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7947172

Anonymous Wed Apr 20 23:56:18 2016 No.7947172 [Reply] [Original]

>have a 50,000 word novel due in this lifetime

What the fuck do I do? Plz send help

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:02:57 2016 No.7947203 >50,000 words >a novel That's practically a diary entry

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:03:56 2016 No.7947208 >>7947172 Write finnegans wake 2. All you need is a random word generator.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:15:33 2016 No.7947256 guise this is serious if i don't get into the western canon in the next fifty years my mom is gonna freak ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:16:42 2016 No.7947257 I write 50,000-word novels every year. It's not that hard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:18:02 2016 No.7947259 >>7947257 It's all garbage though. Why do people have no shame in writing garbage?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:25:33 2016 No.7947286 >>7947259 I don't write garbage.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:13:44 2016 No.7947429 >>7947256 underrated

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:14:57 2016 No.7947436 >>7947286 You do if you're writing 50,000 words that fast.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:20:50 2016 No.7947452 >>7947436 No, it only takes a month to write a 50,000-word novel but I take another to revise it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:40:19 2016 No.7947495 >>7947452 If you write 50k-word novels that fast then you clearly don't put adequate thought into your work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 02:18:39 2016 No.7947582 >>7947495 That's not necessarily true. Stop the bullying.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 03:00:16 2016 No.7947673 >>7947436 Bullshit. Revising a work to be good takes way more time, but generating the first draft in that time is totally feasible for someone working at it full time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 11:36:23 2016 No.7948629 >>7947172 >only 50000 Bro, I'm like 55000 words into my novel, and I'm less than a tenth of the way into the story outline.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 11:37:41 2016 No.7948635 >>7947436 >50000 words >every year >"that fast" Are you fucking joking right now? 50000 words is like a goddamned short story. I'm sorry, I need to leave this thread, you're making me too mad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 11:41:49 2016 No.7948654 >6 word story due >help

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 11:49:26 2016 No.7948689 >>7947172 You'll never do it if you think of it as 50,000 words.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 11:50:40 2016 No.7948693 >>7948654 For sale

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 11:51:44 2016 No.7948698 >>7948654 "omelette du fromage"

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 12:09:56 2016 No.7948762 >>7947495 dude just because you rely on your capricious muse doesn't mean everyone else has to some people actually take writing seriously.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 12:11:53 2016 No.7948767 >>7948654 On a serious note, I have a 35 word story contest for a local library due soon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 12:24:51 2016 No.7948807 >>7948767 35 has a prime factorization of 7*5

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 12:36:30 2016 No.7948841 >>7947172 Consider how many gorillion words you've shitposted over the years. Writing is easy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 13:15:52 2016 No.7948943 >>7948635 >50,000 words is like a goddamned short story. maybe if you only write bloated fantasy novels

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 13:46:03 2016 No.7949039 >>7948943 The only kind of novel worth reading, friend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 14:31:14 2016 No.7949170 >>7947256 My sides