Quality /wg/ posters >Aristotle enjoyers >Passive Pullum appreciators >Theory and craft philosophers >Writing Feedback seekers (posting actual samples) >Selfless critiquers
Inferior /wg/ posters >Should I post.... >What would you guys think if I wrote... >How should I write this extremely detailed aspect of scene you've never seen??? >waaahhh I'm seeing things besides literary fiction! >Read this 10k sample I never edited of my fantasy erotica, if you criticize it I will never acknowledge your comment.
Know where you land, be the change you want to see.
Ian Peterson
I can't relate to either of these. Once again the path I walk is my own, but does it lead to obscurity or fame? Regardless, I was thinking back on the days of my childhood and how I used to write on pieces of A4 paper with a pen. I'd write about pirates and hawkmen and wizards and monsters and cowboys looking for gold and kids playing soccer all in the same story with no regard for how any of it fit together. I wish I still had those stories saved somewhere. I wish I could write with such reckless abandon again, with no regard for "world building". No consistency in the milieu, just dream logic, a child's logic, limited only by imagination, an imagination bred before the days of smartphones. Alas.
Quality /wg/ posters addendum >Brief writing blog Chads talking about their work and love for the craft >Marketing trve vnderstanders >Flash fiction gods
Inferior /wg/ posters addendum >People asking for permission/interest instead of just posting >Meerkaters >"No one writes"
Jace Mitchell
Which is a better platform for promoting my book: Gettr or Gab?
Jose Russell
What kind of audience do you want?
Elijah Sanchez
Gab
Lucas Bell
Conservatives.
Daniel Perry
>trying to work on my royal road project's lore >start finding my protagonists' ancestors so interesting that i just want to write about them instead AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Play the long game, start the story with the ancestors and move along the generations until you get to your final protagonist.
Aaron Powell
I'm afraid they aren't as Royal Road friendly as their descendants.
Jose Ortiz
>working on lore instead of writing the story ngmi
Jonathan Torres
I know, but while my story won't be lore nor exposition heavy, there's a lot of things in the background and related to the characters' backstories that would be weird to not have present from the beginning.
>Still 1k+ stronk words a day Whats the best way to portray a female character as particularly degenerate, so far i have; Lets her male pet dog lick her on the mouth. Wears short skirts. Too much perfume. Touches people on the arm when she talks to them.
Mason Bell
smokes cigarettes drunkard braying laughter multiple flings doesn't know how to cook
Hudson Gutierrez
eats food that's fallen on the ground scratches herself in public chews on fingernails flirts with every guy she meets snort-laughs
>Lets her male pet dog lick her on the mouth. That's incredibly normal and not even slightly degenerate.
Levi White
By "degenerate", do you mean promiscuity or /d/ kind of shit? Either way, it might be helpful to immerse yourself in female psychology. Look at things created by women, for women. Visit crystal cafe's /nsfw/ board (female Yea Forums; lurk, don't post, treat it like a nature reserve). Look up reader self-insert fanfiction on AO3.
Sebastian Adams
Uhm it’s called world building and it’s vitally important. Well known writers like Tolkien, Martin, and Paolini have done it. You might have heard of them and their works.
Hudson Mitchell
Can confirm. Pretty applicable, except the short laugh, i feel like an overly long laugh would be more narcissistic. >low quality bait i think you need to invest in some live worms fren. More like socially acceptable but morally reprehensible, like they refuse to use condoms but complain about having to have an abortion deal. I also checked out crystal cafe and i never thought /r9k/ could be topped but /feels/ beat it in the first few threads. Also too afraid to open their Yea Forums now, i thought i was mentally stronk.
Kayden Baker
Smokes pot Basic tattoos "I have more guy friends than girls"
Caleb Martinez
>"if you don't have niggers and child molesters in your book, you'll NEVER have realistic characters" Why are lit-tubers like this? I'm here and giving this a try because I want to get away from them.
Bentley Young
How bad of an idea would it be to fantasize about one if my characters while masturbating? I just think she's hot and cute.
Charles Barnes
The writing thread on /trash/ told me to just go ahead with it to get it out of my system, but they are /d/ expats.
Leo Carter
I had porn commissioned of a red headed tomboy I character I wrote in my first book series. Yes, I've beaten off to it several times.
Carson Bailey
Why is lit so horny today?
Robert Martinez
Redheaded tomboya have one function and one function only
Based >I'd write about pirates and hawkmen and wizards and monsters and cowboys looking for gold Most of my stories involve cowboys fighting pirates over gold in a post-apocalyptic waste. They'll never get published, likely aren't great, but I feel good writing them. Don't hold back my man. Write about both. Howard did it with Kull and Conan.
It seems like wattpad has no way for natural growth, every other writing websites has at least a latest posted page. Wattpad seems more gated and shit then other websites.
Noah Howard
What was the gap between Kull and Conan? Some hundreds of years?
Though, I guess I'm kind of scared of readers either overwhelmingly preferring one group over the other or having a split between people who like one and the other. No idea what that would do to a humble Royal Road hustler's story. I mean, the ancestors aren't like in the case of Kull and Conan the same but different but adventurers and soldiers. Only the MC and two of the other characters are any similar to them but the era kind of works against them.
Carter Miller
>Wattpad seems more gated and shit then other websites Wattpad is terrible and has absolutely awful discovery mechanics. Go to the site and try and look for a story. Click on fantasy. Okay now the little dropdown is hot or new. Oh, you can click on tags - except only like 10 of them you can't even manually write them and there is no list of tags you can reference. Wattpad is awful. For fantasy adventure RR is probably your best bet. Keep your wattpad up but no one will be able to find it. Seriously. Go use retard road's search function right now and then use Wattpad's. The difference is stark, Wattpad is basically unusable.
Colton Roberts
its probably on purpose. Why make it easy to look for novels when you can post a bunch of recs that people can pay for on the front page?
Ayden Miller
Any of you guys planning on writing anywhere besides in a book? Surely some of you intend to use royal road, substack, etc…
what's the difference between marketing trve vnderstandes and meerkaters? t. plan to shill my sad short stories anthology here one day speaks too loud casually talks about sex too much "overproduced" i.e. too much makeup, nail polish, etc. I plan to publish short non-fiction essays on Medium. I've read some articles about it and the "average" number of readers and profit is high enough.
Ethan Watson
It may actually be a couple thousand. For the stories, though, I say just write whichever is drawing you at the time and build out the world as you do it. If readers like your writing in one way they may like the other. If not, then I don't think it'll detract from their enjoyment having them both out there. Trying to get my stuff published in a sci-fi magazine but we'll see.
YAY!!!! my Paperback got accepted!!!! Now time to sell the book! What do you think of this plan?
>go to public library >request book purchase >claim it's a local author >public libraries love to support locals >they buy a book GET A SALE!
Nolan Cruz
>your plan Public libraries have no money; they aren't going to buy your book. But Amazon lets you order "author copies" at cost. Maybe order a bunch and donate them to local libraries.
>Public libraries have no money; they aren't going to buy your book. Darn it... And here I thought it was going to be fool proof. I wonder if my undergraduate college will buy one to help their alumni out?
Jordan Jackson
Doesn't hurt to try
Dylan Ross
Get a social media presence, shill your shitty book there. Join the right circles, advertise it through them.
Juan Harris
Hey, I have a question. Does this hammer home the hopelessness of the situation? >"You wanted a way to keep peace, didn't you? Protect our species from extinction." He said as he glared upwards with hate in his eyes, his torn arm oozing blood. "But no, you just added fuel to the flames, and now not just our species, but every living thing on the face of the planet will perish because you thought you could help." >Every word was like a barb, and both of them knew it. One out of hate, and the other out of guilt >"I never meant for any of this to happen, you know. But if it makes you feel any better, I understand what you mean. I know exactly what my ambitions unleashed, and now I must pay the price for it. Even if I can't stop it, I may try." >The man on the floor laughed weakly. "Go do that. See if you can stop something that the strongest armies couldn't so much as give pause to."
Jordan Hughes
Anyone have any good story ideas involving tarot cards? I'm thinking a serial killer who leaves behind tarot cards as clues to his next victim.
Doesn't have to be murder related, I just think tarot cards could be a cool concept.
Nathaniel Martinez
This is a sketch of a different one that was never completed. The one I mentioned was painted for me by a friend i.imgur.com/kgMUD1T.jpg
Alexander Flores
Is it wrong to conclude a rape scene by pointing out the woman orgasmed and since she enjoyed it, it wasn’t really rape?
Ian Wilson
Meerkaters believe scams will get their book to sell. They care only for profit and "making it big" and will write anything to get there. Marketing trve vnderstanders know that selling a book is more than Twitter scams and involves a more involved process of outreach and engagement with the public, but is ultimately up to word of mouth to sufficiently spread the story around.
Cameron Williams
Persona 4?
Aiden Peterson
>ultimately up to word of mouth to sufficiently spread the story around. I like this idea. Thanks user. I'll take it to heart and start upping my presence.
Aiden Carter
No, rather than saying. >Go do that. See if you can stop something that the strongest armies couldn't so much as give pause to. He should insult him. Doing it your way basically signals to the reader that the gambit is going to work. Say something like, >You can't stop it and you know it. You're a failure. A failure as a [whatever his job is] and a failure as a [whatever their relationship was]. I want you to know that. I want you to know nothing you do now matters at all. You've doomed us all.
John Sanchez
The proper way of doing that is to have the rapist laugh in her face and say he'll think about fucking her again because she obviously liked it so much.
