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What's the longest thing you've ever written, /lit/?

>> No.6453152

87,000 words.

>> No.6453156

around 15k

>> No.6453166

41k sadfaec

>> No.6453242 [DELETED] 

About thirty thousand words long, but those thirty thousand words will shape the future and help a lot of people.

>> No.6453251

4chan posts.

>> No.6453661

>>6453146
52k word Modern Family fanfiction.

>> No.6453664

>>6453661
please share it

>> No.6453667

>>6453146
probably "Against the Day."

>> No.6453668

>>6453146
I have not ever
written anything that is
not a haiku bro

>> No.6453673

I know a guy I went to grade school with (literally autistic) who wrote a book that's 3,000+ pages. Fucker tried to send it to me as a .docx file.

>> No.6453675

>>6453146
El Quijote, but just the 9th and 38th chapters

>> No.6453677

A single sentence built from 90,000 words.

>> No.6453681

33k words of wow fanfiction

i wish i was le jokes

>> No.6453813

>>6453664
http://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600098537

>> No.6453822

130,000 words, 1st book of a 5 book novel.

>> No.6454305

The first book of my sci fantasy series is 101,882 words at 500+ pages. It's took me close to nine years to write the whole thing but it's 4400 pages.

And it has jetpacks.

>> No.6454324

>>6453668
fuck you tao

>> No.6454483

9 volumes about a kid with superpowers. It's absolutely juvenile.

>> No.6454492
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6454492

>tfw no-one will ever bother reading your 4,000 line modern epic in blank verse

>> No.6454502

>>6453673

lollll

>> No.6454508

>>6454483
Skitter?

>> No.6454510

>>6454508
What?

>> No.6454588

A 50 page The Simpsons script which focused on Bart realizing he was a woman on the inside.

>> No.6454661

>>6454492
Just read it in a slam poetry thing. Tell them you're gonna close and to let people get out whenever they want. It can even be a thing, people trying to be the first one to hear it to the end and a physical challenge for the one reciting it.

>> No.6454668

>>6454588
I wanna read that

>> No.6454695

>>6453667
8/8

>> No.6454959

I rewrote the entire Unabomber Manifesto into a lovely musical parody that poked fun at Elliot Rodger, popular internet culture, and the United States. It is over 90,000 words. It took me eight months of my life, I'm the only person who will ever read it, and it is without a single doubt the most autistic work of fiction ever created.

>> No.6454969

>>6453146
75 page thesis. its shit. the dates on the edits were too short and i had no motivation. what im doing now will be better

>> No.6455043

>>6454959

>not posting this on /lit/

do it foggat

>> No.6455070

>>6454959
Sounds like it could be great. Post it faggot.

>> No.6455111

>>6454959
>not postin it

>> No.6455203

>>6454661
hmmmmmingway I really want this actually; reminds me of Kafka's Hunger Artist.

>> No.6455212

>>6454959
holy hell post this please I want it so bad I'm diamonds jesus christ

>> No.6455272

A 900 word book review on Amazon.

>> No.6455342

>>6454959
come on, dude

>> No.6455363

Copied Ulysses in its entirety in order to get a feel for all the different styles presented in the work. Didn't technically write it, but, well, you know.

>> No.6455394

33 page novelette about a Doctor and a Cop searching for the edenic serpent around the world in the hopes of solving the case of who murdered Donald Dorf (who, they both know, killed himself).

>> No.6455398

>>6453146

this post

>> No.6455413

My current shit about 10k or something, aiming for 80k but I dont know. Hope I finish it someday

>> No.6455424

>>6454969
Oh wait thesis counts? Mine has like 700 pages but its software shit so written by me Is a lot less

>> No.6455430

Fifty words and counting

Getting there somehow

>> No.6455440
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6455440

>>6454959
i want to read this

>> No.6455475

>>6454959

show it

>> No.6455476

I wrote on my dick

>> No.6455526

>>6455476
Why dont you apply for the record of the shortest written piece?

ur mom

>> No.6455606
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6455606

>>6453813
" “You will be though. I’ll make sure of it, for you."

>> No.6456019
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6456019

>>6454959
give it to us now or die

>> No.6456151

>>6454305
126,000 hard sci novel I'm working on.

It has no jetpacks.
o.O

>> No.6456173

>>6455476
Go to bed MC Ride.

>> No.6457234

>>6456151
Then it's garbage.

>> No.6457254

>>6456173
Nigga, that was Zach Hill.

>> No.6457276

>>6453146
My dissertation
It was a tour de force

>> No.6457278

>>6454959
Daily POST IT bump

>> No.6457659
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6457659

>>6453813
It's good.

>> No.6457664

A 109 page screenplay.

>> No.6457668

some 50k words. it was all pretty much shit.
but it was a learning experience.
it felt cathartic, too, like I was just expelling out all this bullshit, away from me, out of me.

>> No.6457690

100 000 words total, 21k into my second draft. Making a decent novel is hard work.

>> No.6457705

>>6457276
A high octane thrill ride

>> No.6457729

>>6453146

bout tree fiddy

>> No.6457735

>>6453146

How do you guys get the motivation to sit down and do this

I'd like to write a book someday...
What do you guys do when you initially plan it out? How do I make a book seem more than just young adult fiction which is the genre I seem to default to when I tried in the past

>> No.6457737

A 160 page stage play. Way too long. But I hate cutting it down to size.

>> No.6457767

>>6457735
Well....you sit down and do it.

Sorry if that's not very descriptive, but it really all there is to it.

>What do you guys do when you initially plan it out?

Personally, i just write a basic outline in my head. Some people take all kinds of notes, write diagrams and shit. I can just do it in my head. Then when i actually write i fill in all the small details on the page.

As for length. The longest was my first novel, it was originally around 120,000 words, but i cut it down to about 90,000. It was a learning experience, in all honesty, all the shit i cut out had very little impact on the story. It took me a while to figure out that you don't need to describe EVERYTHING.

>> No.6457773

>>6453146
a 40 page thesis for my bachelors degree on the topic of rousseau's first discourse

>> No.6457807

>>6457735
>How do you guys get the motivation to sit down and do this
Fuck all else to do
>What do you guys do when you initially plan it out?
Just had the skeleton of a plot down. The spine of the story. And a rough idea of the personalities of the characters. Then I just had them talk to each other or act. I'm pretty minimalist on scene setting. And I don't write what characters think, just what they say or do.

>> No.6457820

>>6457807
>>6457767

I don't know, I have no sense of literary style or structure
I feel like I'd just describe everything in detail for no reason, and the story would just degrade into edgy bullshit eventually

maybe I'm just too young for it right now

>> No.6457821

>>6454508
Worm?

>> No.6457835

>>6457820
Don't be so down on yourself for being young. It's possible you also just plain suck at writing.

>> No.6457842

>>6457835

thanks anon, I actually feel better

>> No.6457880

>>6457820
It's impossible to avoid the mistake phase. Just keep going. Get somebody whose opinion you respect to point out what you're doing wrong. Start over with that in mind. And read other writers and figure out why you like what they do.

>> No.6457895

I wrote a novella that was around 55k words and a novel that was around 115k. Neither are published.

Looking back, the novel was trash and the novella was pretty good. Merits a rewrite in a couple years.

>> No.6457944

>>6453146
500 words.

I read books, I don't write them.

>> No.6458062

I have been writing a thesis on philosophy.

It's extremely pleb and autistic and I hope nobody ever gets to read it.
It's fun though, that's what matters right.

>> No.6458069

>>6458062
Oh yeah, I'm 100k words in.
That's what makes it extra autistic.

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6458089

>>6457820

>lit style and structure

THROW THAT SHIT OUT

as long as you can spell words correctly and understand what they mean before you use them, you can write

forget about all that paragraph/story structure the teacher taught you
WRITING IS 100% CREATIVE AND ENGLISH CLASSES ARE LIKE MUSIC THEORY, IT'S A SUGGESTION AS TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE USED TO THINKING IS GOOD AND NOTHING MORE

>> No.6458124

11k word short story

>> No.6458160
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6458160

what font and size do you guys go with?

how do I format a book in my copy of abiword

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6458177

>>6454959
>>6455043
>>6455070
>>6455111
>>6455342
>>6455440
>>6455475
>>6456019
>>6457278
Don't worry guys, he'll deliver

>> No.6458192

300+ page Runescape fanfic about this guy and his forbidden relationship with a noob

>> No.6458213

>>6458089
This is the first piece of fiction I will have written since English class when I was like 15.

The weathered man across from me sipped his coffee insipidly. As he set the mug down his loose jowls quivered. I received a quick look, "What can you bring to my company then?". It was a simple question, I didn't hesitate before answering, "To be frank, nothing special. I don't particularly like books. But I can promise to turn up to work everyday and read the manuscripts put in front of me". He didn't seem as taken back as I would have assumed, he just raised an eyebrow. "We don't get many cocky types around here" he grunted, "but I fucking hate books. All those words. I just need books that sell, and that attitude seems to be just what I need. Treat the books like movies." He beamed at me, it appears I had got the job.

Still think anyone can write?

>> No.6458225

>>6453673
>>6453673
Whats wrong with a docx file

>> No.6458233

>>6458225
Most businesses and publishers still just use .doc if they even bother to use word.

>> No.6458235

>>6454959
pls

>> No.6458266

>>6458160

pls respond

>> No.6458268

>>6458233
What's the industry standard then?

>> No.6458275

>>6458268
There is none. You format it however the person you're submitting too requires it.

>> No.6458320

>>6458275

liar

>> No.6458353

>>6458320
.pdf

with 1.5x line spacing

>> No.6458368

>>6458353

fuck off

tolkien looks nothing like that

>> No.6458406

>>6458368
for them to read and annotate shithead.

The way you submit a manuscript is not the way it is published.

>> No.6458415

>>6458406

whuh
what

that means page count in my word progam is completely pointless/useless though

>> No.6458428

>>6458415
Yes.
Most people use word count, the length of novels, novellas, short stories etc is decided by word count not page length.

>> No.6458602
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6458602

>>6458089

pic related is how i write my books
sneak peak of my latest work
i ensure they are published as you see herev except in a smaller more booky way

>> No.6458685

>>6458602

Do publishers really let you go out with no capitalization?

>> No.6458700

Does anyone publish under a pseudonym

do you think it's cowardly to do so?

I'm considering doing it am I a pretentious fuckass

>> No.6458722

>>6458700

I have 3-4 pseudonyms because I self publish, and I write a variety of genres. People want one author = one genre so it drives more sales

>> No.6458725

>>6458722

how do you self publish?

Do you know anything about getting a pseudonym with a publisher?

>> No.6458745

>>6458353
Some places request .pdf if you submit a manuscripts, some request something else, some don't really give a shit.

All depends.

>> No.6458841

whenever I write I always feel corny as shit, especially when it's in first person

>> No.6458913

I wrote a 9 page paper on the role of the mass of people in the Church according to documents written during Vatican II.

It was bullshit, writing is gay.

>> No.6458932

>>6453146

Probably a 6-7 page essay way back when. As far as fiction goes, a 2 page short story I wrote 6 years ago. I hit my creative peak around then

>> No.6458933

>>6458913
Well you wrote it. So i guess you're gay.

>> No.6459006

>>6453146

25 page essay on socialist and anarchist movements during the late 1800s in the United States

>> No.6459014

>>6453146

A 21 Page paper on Plato's "Theaetetus".

>> No.6459019

>>6453146
10,000 words on durkheim

>> No.6459383

465 WORDS PER CHAPTER

GOOD!?!?!??!?

>> No.6459397

>>6459383

If it's a blog

>> No.6459400

>>6453146
My master's thesis was 70+ pages.

>> No.6459421

4 page essay
2 page fan fiction

Both were double-spaced

>> No.6459428

>>6453146
a 2 page essay

>> No.6459509

A 150,000 (600 page) historical fiction biography about the Pharaoh Hatchepsut when I was 16. But I've since realized that there are already fictional biographies of her so I wanna re-write it to add more fantasy and ancient religious elements and not make such a big deal about a 'female pharaoh'. I feel good about the new direction for the re-write, it'll probably be closer to 200k.

>> No.6459571

Around three words

>> No.6459587

>>6459397

fuck you

theres nothing wrong with it

>> No.6459659

>>6459397

this guy has no idea what he's talking about

>> No.6459666

>>6453813
that was pretty decent dude
You should ghost write for GRRM's next rape scene

>> No.6459698

I once went to the max character limit on a 4chan post.

>> No.6459748

>>6459571
Underrated post.

>> No.6459749

>>6459509
Sounds interesting. I hope it comes along well.

>> No.6461097

>>6459666
His work is beneath me.

>> No.6462348

>>6453813
I can't believe I kept reading that. I jumped in at the octopus scene and kind of just went on reading. It's well-written, but Jesus it's twisted.

>> No.6462473

>>6459571
I came here to laugh at this.

>> No.6463624

>>6462348
You're missing out on an actually pretty tense escape attempt starting there bro, should read the rest because you've got all this spare time.

>> No.6464053

20k review,
although I do not write.

>> No.6464066

>>6453146
10 page research paper on the colonial history of the congo.