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You will never be the best. You need to accept that you, like almost everyone else, is unremarkable. That doesn't mean you can't achieve things if you try. If you always compare yourself to others, no matter what you do, you will never be happy.

I wrote this December 2017:
>A couple of years from now,
>I cannot see how,
>many years from now,
>I will know how,
>I will know what state I will be in;
>sickly or poor, dead as a door,
>sat on the floor of a general store
>filled with cuts of a boar born beside the revolving escalading door...
>but more and more I don't see myself there,
>I see myself with a mouth full of hair,
>eating my words from the replies I have heard of my awful attempt at a...
>life...
>a life that's a blur.

I wrote this one a bit earlier on a quiet Thursday afternoon:
>The sun is a-beating
>Our lives are a-fleeting
>There is no abating
>Our pleasant masturbating

>In bedrooms and parks
>We have our kind larks
>Spilling warm loads
>On the earth's gentle abode

>Semen for stones
>From out of our backbone
>Spill on the rocks
>From out of our cocks

>As God intended

Reading stuff I used to write online is incredibly nostalgic. I remember that exact day, and what I was thinking as I typed every line. I guess barley over a year ago wasn't that long ago.

writing atm an epic poem on early slavs and their mythology

I kinda want to go back to writing daily since I stopped a year ago, but I find that I rarely know what to write and that usually makes me fall in the bad habit of simply not doing it, again.
For how stupid it may sound, some erotic short story seem like a good excuse to practice. I'll have to try.
Any suggestion about other ways to practice?

seems pretty interesting, what sources are you using?

Here's an outlook of my incredibly autistic writing "carreer".

One when I was about 14 - it was set in a huge fantasy universe that I basically began to construct when I was 9 - I continued worldbuilding until I was 19, but have stopped now.

I then wanted to write a short story about a guy who falls severely mentally ill and is then set on the normie path of life again by a qt 3.14 nerd/core/emo/goth grill from his school again. I abandoned the project because it was incredibly edgy.

I almost finished a novella with the title "The Sculptor. An atavistic legend of life's power". I wrote this essentially to justify to myself that I still physically desired my ex. This is the only work I might finish someday.

I started writing another fantasy novel at 16, but abandoned it at about 20 pages. I set it in a Skyrim-like atmosphere, where a peaceful people is torn apart by warmongering, uncultured barbarians.

Also, I wanted to publish an essay of mine on rune magic and sexual practices I wrote when I was 15.

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I'm not into fantasy. I only read non-fiction.

Have you thought about branching into NF?

seems to me your biggest problem is not finishing anything because you worry too much about the content of your writing. Just finish something and at least let it haunt you no more.

>There's a particular artist I stalk online who is everything I'm not - writes prolifically, draws well and prolifically, has a successful IRL career in an academic field, etc. etc. He's ~29 or 30, I'm 23. My goal is to beat where he's at when I'm his age. In the meantime I sit here growing increasingly incendiary as I watch him do things that I want to do and be who I want to be.
Name of the artist?

oldshep, but be advised that if you're not into furry muscle and giant cocks you'll want to keep the brain bleach nearby if you go exploring.

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Writing short porn is very easy and fun, so long as you have enough discipline to keep your hand off your dick in the process so that you can stay in the mood - and are satisfied with writing something that has literally zero intellectual depth.

You are envious of a furry porn artist?

Who's the artist, user?

A high school romance about a snarky, tsundere honor student tutoring the star basketball player in chemistry. She has always liked him and he gradually comes to like her back.

Yes, and no.

I'm not envious that he's a furry porn artist. I'm envious that he writes prolifically and serviceably and draws prolifically and well. Furry porn is just the common medium through which we both express our creativity, and he expresses his better than me. Hence the envy. There's nothing particularly special or worthy about him except that he's one of the handful of furry artists who have their IRL shit together, and that's what I want to be - someone with a successful normalfag life who also writes and draws prolifically, perhaps to the shallow adulation of malformed twitter idiots but at least to some acclaim.

I fucking hate furry artists and always have so I've always wanted to upstage them by being as good as they are but competent and successful. It's one of my life goals. And here is someone beating me at it, without even wanting to. So I sit here and seethe. That's not all I do - I am, myself, practicing and improving - but the boiling rage remains and visits itself upon me intermittently. It feeds into the snap realisation I had not long ago that I've failed at every single significant goal I've ever set for myself because I am a lazy sloth. I deeply hate myself, but without the fashionable self-pity. This particular furry artist is just a latching-on point - a concrete expression of the causes of my young-adult-life crisis - that I suppose I have in some sense constructed into an idol and put on a pedestal, and told myself that if I can tear it down I will have won.

I'm self-aware enough to realise that these are the insane ramblings of a mad retard, but not in good enough control of myself to let go.

And here I said I was going to stop blogposting.

oldshep, but see

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I'm not sure yet. It's a pastiche of my childhood by way of Vonnegut, and reads like a much lesser and sexually frustrated version of him. I'm excited by it, but also deeply ashamed and self-conscious of it. I may actually finish this one however, as it is ostensibly about myself, and I've found the only thing I care to write about is myself and directly.

In the past I've written some short stories, some longer attempts at by the numbers genre fiction, but all of these have tapered out at the thirty-thousand word mark.

I don't think this is going to track well, we being where we are, but I found going on the Writing Prompt subreddit can be a fine way to force yourself to knock out a short story here and there. You'll have to dig through quite a few 'humorous' and leading prompts to find anything engaging though.

Just sitting down with an empty document and doing some stream of consciousness writing can help get everything moving again as well.

>so long as you have enough discipline to keep your hand off your dick in the process
damn, there's always a catch

Still revising novel draft. It will be finished mid-May, probably.
Finished a 4k word short story yesterday. Needs an edit or two, but not bad for a day's work. Gonna write a few more in that vein for contests. I've been reading Maupassant's short stories, so rather than writing Dazai-esque manic first person ones I'm trying out a style more similar to how I do novels, which is third person limited and more of a traditional story format. Not that the diary entries weren't fun, they're just too personal for contests.
>about what
Despair.

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Writing to get horny, rather than writing when horny, helps.

everything i can find desu, sacred texts has a good collection of slavic legends

Really like the one from Dec 2017. I was literally just thinking to myself as I scrolled this thread "why is everything always absolute garbage on here" and then I saw your post. Love the whole first poem, lovely stuff. The other one reads really nicely, but personally I don't like to read about people whacking off. Still nice structure and lovely words.
Did you by chance write a poem which starts:

i sat in a yellow clearing watching popcorn grow

being is sitting in the sun in the afternoon
and the next morning in the snow...?

Currently starting work on my first novel(la) length story. It's an attempt to break myself out of the obsessive world-building insanity that's entirely too rampant in fantasy right now, and I've fallen prey to it. I have the bare basics of what I need to begin, and from now on I'm going to make the setting conform to the story, not the other way around. I realized that I want to write narratives, not create tabletop games.
>what's it about
A young priests struggle between his desire for adventure and glory and his inherent sense of duty and honor. There's a big journey where he is introduced to the brutality of the wild and where he comes into contact with the savagery of his nature. It's quickly becoming my favorite project for sure.

Thanks for the advice, kind anons.

Yeah, I actually considered going into non-fiction, or at least release my poem collection (I wrote about 90 poems since 2016).

Would you share a poem here?

Anyone writing in a foreign language?

I'm working on really short neo-comedy sketches. You have to read them about a dozen times before getting them, but when you do you inevitably end up with a philosophically mind-blowing conclusion. Not for brainlets.

Here is one
::
I'm peeling onions in the kitchen while my dude is sitting at
the table.
"Say," I say, "you ever get your eyes tired from looking at
your phone for a while, so you stare directly at the sun for a
few minutes?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Doesn't seem to work, does it?"
"No, I guess not."
::

I write in English sometimes

I don't get it.

Meditate on metaphysics, value theory, and aesthetics, it will eventually snap into place. If not, you might be a brainlet.

Here is another one
::
I yell to a friend, "Tell me something."
"What?" he yells back.
"You ever eat bread?"
"Yes, all the time. Every day, even."
"Bread tastes good, right?"
"I guess so."
"What about water?"
"What about it?"
"It also tastes pretty good."
"I don't think it tastes like anything."
"Like bread?"
"Kind of."
"But if you combine them together?"
"How?"
"You take a sip of water while chewing bread."
"It tastes awful."
"Yes, exactly."
"I see."
::

On on the second episode of an epic adventure serial.

Episode one: A folk hero is wrongfully accused of murdering the prince and put on trial, this wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact he has lied about the heroic deeds which made him famous in the first place. With his word as a man who can be believed on the line, so is his life.

Episode Two:

A) The folk hero, after being wrongfully sentenced by the highest court in the land for the murder of the prince, has fled to the magical Wish Mountain, where he seeks sanctuary in a magical village. This journey is perilous, and he bounty hunters and lawman on his tail.

B) The fugitive hero is cornered by lawmen. He is able to get the upper hand and has a change to show the lawmen mercy, he chooses not to, and kills the lawman, and directly after he finds himself cursed by a magical storm. He must now accept the burden of his curse as he continues still onward to sanctuary village.

C) He comes across a wounded soldier who begs for his help to take him to a nearby camp. The hero, burdened by his lack of mercy before, decides to help the wounded soldier, who, if the soldier knew who the fugitive really is, would surely betray him and hand him over to the law.

Story is edited and I cried twice while reading it, so I think we have a winner. Wish I could write happy things.

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Sorry, I only wrote one English poem. I'm a native Swiss German speaker, so I wrote most of them in German. But here goes, plz no bully:

From summer skies has been drawn a tender mist,
A darkened night, as I beheld thee fair;
This utter joy, and hope that thou inspire'st
Like leaves of ancient oaks, that fell onto your hair

In days of yonder, when through shady groves flew wind
And highest dreams of mine now ride on waxing moon
Forsook the days of pain, as wondrous life revealed
The peaks of longing, as they pierce the heart so soon

Undaunted, I, awaking from my slumber
Beheld thine eyes, this smiling wond'rous glance
Here shall we feast: 'tis not the time to ponder
And thou shalt lead me, into life's pagan dance

One nightly wish was born to me in winter
When snow across the endless fields did lay
End this despair, and sweeten years so bitter!
Lest through the mists of time, a soulless wand'rer I must stay.

It's pretty and well written but incredibly generic.

I'm trying to write poetry rn in english and spanish. I felt in love with it and i want to attempt at telling something through it.

Slaves to the flesh;
To the mundane figure of a faceless cut
Not more than merely pidgeons,
Following the baker
right into the stove.

Like grapping an apple
From the smallest tree,
Is the loving with no love
Summoned with no spell;
just making a wish.

Thanks - I know about the generic thing, this is because my main inspiration is Minnesang = Middle High German love and praise poems that are highly conventionalized and always work with similar symbols and associations. My German poems are a little less generic though, or at least I hope so.

Hey user, I've been keeping up with your posts in the last several /write/ threads, and just want to encourage you to keep it up. I like reading your posts. Hope you're doing alright.

>tfw my professor said my paper was the best she ever received from a student at my community college
It was in English I. She said her colleague thought it was from a graduate student at the local university. Got to go home early because I didn't need to stay and write a second draft.

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writing has gotten extremely stressful for me. I don't think I'm going to be able to do any until the next wave of hypomania reaches me.

I hate depending on these rushes of motivation, but when I try to defy them it always ends poorly and discourages me from trying

I starting a story about a young naive lamb who trusts and loves his master, then on a day like any other, all of a sudden the old reliable shepherd prepares him as a sacrifice. For the story I adapt parts of my life. This would be childhood, I'm sure we can all relate:

>The lamb lay in the grass on the field, with nothing going on in particular. The sky was blue and only a few thin wisps of white, with the sun shinning unabated and a pleasant cool breeze to keep from searing its hide. The heat of the sun was pleasurable. It stared on onto the plain and onto the fence. In this moment there was immense comfort and the lamb was lulled into a blissful state of contentedness that felt like it would last forever. All was idyllic and satisfactory in the life of this animal.
>Gently its master interrupted its trance and carried it back home to the cottage. The night passes without an utterance among the herd. Life is simple. Life is gentle. Life is young.

I had an idea for a short story about a guy who dreams of the girl he loves and he makes it out of the sand in his dreams. He fucks her and love her, but then he can't sleep anymore so he declares his love to the irl girl, and he likes him as well. But when he kisses her she feels inferior to his dream girl. I was gonna make it a short story but ended up making it a poem

I've been writing porn because it's fun and as practice for showing emotions without stating them (which has honestly been hard) and yeah, I've found that writing when horny distracts you a lot, but writing to get horny lets me easily write 2k words in an hour or less (quality aside).

haven't started it yet, i'm waiting 'til i can get back to my hometown so i can draw from my surroundings to write it. it's somewhat a critique of the culture there, and how fucked and fake shit is, and shines a light on the beauty in some forms of degeneracy that take place there, with a quasi-sci-fi dilemma that drives the story.

i'm going on a pilgrimage all summer, and will be intensively reading and writing, developing my skills and self, and when i get back to the homeland i'll write something that debases it in every way i can hope for.

How come you post so many cute anime boys?

I exclusively write in English, even though my native language is Spanish. Maybe it's because I've been reaing stuff in English all my life, but wrtiting in Spanish feels awkward. Also, it gives me an excuse not to show people I know what I write since none of them understand it.

Do community college babysitters really insist on calling themselves professors? lol.

I wrote 10 sentences today

>Also, it gives me an excuse not to show people I know what I write since none of them understand it

hello low self esteem

Based. English is a better language for writing in anyway.

Kind of? But not really. I've just had enough experiences when people ask me what I'm writing, I tell them and they look at me like they didn't really care. Now I just tell them "it's in English" and if they're really interested, they still ask. If not, they leave it at that.
Also some of it is porn and I don't want people finding that

What's your homeland?

You need to get over it or you will never be a writer. You need to be able to write every day. Even if what you write is sometimes shit, the important thing is maintaining the habit.

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Rapid City, South Dakota

p.s. i don't plan on staying there, just long enough (two weeks tops) to get a first draft together, and then i'm getting the fuck out again. i'll continue revising it somewhere else until it's complete.

Opening a poem with a boldfaced cliched is not the best way to start. Also learn to describe things plainly before trying all this hermetic shit. Read William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost.

john green?

>tfw you read your journal entries from where you were 17 years old
that enthusiasm. that inner burning fire of teenage love, filling my day and night, making me take notes, write love poems at 3 sometimes 4 am.
>tfw you fast forward and read journal entries from where you were 19, 20, 21, etc. years old
>tfw you realize each year you have the same problems
>tfw you realize you didn't stick with what you promised yourself

who else /wastedyouth/? It's more than likely that I will get my college degree next year, start working in a fucking office job, keep dreaming about a career about screenwriting or writing in general and becoming a walking corpse, just like the rest of the world.

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I'm writing a story about a 20 yo virgin who is trying to turn his mom into his sexual slave

gross

Early 2017...
A fifteen year old Muslim girl named Sara lives in a province of Syria that’s controlled by ISIS. Everyday she toils to care for her bedridden, dementia/cancer laden grandfather. She never knew her father and grandpa tells her that her mother died sometime in 2004 in Iraq shortly after Sara was born. She’s forced to wear a full burqa when she goes out and after she’s almost raped by a some inbred fuckstick, she uses the Silk Road/dark web/black market to purchase a collapsible .308 with a suppressor and 100 rounds of subsonic ammo. This gun here m.youtube.com/watch?v=OwBMG_F-5EE
The. Proceeds to wage an “enemy at the gates” style sniper war against the caliphate (after studying YouTube videos on long distance shooting/sniping) while also caring for her delirious grandfather who has fits of PTSD about his time as a sniper fighting against the soviets during the 80’s. His rants also reveal the secret that Sara’s mother was the secret identity of the elusive and deadly “JUBA” sniper
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba_(sniper)
that killed numerous US service members during the Iraq war. By being crafty and learning to hide her weaponry under her clothes, Sara plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with ISIS as she hunts for blinds and evades patrols.
Tentatively titled “the sixth pillar”
Writing chapter two as we speak. It should be done by Halloween.

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That's cute. I'd read that.
He's the anime version of Osamu Dazai.
Thank you. I'm trying to improve my physical situation, because my last few months were such a hell I feel like I've lived 3 lifetimes of anguish in this space of time, but it's finally looking up. In this time I've written two shitty half-finished novel manuscripts and one good one which is nearly complete, plus a bundle of short stories, and gained a definite direction for how I want to write. Posting here has helped me be more productive--sorry if I've annoyed anyone. I'm significantly less depressed now and the nightmares have stopped.

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In the spirit of encouraging writing, here's a free tool for planning your novel.

hiveword.com/

what's the type of poem called that follows an ABACBDECFDEGHFGH rhyme scheme. i wrote one of those.

I'm re-writing the first novel I wrote. I stand behind the story, but my writing was shit way back when I wrote it. I've been working on it for going on 4 or 5 years.

I got another book I'm sending around to agents, no word on that at all though.

I got a bunch of short stories I could be writing if I wanted to. I'm kind of burnt out on short stories though, I mean it's a lot of fucking work to write them, in fact they're harder to write than novels. Then sending them around to magazines and shit is a hassle. I get published fairly regularly, but to this date I'm pretty sure that not a single person has read any of them, I've received 0 feedback in the few years I've been getting published, and honestly nothing at all has come of them, besides me being able to brag about a few publishing credits....which don't seem to matter for anything.

Everyone wastes their youth. It's too cliche to be interesting.

Is this actually useful though? So far I've been fine just using word.

Being able to drag around the scenes is helpful for me, and I like being able to jot down notes in them.

Haven't written in over a year. Every time I try I cringe and stop.

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You need to write shit before you can write anything of value. It's just part of the process.

You don't have the necessary energy of delusion as Tolstoy calls it. Yeah, writing is fucking stupid. Still worth doing tho

Im currently trying to get over that feeling of inadequacy when writing. I know that, as a beginner, my stuff wont match great authors of the past, but everytime I start to write something, I feel like Im wasting my time on stupid shit. Thats why I want to finish a story, even if its shit, just to prove to myself that I can actually finish something.
Also trying to write something everyday, even if its just one of those writing exercises that get regularly posted here.

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Everyone starts out shit. Most people write multiple novels before they are ever published. Don't be discouraged, if you keep trying you can succeed.

Thanks, I will keep at it.

I'm writing a screenplay (inb4 not lit) set in interwar Berlin about an alienated veteran who begins work as a servant to an aged aristocrat, who eventually tasks the protagonist with murdering his son.

It's influenced by many sources, including Bauhaus philosophy, neo-Mazdaznan philosophy, Hindu scriptures, the New Testament and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films, specifically Chinese Roulette (1976).

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I might send this to Sargon as fan art.

The face is uncanny now I look at it.

What's the best way to get back into the habit of writing?

The first time I managed it, I set a 500 word a day goal, but lately I haven't been able to hold to it and a lot of the time I get so anxious when it's time to write that it hurts physically.

I've heard a telling yourself to just write for 15 minutes is a good technique, but 15 minutes doesn't seem like enough time to write anything

>
I've heard a telling yourself to just write for 15 minutes is a good technique, but 15 minutes doesn't seem like enough time to write anything

It's enough at first to establish the habit. Focus on writing every day, even if it’s only 50-100 words. Once you get into the habit of daily writing, it will be easy to write more than that. The habit, not that amount written per day, is the most important thing. If you habitually write you will make progress, no matter what.

There's a relationship between the action of writing and your relationship to what you're writing.

For instance, my last project I was writing for hours, everyday, because I was so passionate about the actual content of what I was writing.

Since finishing that, I have spent the last year and a half starting and stopping projects - sometimes I'd get a quarter in, or maybe more, but I haven't been so fully immersed in a story since that last one that I never finished them, nor kept a steady writing habit with them.

When it feels like an obligation, it can become demoralising. It's tough.

Maybe you've just not found something that you're truly, deeply compelled to finish.

However, I've found online spaces and communities that actively discuss writing to be highly motivating and engaging - despite the constant criticism that these are bastions of procrastination. I'd recommend seeking Discord servers / any group of writers to interact with, if that's your type of thing.

I agree with this user. all that "15 minutes a day" is redditor shit. if you have something to write you'll write it without forcing yourself.

that might be some bullshit zen answer, but it doesn't solve the fucking problem if you NEED to write

Do you have any suggestions? Certain servers or sites? Where to look for them even? I have a group of people that I write with, and it helps tremendously usually, but they've all gotten into a major slump lately and I'm dying. The fact that I'm not getting any comments or critique is literally fucking killing me, especially since they're normally my go-to guys for just that.

I continually write TG erotica everyday, as now it seems to be the only way I get off now.

The books fine too, mostly just some ideas written down and characters developed. Going for a neo-PKD vibe, so maybe I'll get there if I drop some acid with my one friend who keeps offering.

I did it, I submitted the short story to two contests. I'm really terrified, actually. Sold some possessions today that paid the fees.
Have another short story half-written; it's wholesome and sweet about a girl doing something really nice for her younger brother. I wish I had a cute little brother. tfw.
I'm going to get drunk now because I'm really nervous. Probably wasted $38 but oh well, cheaper than college tuition as far as "career prep" goes, and I can always just make more money, I guess. I think it's sincerely a good story, it'll just be hit or miss if the judge happens to like romantic despair.

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First page of a sci-fi novel that's been simmering in my head since freshmen year of high school. Started it about 3 weeks ago, only 5 pages in so far. I have been trying to put arbitrary word limits on myself but it doesn't seem to work, productivity still remains inconsistent. Maybe after this semester ends i'll have more time for it during the summer.

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I'm writing a retelling of Neon Genesis Evangelion with less Christian mythology and more dinosaurs. It's extremely fun but complete trash so far.

sounds fun, i'd read it user.

wrote 370 words today. It's not much but it's something. I think a 250-word goal is enough to get me back into the swing of things. If I can keep it up for a week I'll try to up the goal back to 500

Fuck, I'm slowly turning my character into some sort of Patrick Bateman. If it's coming from a real place, my yoga-on-coke scene should be passing, right?

A series of five video games called the liber series. Four out of five have dragons in them.

Is that real place /biz/ coiners?

+ When I want to see Null+

You form a puzzle whenever you look at something so if I told myself I would get better today at something and actually do it what would happen, in the after or what if it never happens well then that would be amazing for me because either way I accomplish nothing with my life and just continue to see the sky and ponder about something rather then rather nothing or all. So the question of doing something never existed in the first place, if something really never existed in the first place then don't question it just exceed your thoughts and think a little bit more faster on the darker aspects of life, which are if. I can talk about anything on a sequence of thoughts formed up randomly so in order for that to happen something never existed so on my basis of something never existed what am I talking about, exactly nothing and on the process of nothing and no words existing then what only matters is nothing, forming up words is only something that I can come out with so in the first or last place of a word that would mean nothing is everything and when that happens nothing ever happens so to even say or think that something would even be a problem in the first place everything would be ok, too even breathe would be ok flat out at this point in time but that's the thing. Actually in particular being melancholy would do nothing for me in this time but why even see or breathe out air if something is bad for me, I keep on exceeding my own expectations for myself in a way so nothing will ever happen or change in my life but there's one more thing to consider about life which is life is life, so considering something and the process of someone being sad shouldn't exist and I keep on talking when nothing exists, and so when someone does nothing with their life and tries to write it seems like there's a stem in their thought process which keeps them from not doing anything with their life, like nothings wrong, incorrect spelling. On being month one or two seeing or hearing only particulates something particular so when nothing happens month gets better in different aspects of areas of only ways to use things in a brand new way to eliminate all day terminals to create a better process for you in null. Last only happens when someone hurts you but since usefulness exists there's something to do each day in process. To be null and actually seeing and actually getting some out takes no time at all. Null will happen halls will never get better and so forth, you go.

Amazon took my book off of sale because someone bought it and complained about it being low quality.

How can I regain confidence in my writing? I've been off and on for months because everything my fingers type out feels like garbage. I'm not happy at all with anything I'm doing

Weird. They removed the only review of mine, I'm sure probably because they strongly disagree with the political content in it.

Whatever though, I basically made up the book as a test case to see whether you can trust amazon or not to have your back, you can't.

》have a great idea the day before I go away camping
》can't write, but tortured by ideas
》know that when I get home I won't write anything anyway
Reee

If you do miss a day the important thing is to not dwell on it and abandon the goal. Just keep going the next day.

Just keep practising. The more you write and read the better you will become. It's like learning an instrument or language, it takes time and dedication.

>I have been trying to put arbitrary word limits on myself but it doesn't seem to work
I can relate to this, when I put an arbitrary word limit I tend to just write nonsensical stuff to knock it out. I wish there was a better way to exercise writing

You could have a time goal, rather than a word count goal. Try and write for at least 30 minutes every day or something.

Your advice sounded good so I tried. It doesn't work.
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No one here is going to believe me, which is actually a good thing since I can keep plausible deniability. I've had 4 scripts i wrote made now, three were "movie franchise" films and one was up for numerous awards during the season and actually won a few. Have a ton of offers fro many now, including netflix and hbo, no idea right now what I plan to do. This was, of course, before the Academy caved to the "#OscarsSowhite" bullshit, thus we get the insanest spectacle of seeing fucking Spike Lee (!!!) receiving an Oscar.
I can tel you that in private, White members of the academy are fucking FURIOUS since the entire thing is now a joke, where backs only vote for fucking blacks no matter the performance, and they do so as a bloc.
And I'm not claiming that no black EVER has deserved an Oscar. Forrest Whitaker's performance as Idi Amin in "The Last Kind of Scotland" was one of the best I've eve ever seen. But NOW, they just give the wards since they are black!
This is the reason, I and MANy other have turned away from "restive" films and are just fucking cashing on on capeshit and other franchises, since everyone now knows the Oscars are essentially rigged.
Doubt anyone believes me, but that's fine. If anyone has any generic questions about the industry I can answer w.o. revealing who I am (for fear of the mob backlash over my opinions), I will do my best. So ask if you want to get involved in film and want some idea of what it takes.

That's better than nothing. Eventually, if you get into the habit of writing every day it will be easier.

Assuming you are telling the truth: of all the possible things you could have written, all the interesting insight in writing and having success or the peculiar form of writing scripts, you chose to post this?

oh, so it's not that you suck at writing, its that you suck at writing AND you're a piece of shit

>since I was a kid I knowed that the reality of the writer is based on two principles: the first is the word, written or spoken, which can transformate the world, the second is the own world which can do nothing to do with the words; for most of the people, the body comes before the words, which in my case was the contrary.

>in an those years i have written novels, plays, short stories, poems... amounts of papers lay on my desk, and each one of them is an exploration of the painful and dramatic dichotomies of life. But the more and more I wrote, the idea that word isn't enough was more strong in my mind. The idea of literature as a passive act, in my own words: femenine, was more and more clear, and with it the own weakness of art.

>How I could find a solution to the tragic position in which I was? I was disgusted from my own body and my effeminate esence. One day the path was clear in front my eyes: art is weak and limited but the human will can overcome the hardest quests and the strongest opositions. A radical change would start in my life

>The first point was my weak body, so for this reason I sarted going to the gym to transform it, taking the model of the beautiful greek statues of the classical period. After developing a strong body I transformed my own writting, replacing the vague meditations and sensual worlds of my characters for a heroic impulse and a sense of urgency through my prose, with strong characters with a developed will.

movies are fagged up...no news there.
>2019
>still caring about movies and television
it's a dying boomer industry. literature is superior.

>work in the most Jewish form of media other than porn
>surprised when the awards push the Jews' agenda

Just started writing a story about a guy who allucinates a talking chicken who predicts the guy's death.
I have no idea on how to gon on nor do I have anything planned. I will just go on randomly and use it as an exercise, I think

Writing horror/dark short stories at the moment. They're entertaining to read and write.

Where's a good place to find a critique partner who writes similar stuff to you?

What do you all personally use as your critique system? Eg. Do you use scribophile etc have a partner

I keep comparing what im writing to my first novel and all I can think is how bad my new stuff is. that lack of confidence just makes me worse, which is killing me because this story mean more to me than that one ever did

>What do you all personally use as your critique system?
Self-hatred.

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How does one branch into non-fiction? What kind of non-fiction doesn't involve being an analyst of some sort? Inventing a story just seems easier.

>At first you don’t. You hold back, stroking the small of her back. You kiss her ear. You nestle in behind her. Finally she says, “What, you’re afraid I’ll break? You’re afraid it’s contagious? Trust me, the cancer will not stick to your dick. It’s not gonna rush up your urethra, pummeling your little spermies on the way, and explode like an IED in your insides. It’s only trying to do that to me.”
This is apparently from a prize winning short story. Am I crazy or is it shit? Even the shit in /crit/ is better, right?

I am writing a horror short story and I read it back and I don't understand what I am writing about.

What do you mean? What is the horror aspect of your story? Like is it about a monster or what?

I'm writing 3 different stories just trying out ideas. 2 are generic medieval fantasy settings (I just love it too much) and one is in modern society with supernatural powers. My aim is to cast aside worldbuilding for now, which I always end up focusing on, and try to write good characters. It's frustration because, I feel like I have an idea of what makes a good character, but I can't put it in paper. How do you people make your character's relationships to each other matter? I always feel like I'm writing them in a vacuum.

It's pretty shit. Nobody talks like that.

Why does only garbage get published with these magazines? Is this what the judges really, honestly want, or is there just no talent applying to them? I've been trying to read poems and short stories from literary magazines and so far I haven't found a single one that was remotely good.

I think in today's self-publish/social media climate there's got to be a severe lack of people applying. Not sure though, maybe I should write something depressing and pretentious as fuck and see if I can get it published. That's generally the theme isn't it?
You're literally me. Stop it. Being me, that is, not focusing on story rather than "muh lore". Maybe we'll finally be the generation of fantasy writers that breaks the "lots of world building and exposition=good" bullshit. I want to read stories damn it, not a D&D splat book. As for relationships the best thing I've found is to look at real life ones around you, and also consider the relationships surrounding the center one. For instance Boy(B) is dating Girl(G). What do G's parents think of B? What about her siblings? Does she have friends? What is their relationship with B? There's a lot of factors that influence relationships no matter what they are, so go through your real life ones and try to break them down. Keep writing my man, we're gonna make it.

Most of these aren't depressing, actually. I've seen them want edgeshit, feminist shit, "strong bold narratives" (bitchy voices), and "laugh out loud funny" stuff. There is a damned lot of pretention, though--the bad kind that comes from redditor retards.

You think there is a lack of applicants? Like, what, they all just post their shit on their own blog instead of going through establishments?

A discworld type fantasy ft. a chess themed world and a book about irish nationalism.

very good yes

Don't worry, you just have to transition and they'll publish any and all of your submissions :)

I'm writing a tragic existential romance novella inspired by Sartre and Kierkegaard. It's mostly an experiment in ruminating philosophically on existence through fiction as opposed to non-fiction, which is what I usually write.

>You think there is a lack of applicants? Like, what, they all just post their shit on their own blog instead of going through establishments?
It sure seems that way. Blogs, Reddit, Tumblr, AO3, etc. Theres such a huge push now to be your own hype guy that I think a lot of people are eschewing traditional means to get their work in the public eye. Which is easier, getting a story printed in a magazine that hardly anybody reads, or going to a site that caters specifically to the people who would read your stuff and shilling your Tumblr page? Which is more effective?

Writing the script to a video I'm trying to make discussing digital content and who should get the money if they are monetized later. Maybe I can ask you all this, since I can't really come to a solid solution.

If a person reposts or steals content from a particular website or source, its pretty much agreed that the person doesn't deserve the money through the minimal effort they performed in re-uploading it. Who should then get the money in a distributed system where original users might not be able to be identified? I'm not under the belief that someone has to get paid, but in the scenario in which people reupload this content for the sole purpose of monetization, then the creation of wealth becomes inevitable and the discussion should then focus on how it ought be distributed. The particular actors I had in mind were either the original content creator, the website that hosted that information, or that it ought be distributed among 'everyone'

I'm writing a book of poems. They're dark and forceful, exposing the rot of the world. I started it after experiencing ego death on the most intense psilocybin trip of my life. It's supposed to make the reader feel as sick to their stomach with existence as I am. I just sort of force the words out like shit. I've been inspired primarily by Nietzsche and Baudelaire, that Zarathustran embrace of decay, anarchy, chaos and nightmares: "There cometh the tarantula willingly: Welcome, tarantula! Black on thy back is thy triangle and symbol; and I know also what is in thy soul.”

I'm writing a children's series about people with psychic powers in space turning into giant robots and beating each other up.

Darling in the FranXX?

unsurprisingly, its my diary desu

>What are you writing, Yea Forums?
A Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk cop story.

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Yea, yea, yea, what' up yo, this is your boy Capone... know me ?
Got my voice filter on the track, killin' it, dog let's do it, let's get money
Everybody out there drivin' their cars at 100 miles plus, this one's for you
No seatbelt wearers
Buckle up, it's the law!
I'll say it like this:
Y'all wanna' see me at House Point
I'm from New York City
A lot of drag racing out here
I'll start it like this, yeah (Rev your cars up!):

Ain't nobody droppin' and stuntin' when driffin' through the lanes
Got the nitro button insane, do donuts in the rain
Like a '64 Impala, holla, you got wheels
Kitted car, candy paint it famous and I got rims
Like Mario Andretti I'm heavy upon that gas pedal
Breakin' competition I'm dippin to get that brass medal
V12 you can't see me, I'm takin' over with speed
I got a fast car, the cash for the bash y'all

[Hook]
I need speed!
When I fly through the hood, the butter-soft leather wood
Them 24's looking good, uh-huh!
They want the keys
The big body coupe drivers, the big truck and low riders
We let no one get by us, uh, uh!
I need speed!
When I'm racin' that strip I got the button and chip
Your car like tells me to strip, uh-huh!
They want the keys
They don't have the wits to describe us
Who ever put in the dollars, holla, we see a car hotter

Yo!
I'm cuttin' corners like I'm crazy
I know how to burn a strip
Me and my car got a bond like we Michael Knight and KITT
Throw in 5th , throw in 4th
Break it back down to 3rd
Bring it back up to 6th once I am around this curve
I feel the tension, not to mention
The intervention from the coppers
We got the bills, pay the ticket, only flat tires can stop us!
Dual exhausts on the Porsche, I red line
Once I'm across the finish you know that it's bad time
What more can I say, I'm true to this
My car's got a computer chip, and with no speed the race, you losin' it!

[Hook]

Hey, yo I'm in a Need for Speed
My ride stampedes with horses
440 in that CL coupe, the wheels' where the torque is
Cuz' I don't obey, when red say stop and green say go
I fly by through your ghetto in the UFO
Unidentified Foreign Object
You can't believe that Aston Martin is parkin' in your projects
No matter what you hoppin', it's elementary Watson
A factory Benz, that might not beat that tricked out
Can't lose the battle when your whole clique out watchin'
And my car come equipped with smoke screen and spit out rockets
Just rev your engines, pop the clutch, burnout
I'll show you how a real street race turn out

[Hook]

[Outro]
Yeah man! I need speed man!
All you race car drivers out there
Everybody with the fast cars
Keep goin' as fast as you can baby, don't look back!

>expecting 4channel, the biggest furry board on the internet, to react badly
yeah I'm closing this tab and going back to my incest yiff, see you guys later

>tfw even 250 words was too much for me in my current mental state

I need help

What are you writing?

a fantasy novel that's extremely personal to me, perhaps too personal. I can separate how I judge the story or the writing from how I judge myself, so when I don't like it I take my own judgement as a statement of my worth.

Hey man, that can honestly be a good way to work through some shit but always remember that its not going anywhere. Maybe take a break and write something absolutely silly, or do what I do and write awful smut. Then when you're feeling more up to it come back and work on it some more. And just imo, the only measure of self worth that comes from writing is whether or not you're actually writing, same with any passion. If you define yourself as a writer but don't write, then you're pretty shit. But if you write, even just a little bit, even something inconsequential, then you're working and you're improving, and that makes you great. Keep at it my man, I believe in you. I'd actually like to take a peek at an excerpt, I bet it's nowhere near as bad as you think it is.

based reference

>yeah I'm closing this tab and going back to my incest yiff, see you guys later
You know I didn't even realise I was into incest until I came across it one day, but it's surprisingly hot. I don't want it in real life but the fantasies are neat.

Good taste user.

Self-entitled prick.

Ah, the epic of self-empowerment daydreams. Keep up the good work user, we've all wanted to write that

Half-hearted revisions yesterday. Was too anxious and irritated. Today I feel /comfy/ and in a much better mood. Need to redo yesterday's attempt, but I could have the entire manuscript finished this weekend.
Trying to force myself to write just doesn't work if I'm not in the right mood. End up screwing things up and doing everything half-heartedly.

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Berlin Airlfit alternate history.
One US aircrew grows hatred for commies after witnessing their crimes and is worried the US will cuck and give Russia control of West Berlin, so he assassinates the commander of the airlift in a false flag to start WW3, knowing he and all the soldiers in the encirclement will be destroyed.

A bit short at the moment.
That is the less autistic project, but anything with Mein Kampf dogwhistles is autistic desu

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I'd like to read it desu. Anyone capable of writing from the perspective of the opposite gender in convincing manner is worthy of respect.

Under the sun
On top of my dick
If it bleeds
It receives

Currently rewriting the opening to what's going to become either a novella or a series of short stories. I realized that I crammed 2, maybe even 3, chapters into one. It's lost the theme because it became rushed so I'm stretching it back out, very carefully of course. I dont want to have filler or pointless exposition, but I don't want to leave things out because I've picked up a blistering pace. Learning a lot because this is the first time I've written something longer than a short story. I'm entirely too anxious/neurotic about it, but learning how to deal with that is part of the process too I suppose.

I like these threads btw. It's cool reading about others going through the creative process.

Did you liked it?

Why are you writing a brainlet version of Sun and Steel

Because that is what I literally have done. I remembered some quotes from the film and I wrote some more based on it. Just fifteen minutes bruh

>film
Why do people do this? Check your address bar.

I don't get your point. It's because we are in Yea Forums? I can't talk about a film that portraits the work and life of a writer?

I have a 10k word story that I need to cut down to at most 6k as per the requirements of the contest I'm submitting to. I suppose it's a better place to be than struggling to finish a story but still frustrating. Here's hoping being forced to cut will improve my editing skills.

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Read the actual book doofus.

My thesis proposal. It's not going anywhere.

How does one world build? I feel like I've just been stealing bits and pieces to make up the setting. Currently, my setting can only be detailed as a messed up sci-fi esqe Venice.

Shit my draft was shittier than I thought. Completely reworking entire paragraphs of garbage into something decent. I'll still need a third draft at this rate. I'm going to start printing chapters from the community printer on the sly. Last manuscript I thought it was great and edited and all, then I printed it and found enough errors and clumsy phrasing to make you want to kill yourself. Anyway, the revised draft is much better if nothing else. The story itself is great, the prose is just total trash. This is what I get for writing drunk.

Do you guys physically print your stuff for secondary editing?

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I'm too embarrassed to write anything out of fear of someone finding it and reading it. I guess I'm just paranoid.

I've decided that since right now I don't trust my writing all that much, I'm going to take a break from my novel and instead make a habit of going on leddit and fielding /r/writingsprompts every day.

The point is to build up a habit and get more comfortable writing without having any personal investment. If people like them, they like them. If they don't, they don't. Hopefully a few upvotes will boost my confidence

Any writers here want to tell me:

- What are your favorite fonds of the novels you read?
- What are the most popular fonds used by publishers of novels?
- What font and letterspacing/-size do you use when typing/writing in Word/digital text-programs?
- What programs do you use to write?

I'm writing aswell at the moment, but I'm keep blocking myself over such trifles, mostly because I'm wanting to self-publish, which means I have to edit everything myself. Prefer to do it well immediatly to save myself some hassle later down the line.

>I've just been stealing bits and pieces to make up the setting.
That's world building.

Is that it? Currently it's just a threesome of 3 Kamachi series.

papyrus. every reputable publisher uses either papyrus or comic sans.
go to google for your fucking homework you retard

Dont fall for the world building meme. Write your story and come up with things as you need them.
Make a throwaway Google account and use Docs. You are just paranoid.
You're procrastinating is what you're doing. If you're in the process of writing then none of that shit matters in the fucking slightest right now. Worry about that shit when you've completely finished.

steal from a wider variety of sources until it no longer looks like a "'This Thing + Other Thing"

Working on the 4th draft of my novel. This draft is for clarity of language of smoothness of prose. I'm not making many changes. Once I finish the 4th, I'll give it like two weeks or so to sit and do a 5th draft looking at the same things before I start submitting it. Its around 160k words. I hope to be done by mid/late May in the most likely scenario, and by August at the worst. I've been working on this for a long time. I don't expect it be to accepted anywhere, but oh well. At least I'll know that I wrote one, totally and completely.

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is this a musical? reminds me of goethe desu

If the ideal wordcount is 80k, shouldn't you split it in two?

Trying to write a play about loneliness but I'm worried it might be impossible. I don't want any monologues, I just want people to recognize the main character's longing. The only idea I have right now to make it work is disparate interactions where she reaches out in subtle ways, interactions confined to economic relationships -- waiters, ticket booths, store clerks, etc. The sum of the parts would communicate her solitude and how desperate for human connection she is. But still, I think you need to see her eyes for it to work, I think it needs to be a film. But there's no point writing a film because it'll never get made.

What's the novel about, user?

its just a middling pot boiler in hopes it'll get my foot in the door. Thankfully, by upending a trope or two and by finding a way to slip in some relevant philosophy I've made it more interesting for myself. The amount of "pride" I have it in waxes and wanes depending on the day.

If I know a story that's important to me is never going to be good enough to meet my standards, should I abandon it?

Pleb way: drop it and forget it.

Enlightened way: reflect on your expression, work to remove the flaws, and raise your skills to the level where you can tell the story in its best possible form.

>raise your skills
how does one does this, seriously. Writing everyday without any external input doesn't seem to help

>trusting google

LMAO

Yes, I'm paranoid.

No, it doesn't. You need good, honest critique. This is the hardest part of writing in my experience. Most people will read it and tell you "Hey that's great man, I liked it." If pressed they'll ask questions about the narrative, and you'll smile and thank them for the input, screaming internally. Finding a knowledgeable, experienced editor is a massive pain in the balls. My best advice is to make friends who are serious readers, or find some sort of group online. When asking people to look at your stuff make sure to specifically use the word "critique." If you receive feedback in person do not react anyway but positively or you will put the person off from helping in the future. If its online dont get butthurt and fly off the handle. Some of the best critiques I've ever gotten have come from the person that knows me the best, my wife (I got supremely lucky there, honestly) and from people who know jack shit about me, which is here. Anons have torn my shit to pieces more than once, and I'm a better writer for it. After I got over my super hurt feelings, of course. Seriously it never really stops stinging when someone tells you your writing is shit, but it's very very important to get feedback. Give us an excerpt, maybe a few kind anons will take a peak at it for you. I will.
Who are you worried is going to find your stuff? You can hide files on your computer, even password protect them if need be. But more importantly, what are you scared of? What are you afraid is going to happen if it gets found? Paranoid user to paranoid user, you can tell me. I'm extremely physically paranoid, to the point where I shot my reflection in the hallway mirror one night after I thought I heard someone in the house. It was a cat. My cat. I also chased a raccoon around with a repro cavalry saber once, but that's neither here nor there.

>to the point where I shot my reflection in the hallway mirror one night after I thought I heard someone in the house.
I'm making a note of this to include in the next depressing thing I write.

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>Give us an excerpt, maybe a few kind anons will take a peak at it for you. I will.
I'd gladly do that, but I write in another language, that's where most of the difficulty in finding an online community comes from.

Is it depressing? I always tell it as a funny story about how my cat and I finally settled our differences. He did stop rampaging through the house at three in the morning.
Damn that is a shame. I dont have any advice pertaining to that at all my man, sorry. Just keep reading and writing and searching, hopefully you'll find somewhere you can get good, solid critique.

The imagery of shooting a reflection of yourself could be portrayed as bleak.

how do i write better, whether its essays, analysis or a short story my writing is fucking garbage

P L A N
S T R U C T U R E

Ah, I see. I mean in the actual context of being so supremely paranoid that I leapt out of my bed and shot the first human shape that I saw, only for it to turn out to be my reflection is kind of poetic. Tack on the drinking and it might even be a metaphor about acute paranoia fueling addictive behavior that will eventually lead to the complete destruction of my self, by my self. Probably why I always make it a funny story IRL.
What do you mean by "writing"? Be more specific. This is always good advice though.

are there resources you guys can point to that can help improve every aspect of writing, vocab, structure, planning etc

I only write for pleasure but I'm just putting together some /comfy/ short stories with some horror or unease-type elements, and then I'll work on a novel which I hope will be something more optimistic than all the "dude nihilism lmao" shit that gets pumped out nowadays.
Keep at it, these feelings are normal. Everyone feels like their thesis will be shit.
For me, I even had such a bad relationship with my advisor he now refuses to work on anything I'm working on, but I managed to overcome it. There always seems to be a period where everything feels like it's shit and then things get better after that.

writin a story for ur mom

The most helpful thing you can do is to fill out a table like pic related for your story. Pic related was for a transformers fanfic I never actually got around to writing. Once you have this table, then start planning out the novel scene by scene.

E.g.
>Scene 1:
Summary: Decepticons attack West German facility. Thrash gets brain damage and captured.
Plots: Main
Point of View: Random Autobot?
>Scene 2:
Optimus Prime has a conference with the humans about the Decepticon attack and what to do. Thrash comes up and they decide to reformat him and give him a second chance.
Plots: Main, Subplot 1
Point of View: Optimus? Human?
>Scene 3:
Megatron reacts to losing in West Germany by ordering the biological weapons program be accelerated. Reveals that there are captured humans.
Plots: Subplot 2.
Point of View: Thundercracker?
>Scene 4:
Thrash is brought back online without memories. His last memory is from before the war, when Shockwave knocked him out to transfer him into his new soldier body. He's confused as fuck.
Plots: Main
Point of View: Thrash

etc. etc. until you've done the whole novel.

Regarding structure: see how the main plot is introduced and then left hanging? I do this to create suspense, and the subplot scenes give the illusion of time passing as well. That's what people mean when they say "pacing." The closer to the end of the book you get, the less fucking around there should be and the more things should happen straight away. The subplots and the main plot merge so that it's bang bang bang all happening at once together.

Regarding vocab: just read more lol.

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Elements of Style. It's great. Aside from that, actively read authors you like, truly study them. Read a lot. As for vocab, the reading should cover it, but there are plenty of apps for your phone that will help. It takes a lot of work to write well, there's no real "how-to" honestly. You have to cultivate your skill just like any other art.

>Elements of Style. It's great.

Someone should make a recommendation chart, but just for writing advice books. Stuff like Stephen King's on Writing and How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by OSC.

I'm considering a story in which things continue to degrade on a socio-cultural level, which is what the Christchurch shooter anticipates and desires, which he is indeed getting at the moment, and that it ultimately degrades into physical conflict across the West. Not North vs South like the US Civil War, not Communist Socialism vs National Socialism like the Eastern Front of WWII, not Capitalism vs Socialism like during the Cold War, but more broadly, Left vs Right. I do not view Nazism as right-wing. In some ways, yes, but they are also leftist in many ways too. Restriction of gun ownership is left-wing, restriction of free speech is left-wing at least in this day and age (where we currently find the Overton Window), large Government (very left-wing), and indeed today it's also the radical left who are pushing the most for identity politics. Saying that the group is more important than the individual. It seems to me as though the left are becoming more and more authoritarian, while the right is leaning more and more towards libertarianism. Big Government vs small Government. High taxation vs low taxation. So there is a degree of Socialism vs Capitalism at play but it's not the foremost issue of the West, though it is one of many issues.

I also gave consideration to a 'race war', but I don't think that's it at all. Most people, at least on the right, don't care about race. Indeed I myself am a right-winger and if a Black or Arab or Asian man came to me and said he wants freedom of speech, a firm economic foundation of Capitalism even if there's some social programs placed carefully upon it, they accept Christianity as the primary religion that developed the West and doesn't wish to change that, they want controlled immigration that is based on merit, and support the institute of marriage and thinks the current state of the families of the West is tragic, then I will shake that non-White person's hand and welcome them as a fellow man of the West even though it is MY White ancestors that helped develop the West far more than THEIR non-White ancestors. So no, I don't think a race war is where we're headed, though I do believe that most non-Whites (maybe save for Asians) will be on the side of the left while most of the people on the right will be White, but it won't be exclusive. Hell, even if we accept the Proud Boys as being a 'far right group', the fact that they openly accept non-Whites is another display of how we don't bloody care about race. It's all about merit, libertarianism, individual rights and responsibilities. Equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome.

So yeah... that's an idea I've been toying with.

thanks hopefully i git gud

>Someone should make a recommendation chart, but just for writing advice books
Yeah, but not only reccomending books, but also the steps necessary to actually start writing anything. It would avoid a lot of commonly asked questions.

I might work on something tomorrow afternoon. I don't know about books but I'll do a "suggestions for how to write your novel" infographic thing that might be useful for an OP.

Even the simplest technique of organizing the elements of a short story before writing it could be useful to someone, so whatever you do it's still gonna be useful

I am writing a song. I used to try to write poems and short stories, but then I joined a comedy-metal band. Writing music lyrics is fun, and my band has an album available on itunes which is sort of the equivalent of vanity publishing but what the heck, some people buy it. We have fans. I have even signed autographs! We are working on a Christmas album now, hope to have it done by November. If you want to get your writing out there, try writing music!

How do you write music? Lyric is one thing, but how do you manage to make it match the rhytm? Also do you write the Lyrics before or after the melody?
Post album btw

Usually I write lyrics, then try to come up with a bass line, then the others come up with guitar parts, etc and then the whole thing gets modified as we try to make it work. It can be chaotic, when we start to throw ideas back and forth. It is very much a group effort, and we each contribute differently to each song.

itunes.apple.com/album/us/all-you-can-eat/1054531737

Or find us at hjack.net where you can hear our latest projects and see vids etc.

Pic related, us out of costume, working in the studio.

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Finalising the edits to an art magazine I run. Readership is up, printing 2,000 copies this run. Am hyped.

You might as well tell us the title.

No thanks, staying user

That would be highly appreciated, and something I could use myself. I definitely need to learn some outlining basics.

>unironically being a libertarian
>not being a monarchist
never gonna make it

So I am reaching a point where I have a pile of finished short stories, a finished manuscript, and a mostly finished second one. How do I actually go about trying to get these published? Is there a guide anywhere or is the best way literally just sending out fleets of emails? Would competitions be better?

How do you go about creating a satisfacting middle and ending? How do you do plot twists well?

I've given thought to monarchism. I like the element of including God in the picture, a figure that has given an individual much power but a figure that the individual could never truly be. I also think that specifically a constitutional monarchy may be good, so that there is indeed a lot of power in the hands of the monarch but there are limitations and some checks and balances.

The Americans seem to have a very good system. A constitutional republic, not a democracy but a democratic republic in which individuals are voted to represent the public's desires. Very individualistic, which is very American. They also include God in the Constitution if I'm not mistaken, after all, they say that the 1st and 2nd Amendments are God-given rights, which I think is a good call. What is given by God can be taken away by nobody, but what is given by Government can be taken away by Government.

So what's the difference between a 'constitutional republic' and a 'constitutional monarchy'? Well, with the republic, the primary leader is elected every 4 years but generally cannot serve more than 2 terms, so typically a maximum of 8 years per President. Assumedly, with a monarchy, someone very popular and hopefully capable would announce that God had given him or her the power to lead, or the right to lead. If the people like this monarch then there is no coup and they accept leadership. I assume they remain in power until they die or perhaps become medically unfit to lead, like if they ended up with dementia. After them, someone who has been groomed since childhood would take their place, having learned what works and what doesn't work based on their parent's experiences, and hopefully does as good or even better a job at leadership.

But... what if a poor leader comes about? Can there be a 'vote of no-confidence'? An impeachment? If the monarch refuses to cede the throne, is the only option a violent revolution a la US War of Independence, 1789 France, or something of that nature? I need a better understanding of the systems before I can decide which I am more in favour of. I definitely believe in individual rights and freedoms.

Get an agent first.

Just create charters with goals. Have them try and at first fail to achieve those goals. Then end with a conclusion to their arc.

How does one do that? Do I just try and engage literary agencies and send them my work and cover letters, or is there some better way to get into contact with agencies?

penguin.co.uk/articles/company/blogs/the-agent--how-to-pitch-your-book-/

This should help.

If the plot is good you don't need a twist.
>what is google

I have been googling. I was wondering if there was some other better way.

>ABACBDECFDEGHFGH

Sounds like onomatopoeia for vomiting.

What about an elective constitutional monarchy where a parlament chooses a king and can impeach him at will?

So basically an Oligarchy with a puppet president?

Yes, but the parlament would be composed of the most capable and educated citizens, no matter the caste, thus they'd be the most capable to choose their ruler. That's how it would ideally work, anyway.

> parliament would be composed of the most capable and educated citizens

Who decides who is most capable?

An Educated Oligarchy.
Nothing new, doesn't work for long.

An impartial burocracy so that nepotism and favoritism can be prevented.

Eh, I think the US system would be better. It still has God at the tippy-top, and though I don't think Trump is particularly religious I do highly appreciate how he repeatedly mentions 'Almighty God'. He knows that the majority of America are Christian, smart man. Anyhow the whole '2-party system' is a bit questionable, but they have the senate, and they have the house, so it's not like President is some kind of all-powerful ruler, which is good. We'll see how things go.

Who decides who is on the impartial bureaucracy?

What happens if two people are equally qualified but hold opposite opinions?

>Who decides who is on the impartial bureaucracy?

I do.

/write/, I've got a character that Im debating whether or not I should include in my story. She was intended to be a main character but her thing is that she's kind of weak and cowardly. The MC, himself being weak (though not cowardly) and extremely insecure resents how much of himself he sees in her and is kind of an asshole to her. Im worried that if I include her, both of them will seem unsympathetic, but it will also mean that they'll share the most pivotal scene in the novel, which will have a massive impact on both their character arcs. If I leave her out, the scene will still happen, but it will be less emotional

Some original superhero stuff. I tend to throw a lot of Horror style on there but lighter stuff can be fun to do too.

I'm frustrated because I'm starting to notice that every sentence I write basically boils down to
>[Noun] does things.
And everything I try to do to circumvent that just delays that sentence and makes it longer rather than changing it.
>Try as I might, [noun] still does things.
I swear I was better at writing five years ago.

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Include her. I wouldn't concern myself overly with characters being sympathetic as long as the narrative is richer for their inclusion. Dont neuter your story just because you're afraid readers wont relate to your protagonist or other characters.

>said I'd be done by the end of the weekend
>nowhere close, been fucking around and laying on the bed in despair most of the time
Well. Guess I still have ~5 hours before bed. So much rewriting... Might be able to finish if I can stay awake. Much thanks to my lovely neighbors who wanted to throw a party after quiet hours last night. Had to go tell them to shut up and by then I was too awake to fall back asleep. You can't win no matter what.
I get pretty autistic about varying my sentence length. You can lay a paragraph out to read like a poem if you arrange the lengths in an interesting cadence. Unless it's a unique case or I'm intentionally doing making them longer for poetic reasons, they tend to have four clauses at most, though, and usually just two or three. Action parts I keep them shorter to make everything sound like it's happening fast. Sentences are pretty awesome.

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Start of a envious day always likes to end well. To even breathe a moment in a place where you don't feel safe in your mind that's where underground always is. To feel a good way in a where no one can realize you feel drowsy, you might as well soft to feel feelings as you go down into depression, to realize one's truth is to compromise yourself in null but wherever that is your breathing system won't work anymore, when you actually start seeing and believing in differences that's when nothing happens in your life because, were just talking about null in different categories in which no one has found a way out yet. To see the series of blue is to see the series of orange in five different ways. And to reuse a a word is to. Promising a point where to read is becoming indifferent then doing something else, is a good way to keep on living. Season always start of with a rain forecast because it's not even there, to want to believe is to keep on counting down steps until you see no light. A lock on your head will always go away vut. Awhile later since where still on no topic of null we may. Just continue to keep on typing away to null even more, vur nel sel noling being. A key factor in nkthing, where nothing is nothing. To even get someone out of their mind is to breathe a little bit better. To write sololy a book while being in null is why I still write today. Bored without grandeur either way or less will never help you, just keep on trying.
The start of a depressing+ literature by o+++++

>Action parts I keep them shorter to make everything sound like it's happening fast.
Absolute patrician, fast is the way to go. Spend as much time as you want describing anything but action, and especially violence. Nothing turns me off quicker than overly complex descriptions of fights. The only time that can be appropriate is if you're writing from the perspective of a master combatant who's breaking down technique to the reader or a student, and even then its iffy.

>I think the most important thing is to establish a writing habit.
This so much. I've been forcing myself to write for one hour every night, and it's been doing wonders for me. Can't recommend self-bullying highly enough.

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Do you have any experience with music? I think those would make pretty cool songs if you compose something simple enough with a few 7th chords thrown in there