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Welcome to /dfw/, a subreddit dedicated to discussion for people who regularly write. What are you writing?

Here are a few things to get the conversation going:
>What are you currently working on?
>How many words did you write today?
>How long do you think your current project will take?
>How do you support yourself as a writer?
>Where do you live?
>What do you do besides write?

The meme of the day is pic related.
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>> No.6635796
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woah, what's going on?

>> No.6635803

I'll start.

>What are you currently working on?
I'm working on a novel.
>How many words did you write today?
I wrote 638 words today.
>How long do you think your current project will take?
It will probably take me a few months to finish the first draft. The editing will take a few months too.
>How do you support yourself as a writer?
I support myself by programming.
>Where do you live?
I live in Chicago.
>What do you do besides write?
I like reading too, and skateboarding.

>> No.6635805

John Green is a cuckold.

>> No.6635827

dfw?

did someone say dfw?

>> No.6635828

>Few poems
>Idk, maybe a dozen and a half lines of poetry
>a month or two
>selling drugs
>southern florida
>graffiti, read, work out, paint, music, basketball, party

>> No.6635855

currently working on an ongoing comedic slice of life fantasy fiction.

today i wrote 2400ish words. (i know i posted this elsewhere, but it's exciting to find yourself in the mood.)

i would like it to go on for a month or so at this pace, maybe two. i would learn a lot from the experience.

i don't support myself. i'm a neet.

i live in the southern united states.

i read, garden, and make art.

>> No.6635870

>>6635828
How is selling drugs going? Why would you admit that online?

>> No.6635878

>>6635828
By poetry do you mean rap?

>> No.6635914

Two short stories.

One I posted about in another thread yesterday so I'll leave that for now.

I wrote the first draft of another one just a few hours ago. I read a short story from a 2003 issue of The Paris Review by a fellow called Salter and decided to emulate it, based on my recurring daydream as to what a conversational exchange with my ex would be like if I were to run into her unexpectedly at some hilariously innocuous event. I took it a step further though and allowed it to become meta, and behind the lines (or transcending the lines really) is the conscious attempt of the writing to challenge the perceived relationship between reader and writer; what's based on a true story; what do the reader and writer want to be a true story; and what's fiction. It's quite clever, the twist is rather cleverly done. It's rather succinct and inconspicuous, but definitely powerful when you realise Just What It Means.

Sorry that this post is sort of meandering, I ended up thinking aloud there.

>> No.6635922

>>6635914
I'm imagining you muttering to yourself as you wrote this post.

>> No.6635942

>>6635922

I kid you not, as soon as I clicked 'post' I turned on my bedroom light, picked up my a4 pad and started writing notes based on what I just wrote.

I am very hopeful for these two stories though, they're better than anything I've thought up in a good while. I'm going to write them to a final draft form and try to get them published, at least.

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>>6635870
>Why would you admit that online?

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>>6635784
I'll bite
>What are you currently working on?
A fantasy novel!
>How many words did you write today?
800~
>How long do you think your current project will take?
A month and a half, depends on my writing speed.
>How do you support yourself as a writer?
hahaha
>Where do you live?
A megacity, so finding quiet writing time is tough
>What do you do besides write?
read ofc, that's why I'm /lit/

>> No.6636002

why the FUCK is /dfw/ not david foster wallace

>> No.6636003

I'm trying to finish my retarded little ~25,000 word novella. I've written 1,500 words today and its going to need to be at least 30,000 before its done considering the way it has been paced so far. Its memecore as fuck too so hopefully I can rake in mad stacks of irony cash once its all done.

>> No.6636023

hey dfw, how do you take something like an urban legend with no "plot" so to speak of and turn it into a story?

>> No.6636658

>>6635784
>What are you currently working on?
A novel, well fragments of one.
>How many words a day
zero
>How long do you think your current project will take?
A year or two
>How do you support yourself
I'm a student, so a job supplemented with loans
>Where do you live?
Texas
>What do you do beside write?
$moke weed.

>> No.6636684

>>6636023
You're talking about Slender Man.

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>>6636002
dfw they steal your name

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>>6635784
>mfw saw pic in OP and immediately misread thread title as 'daily fraud writing'

>> No.6638548

>What are you currently working on?
A sci-fi novel about a privatized time traveler who sells his service to a pharmaceutical company for R&D that turns out to be reviving extinct diseases into a bioterrorism campaign they will profit from. Time traveler questions himself for being a part after it becomes national news.

Twist: Time travel steals from you full life span, Average life span of 75 gets cut down a year or so at a time every time you go attempt it.
>How many words did you write today?
Not that much, just added to my outlines a bit. It is my day off from writing.
>How long do you think your current project will take?
I'd give it a few months. Maybe 6 total.
>How do you support yourself as a writer?
I'm a student. I work part time in a hotel during the semester, full time when I'm off. I also has a second job as a dog trainer.
>Where do you live?
Philadelphia suburb
>What do you do besides write?
I play several music instruments and a volunteer sports official/umpire for local little leagues/PAL sports/and CYO leagues. In any spare time that I'm not writing, I'm with my family and occasionally help my dad repair or restore antiques.

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>>6635784

>subreddit

I'm alarmed that nobody caught this. Can't reddit just stay on their own board? Why do you have to come here?

>> No.6639964

>>6638548
Your plot sounds awesome.

This thread makes me realize how slow /lit/ is sometimes.

>> No.6640177

>>6638548
this sounds really cool, but you're going to have to think of logical reasons why he wouldn't just abuse time traveling powers for much easier, greater profit. Keep up the good work.

>> No.6640713

>wrote the most well thought out trilogy of posts in the objective truth/dante's inferno thread
No response, thread is almost expired
>wrote 3 memior posts, full 3,000 chars, in the write what's on your mind thread
Ignored

I came upon the realization that lit hates original works

>> No.6640745

>>6638579
Baited hard

>> No.6640751

>>6638579
Relax, comrade.

>> No.6640888

>What are you currently working on?
sci-fi novel
>How many words did you write today?
16. Having trouble describing a scene
>How long do you think your current project will take?
atleast a year. maybe 2
>How do you support yourself as a writer?
i don't
>Where do you live?
usa
>What do you do besides write?
sleep

>> No.6641021

>>6635914
Link it here when you get it published, anon. Sounds interesting. I've been working on something a bit similar since October. Best of luck.

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>>6640745
mfw i'm OP

>What are you currently working on?
I'm still working on my novel.
>How many words did you write today?
I wrote 638 today. I think I'm getting up to speed. My goal is 1,000 words per day. This makes time to completion for my works easy.
>How long do you think your current project will take?
At this rate I should have the first draft done in less than a month.

Writing this book is pretty easy so far. I've never taken a project seriously.

>>6640888
Why are you having trouble describing a scene? Do you sleep because you are depressed? Are you a NEET? What's the premise of your novel?