
If you're procrastinating doing something, you don't actually want to do it and you shouldn't do it unless you're being graded for it. Stop kidding yourself.

[Anonymous No.21211377]

>>21211331
Your mom and her friendly new neighbor

[Anonymous No.21211465]

>>21211365
Fuck off retarded demoralisation shill. lol.

[Anonymous No.21211514]

>>21211465
>shill
For? And you want to be a writer.

[Anonymous No.21211623]

>>21211514
How am I supposed to know that? Maybe you're just a self-hating POS who wants others to hate themselves too. Personally, I always knew I was going to write a story, and Nanowrimo is just a fun challenge to bring my ideas into being. I am sure there are other anons who are similar. So maybe it's just you who's miserable?

[Anonymous No.21211642]

>>21211623
>Personally, I always knew I was going to write a story
So then write it bitch, why do you need to play pretend and follow an imaginary deadline?

[Anonymous No.21211857]

>>21211642
Because it's fun.
Seethe.

[Anonymous No.21211864]

>>21197062
If you start today you have 25 days of 2k words/day with 1 day off. Building a writing habit is more important than any word count or shitty novel you produce at the end of this experiment. Just get typing and enjoy the process.

[Anonymous No.21211910]

>>21211857
based
>>21211642
miserable cretin

[Anonymous No.21211932]

>>21198884
the first half sounds really cringe but the second half sounds cool. change the first half i would suggest make it not so super heroey and gay sounding

[Anonymous No.21211948]

Serious question, how unhinged do you have to be to write 20,000 words a day? Curious.

[Anonymous No.21211981]

>>21211948
You’d need to allot most hours of your day to writing and have a great idea of what you’re trying to say. You’d preferably have a solid outline and already have much of the content written in your mind. Chances are that 20k words will be shaved down a couple k after editing. It’s not impossible but a tremendous amount of work and focus.

[Anonymous No.21212146]

>>21211981
>>21211948
>Serious question, how unhinged do you have to be to write 20,000 words a day? Curious.
Depends. There is one famous writer that does it, Pirateaba. He writes The Wandering Inn, one of the most successful webnovels on the internet. His...addiction...to writing is startling, but at the same time surprising how little time is spent on it. He writers on average 4-6 hours a day for three days, then publishing a chapter that goes from 25k to even 40k words. Two times a week. There were times when he wrote 20k or close to it in a single day.

Even scarier is the consistency, he started writing in November 2016 and has written 11 milion words of the story since. 11 Million words in just 6 years. A story that is considered extremely good.

Let that sink in.

[Anonymous No.21212156]

>>21212146
He’s probably using an AI to write

[Anonymous No.21212192]

>>21211948
This is not actually possible. Maybe if you spend literally every single waking moment writing, and you skip sleep completely, and have completely planned out those 20k words from beforehand, and also write without any concern for quality at all, then you would be able to do it. My absolute max in a day has been 8k.

[Anonymous No.21212231]

>>21212156
>He’s probably using an AI to write
He literally streams it. For two years he's been streaming every chapter he writes. Every word. This quality and coherency is not something you can achieve with AI.

Last stream was yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM1esPYfqsw

[Anonymous No.21212249]

>>21212146
"Writing" litrpg webnovel schlock can hardly be compared to real works of fiction creatively.

[Anonymous No.21212345]

>>21211857
>>21211910
Thanks for adding more trash to the trash heap.

[Anonymous No.21212683]

>>21212345
>"Thanks for adding more trash to the trash heap!"

[Anonymous No.21213109]

>Didn't write yesterday so made up for it today with 3200 words.
>It's all shit.
It's a weird feeling to be able to consistently sit down and get words on paper but look at them and see how flawed they all are. This isn't me fishing for sympathy, I am trying to figure out a way to make this work while being a shit writer. Because I know people who are far better at this, but lack the ability to get to A to B to C and Z consistently and burn out quick but I'll write 100,000 words and have to reedit it multiple times before realizing it's just not worth saving.

[Anonymous No.21213178]

>>21212146
>There is one famous writer that does it, Pirateaba. He writes The Wandering Inn, one of the most successful webnovels on the internet.
Genuinely hope you die.
>Even scarier is the consistency, he started writing in November 2016 and has written 11 milion words of the story since. 11 Million words in just 6 years. A story that is considered extremely good.
>A story that is considered extremely good.
>A story that is considered extremely good.
Please never post here again you fucking soulless retard.

[Anonymous No.21213207]

>>21213178
I stopped coming to /lit/ awhile back because of posts like that, couldn't do it anymore. Eventually I realized it was like getting mad at youtube comments. People like this are going to exist anywhere you go, just accept it, thank God that you can't relate and move on. I can say coming to a NaNoWriMo general of all places is asking for trouble no less than going to their manchild containment general, so you could pick your threads better. They aren't going to show up where you don't want them to be, I guarantee it, so don't come somewhere like here and make a scene either. They have to exist somewhere, just let it be.

[Anonymous No.21213328]

>>21212345
Seething pseud

[Anonymous No.21214365]

>>21213109
Yea first drafts are always shit. As long as you can keep that tenacity when it comes to editing, you will be alright bro.

[Anonymous No.21214556]

>>21212146
Impressive. I thought there'd be more tricks to it like text to speech with very heavy editing. Also writing under pressure on stream must be awkward but probably keeps them on track.

[Anonymous No.21215136]

>>21197062
Is that discord server LGBT friendly? It’s very important to not just have a place to discuss my writing but my quasi sexuality as well.

[Anonymous No.21215311]

>>21215136
yes, it’s discord, so LGBT is implied

[Anonymous No.21215318]

>>21214556
>keeps them on track.
>them
Are you some sort or discord tranny afraid of gendered pronouns? Fuck off to your pirate-bussy forum

[Anonymous No.21215582]

>>21215311
>>21215136
Don't you guys have better things to do than this?

[Anonymous No.21215666]

Just about finished with the outline for my novel bros, then it will be time to start cranking out words

[Anonymous No.21215775]

>>21215666
Today.
What is the novel about anon?

[Anonymous No.21215798]

>>21215666
Nice

[Anonymous No.21215824]

>>21215775
It’s a Picaresque novel, about a man returning from a year long journey seeking fulfillment but he comes back empty handed.

The theme of the story is essentially, “Man cannot live on bread alone” and all of the main characters are searching for a means of fulfillment but they all come up short one way or another.

The only real means to an end is found when the character turns to god.

[Anonymous No.21215830]

>>21215775
it’s very much influenced by Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña, but set in modern times and with a far more religious bent.

[Anonymous No.21215896]

>>21215318
Shut the fuck up you insane nigger.

[Anonymous No.21215937]

>>21197062
I started and finished a novel before November. What now, niggas? Bet you're all super jealous of my superior novel writing strategy.

[Anonymous No.21215942]

>>21198884
Yeah, I liked it when it was called The Avengers Infinity War.

[Anonymous No.21217309]

>>21198884
Both halves are just Thanos+Deadpool.

[Anonymous No.21217382]

>>21197062
Mine is about a futuristic amusement park, where dinosaurs are brought to life through advanced cloning techniques. I call it: Billy and the Clonosaurus.

[Anonymous No.21217440]

>>21215582
I’m just trying to fit in with the kind of people I’ve had to endure at nano meetups.

[Anonymous No.21217456]

>>21217440
I went to a nano meetup, never again. It’s like Reddit amplified

[Anonymous No.21218532]

bump

[Anonymous No.21219264]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxN2GDIr80

[Anonymous No.21219564]

Successfully caught back up with where I needed to be today after struggling with writing for most of the day.
Getting up and walking around a bit in between scenes helped the flow of them I feel.

[Anonymous No.21219691]

>>21197579
What a horrible book that was. It's the only thing of Gwynne's I've read, but it makes me wonder how he's published like 6 books.

Terrible, terrible writer. And not even a minority, so...how?

[Anonymous No.21220217]

Somehow I’m at the proper number of words for being 5 days in, no idea how. I really thought for a second I was gonna let it get away from me. Considering the pacing of what I’m writing though, I get the feeling by day 10 I’ll be at the end of my story, and I’ll really have to think about things to add (besides description).

[Anonymous No.21220552]

>>21211365
You're actually not wrong. A surprising number of authors don't actually want to write. They need some sort of external motivation to do so. And NaNoWriMo provides that.

[Anonymous No.21220667]

I'm 72k words in, 28k left. Technically I started 4 months ago and I'm not doing Nanowrimo, but I'm using the Nanowrimo website to track my progress. It's pretty handy for that.

[Anonymous No.21221139]

Would there be any market for a sci fi book with a female protagonist?

[Anonymous No.21221181]

>>21221139
There is a market for anything, the real question is how big? If your book is good, people will read it.

[Anonymous No.21221215]

>>21209139
What app is that?

[Anonymous No.21222070]

>>21221139
There are plenty of sci-fi novels with female leads; the big new Warhammer 40k novel series has one.

[Anonymous No.21222717]

>Everybody writes fiction
>Nobody writes non-fiction or essays

[Anonymous No.21222779]

>>21221215
It’s the NaNo website.

[Anonymous No.21223318]

Bumping. Tomorrow is 1-week on from Nanowrimo starting. How's everyone's work ethics holding up?

[Anonymous No.21223340]

>>21223318
Currently at 9200, my confidence is failing but I will continue anyway

[Anonymous No.21223369]

how th fuck do you write 50k words in one month ive been writing since january and am at 47k

[Anonymous No.21223380]

>>21223369
>be a neet
IT'S LITERALLY THAT SIMPLE!

[Anonymous No.21223411]

>>21202250
I have an idea for a novel, but i haven't written in a long ass time. I was planning on writing short stories involving the idea for practice first. I might just jot down ideas and a rough outline and write unrelated or related short stories before coming back to my main idea.

[Anonymous No.21223417]

>>21205305
Or die and then someone finds it kek

[Anonymous No.21223427]

>>21212146
>Word count
you could write penis 1000 times a day,
for 100 days

[Anonymous No.21223548]

>>21197579
>I could have finished Heart of Darkness and Mice and Men by then.
Imagine the hubris to try to write a book when you haven’t even read the two works above yet.

[Anonymous No.21223624]

i wrote about 2.5k today to finish a 14k story, easily the longest thing i've ever written. it completely drained me. i'm just not cut out for writing.

[Anonymous No.21223634]

>>21223624
Doing stuff is draining, anon. So long as you can actually do the stuff before you are drained, you are indeed cut out for writing.

[Anonymous No.21223745]

I got an ok idea for a story, not sure if I should write it into a book in my native language or draft a story script for RPGMaker-ish game.
No, I am not capable of writing a whole book in English, my English is shite.

[Anonymous No.21223999]

>>21197062
I wrote 100 words today. Maybe more.

[Anonymous No.21224289]

Outline for my novel is finally written, will begin actually writing tommorow bros, feels very good

[Anonymous No.21225823]

bump

[Anonymous No.21225846]

Honestly I've just been masturbating to unemployable mid-20s women doing vlogs about it on youtube. 0 words.

[Anonymous No.21225896]

>>21197559
>One day
There you go anon, I started it for you

[Anonymous No.21225974]

>>21197568
100% sex scenes of course, no one wants that other stuff

[Anonymous No.21227000]

bump

[Anonymous No.21227123]

>>21225846
Share with the class

[Anonymous No.21228113]

bump

[Anonymous No.21228129]

>>21197117
You can write a short story in a week, you can definitely write 50,000 words in the span of 30 days.

[Anonymous No.21228368]

>office crashed and I lost the entire day's writing
Fucking goddamn it. I know it's going to be worse second time around because I have less energy and enthusiasm for the passages.

[Anonymous No.21228664]

>>21228368
I know how that feels anon. Don't the new versions of office use recoverable autosaves though?

[Anonymous No.21228666]

>>21228664
I hadn't set up autosave properly.

[Anonymous No.21228671]

>>21197062
>written 900 words

[Anonymous No.21228673]

>i-if i shit out a crappy novel in a month, it means my time was well spent!

[Anonymous No.21228685]

I realise my writing is generic but I don't think there's any way to improve than to work through it.

[Anonymous No.21228957]

>>21228685
Indeed. Also, if you are aware of the flaws of your writing, that is already half the battle won. The people who do not improve are those who are not aware of their flaws. The much more difficult thing is to become aware - to fix the flaws is easier, and just a matter of time, effort and attention.

[Anonymous No.21229270]

>>21228673
Really shitty push ups, with your belly still on the floor, are still good exercise!

[Anonymous No.21230672]

>>21228673
unironically yes

[Anonymous No.21231191]

Can someone post the discord invite. The one in the op is invalid.

Also, anyone found a way to sell more copies of your self published books?

I have wrote 14k so far and uploaded the first part to smashwords. See pic related.

[Anonymous No.21232511]

>>21231191
>Can someone post the discord invite.
no

[Anonymous No.21233319]

can someone post the god damn discord invite

[Anonymous No.21234146]

I had a headache and slept a lot last night, but I actually managed to keep pace. Gotta go for it again tonight.

[Anonymous No.21234148]

bump