/wg/ - Writing General

Just finished the new section.
Still enjoying the madness!

Why aren't these guys on the pastebin?

has anyone actually read any of these shitty books?

>Any fight scene that isn't totally grounded is anime.

litter.catbox.moe/k2vipl.pdf

I dunno...I can't answer for the authors.
I've read both. I liked both.

Ugh. Porno meets Dr. Seuss.

Dunno if it's anime but it somehow manages to jam past, present, and future tense together.

Just a question.

Is this too much dialogue all at once? Should I break down the longer paragraphs and put in more exposition?

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That’s the point. The guy he’s fighting experiences time from a nonlinear POV.
And yes, our main character is not a pushover. He’s actually among the top tier characters here

>drunk neet
>just wrote 1000 words over the course of about two hours off the top of my head about random shit I'm thinking about

It probably just sounds stupid or naive to any of you who I assume have your shit together and are in college pursuing some kind of literary/academic careers but should I keep this up? I'd like to say I'm fairly well read but have no aspirations to write because I'm fairly sure I broke my brain from sustained neetdom and alcohol abuse. Maybe it could be worthwhile. I'm not even sure what the purpose of this post here, I think I'm just hoping someone in a similar situation sees it.

What is your experience with the American southeast? As a South Carolinian from a dirt poor dogshit town, I’m not buying the accent

Lived there for a good 3 years. So not so much. I'm also trying to emulate Mark Twain --- I have a copy of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer next to me, as well as an archive of speeches and newspaper clippings from the 1800's, but of course, without actually living there and experiencing it first hand 24/7, it's going to sound like a hollywood rip off. Any slang I should be aware of?

A pressure pushed his heart back. It constricted it in the sudden heat and pain that this sort of sudden shock causes. A reverberating electric wave through muscles and veins causing the body to quake in an acerbic burn. His mind lost its bearings slightly and gradually, becoming dizzier, and he felt, through his back and his chest and his stomach that rush of horror, which wouldn't subside, wouldn't be quenched all at once in a delightful relief once he looked twice, checked and realized that it was all just a mistake. It was a crushing wave of horror, the kind that spreads physical aches through your bloodstream and is paralyzing, the kind of moment where your hazed mind is so overflown with adrenaline that you would never be capable to properly recall it should you search your memory for it. His temples pulsated, his heart beat so hard and so fast he could feel the beat in his head. His breathing had become shaky automatically and the world felt flimsy, like walking on water, distancing itself from his senses in a slow slide. This was AIDS and cancer laced into a worse package. This was a life sentence for agony ever-lasting. This was more than just suffering and just death, but the destruction of one's own self into something else, something mangled, dingy and warped. That deep sorrow came in slowly, but arrived to stay. Burrowing itself somewhere in his heart, infecting his body with a grieving aspect of affliction, his mind with a mist of confusion and overlapping thoughts, negative mantras and labyrinths of the same conclusions. His life had been completely restructured. Such is the idea of life destruction, a reconstruction of life into something worse, something pathetic, downtrodden and inescapable. A tainted mark that will always be over your face, as if even in the most comfortable and happy moments, that may hide away beyond the fogs of the immediate future, where comfort may someday reappear, even then, all these moments must be observed through blurred, almost blinded eyes, those fields walked by twisted, crippled legs, and these flavors appreciated by a tongue covered in scars of mutilation. Despite in a literal sense still being in one piece, this is how he felt. As if he had lost a limb or suffered disfigurement. All that has been lost can never be restored, your world and your life are a different experience now, forever.

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If you enjoy it, it's constructive, and you have nothing better to do then you should keep doing it. This applies regardless of what "it" is. 1000 pages a day means you'll have a novel in six months if you keep it up.

Don't post your work here until you've got a solid base of discipline and inertia to keep you going. You'll get demotivated by the typically brutal /wg/ critique and stop.

Not him either, but I only sold four, and I don't think any were from here.

All circumstantial honesty. Just depends on what you’re writing. Id just be wary of idioms or figures of speech. One I always liked, though, I’d the phrase “the devil is beating his wife,” which means that it’s sunny and raining

Op didn’t even bother with a link to the previous thread you’re one brain dead retarded fucking faggot and I hope this thread fails as much as you have in life you’re a disappointment to both your parents they’ll probably KYS

I'll use it somewhere. Probably when Hutch goes to Chinatown to sell chickens in the best Chinese he can muster.

I don't see any of my books on there.

if you're not on the pastebin with an amazon link, you got left out.

I'm on there and I dont' know if I regret it yet.

>Seeds of Doubt
>24 pages for $8
What the fuck man.

I read Call of the Crocodile.
I did not care for it.

I 100% already regret it.

Hey fun fact, Google gets you nothing searching for "The Emily Project. I had to directly search on Amazon before I got any hits.

Anyway, I got your book. It better live up to the hype, because if it doesn't I'm going to bitch and moan impotently for a period of up to two weeks.

But if it's bad I'll feel better about my own inane scribblings, so I guess I can't lose.

>fun fact, Google gets you nothing searching for "The Emily Project.
I wouldn't worry about that honestly. The other things that come up are very low priority in the search engine results. It should start showing up soon as it gets more and more hits on Amazon.
It's not like a "Son of the Sun book" search where you are fighting against 38 different books.

If I do a whole novel from one person’s perspective in first person, will it jive well to write the epilogue from another person’s point of view in first person? Or will it be too jarring?
I think it’s a neat idea but I don’t know if it’s a bad idea or not

It's jarring if you write it jarring

Plz no bully

Ngl the book sounds like plastic love anime

Where are they? I want to get their permission before adding them to the pastebin.

those covers are a certified bruh moment fr

I always liked Gardner’s covers. The chalkboard aesthetic is unique and eye catching.

It is creative and unique, I'll give you that

>the hat I bought to look more like Joyce doesn't fit my head
How can I even write in this state? Who should I try to ape next? Hemingway? Jack London?

The DFW headband is a pretty easy prop. I use it to cover up my balding.

scribd.com/document/551280851/Unfiltered

What do you not like about this? Any jokes that don't work or scenes that don't make sense?

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It is plastic love anime

>Do this
>Get this
>Severely disappointed emilyanon book isn't about iCBMs or the cold war.
>Robot isn't even a secret military weapon

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I want to write a progression fantasy. How do I avoid going too hard too fast?

Don't over-focus on progression. The best progression fantasies are the ones that use it as a framework for a story, and focus on the story and characters, using progression to push them forward.

I read Eggplant and Call of the Crocodile, ama

>go for a long walk
>spend the entire time imagining getting interviewed about my decades-spanning literary career
Hahaha.

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Oh, I know that. I was debating the merits of two approaches:
>The MC gets tossed into a hard difficulty zone and powerlevels by the skin of his teeth
This would have a more seesawy progression where the MC would end up overpowered against initial threats post-beginning and I could focus on worldbuilding and relationships before ramping it back up.
>The MC gradually builds up his strength from easy to hard zones
This has a more consistent progression, but it might feel like the MC never catches a break since everyone is always stronger.

I admit I'm more partial to the first as an intro but I'm worried about how well I can handle it post-intro.

Dreams are just goals that haven't been given a deadline. Get out there and make it

Thank you very much.

How cringe was it?

The first one is one used by a few notable ones from webnovels (Defiance of the Fall, Randidly Ghosthound, etc), whereas I rarely see much of the latter, it's usually swingier. And, yeah, you're right, the first one has problems in that it's a pretty good start, but where the story goes after that can leave the beginning feeling like the only good part. You should probably also work on how you're doing progression. Progression can be as gamified as LitRPG stuff, or as mundane as "just getting better at fighting". A decent thing to do is mash those two approaches together. Have the apparently easy early thing suddenly dip into something absurd that they barely scrape through, but they push their way up to that absurdity through a more focused push on going higher.

Ive only read call of the crocodile on that list. I might look into getting the emily project if its interesting

No, just look at all the 1-star reviews of Call of the Crocodile

Eggplant was actually pretty solid. It was a little rough at times and probably could’ve done with some more editing, but the story was actually very enjoyable and original and the project was clearly something very ambitious the author put a lot of thought into. I don’t think the topic of art critics and the generally emotionality of it would interest anons here, but ironically I could see it having real normie appeal, for what it’s worth

When I got to page 2 of Call of the Crocodile, my thoughts were that I’d been tricked into buying some prank meme bullshit. Avoid like the plague.