wg writing general

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Anon07/27/26, 05:10No.25425951

Stop putting that other link under the "advanced guide" section; it ruins it

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Anon07/27/26, 05:55No.25425994

I bet both of you use your pathetic sales numbers as credentials to stand above all the 0 copies moved books, then will incongruously seethe at all of the actually popular books selling 10000x more Which is it? Do sales and the reviews of cattle matter, or not?

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Anon07/27/26, 06:17No.25426025

>Accidentally invented a new character mid story who doesn't fit in at all and would only be accommodated into the story with detours You have no fucking idea how often I fall for this shit.

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Anon07/27/26, 06:46No.25426058

if we're talking amazon reviews, thanks to everyone (including /lit/) whose input contributed to the second edition of The Chemical Divorce. Bob was absolutely right that the initial version was too confusing for general audiences. hopefully people dig 2e even more

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Anon07/27/26, 06:52No.25426065

so wg has become a self promotion general?

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Anon07/27/26, 07:05No.25426092

Yikes. You paid jeets for reviews?

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Anon07/27/26, 09:11No.25426255

I don’t have an ending for this one yet, but it’s been on my mind a lot and I figured I’d post a brief outline. Help and feedback would be appreciated:So there's this guy who sees himself in everything. He read somewhere once that all conscious beings are just sensory appendages of the divine and it stuck with him, so when he goes out in his yard on a beautiful summer day and looks up at the sky, seeing himself in the clouds, he isn't surprised, and thinks it kind of rules. "There's me," he thinks, "we're the best. We're all there is, baby." He waves to it, thinking happy thoughts as it passes over him.He walks out onto his freshly-cut lawn enjoying the day, and spots this weird grey thing poking out of the grass. He goes over and gets on his hands and knees to inspect it, finding it to be a crusty, oddly shaped rock buried in the dirt, seemingly the tip of a large underground boulder. After a few seconds he realizes with great amusement that the rock looks exactly like him. The grass has grown around it in such a way that he sees it as spot-on just like his own long, unkempt head of hair, complete with beard. There's even a grass mustache draped over the deep stone crevice of its mouth. Delighted, he fashions it a little twig pipe, lights his own up, and they hang out smoking weed together and having a great time.Over the summer he and his rock become good friends. He feels a great sense of comradery with himself. No one understands you better than you do. He brings himself little offerings of beer and food, and tells himself all his problems. He listens dutifully. It's all going very smoothly until, like with all deepening relationships, the concern starts. He begins to worry about himself out there, buried in the lawn. Clearly someone put me there, and I want to get out. No one in their right mind would want to stay in the same place forever.The anxiety deepens as I begin having recurring nightmares of an endless summer sky. Trees. Clouds. Blue. The dreams last for what feels like years, completely unchanging until the alarm on his phone wakes me up.Anyway, that's all I have so far. I don't really know where it's going. I bought a shovel today though. At first I was worried that I could be wrong, but ultimately I know what I want, and that's to not be stuck in the fucking ground.

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Anon07/27/26, 12:03No.25426442

I disagree superman. I have done a lot of hard things in my life. Getting good at writing is pretty high up on the list of difficult, at least for me. If I had a lick of sense I would focus on a different hobby and stop this mental self harm.

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Anon07/27/26, 12:18No.25426461

>tfw write an anti-white novel >I also write anti-black, anti-Indian and anti-Jew in the same novel

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Anon07/27/26, 13:30No.25426552

Should I write my fetish in my novel?

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Anon07/27/26, 14:01No.25426603

Conspicuous Cunt faggot is back talking shit lmao you can lie and try to review bomb Dark Triad all you want, nobody wants to read your reddit slop garbage opinions or your cucked story about le heckin cute e-girl. just kys already.

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Anon07/27/26, 15:30No.25426794

Is it okay to have nothing-really-happens chapters? I'm trying to write a sci-fi epic, but I'm so plot-obsessed that I don't really feel like my characters are coming through. I know in an ideal world I ought to combine the character stuff into the plot scenes, but are there scenes in books where no plot really happens at all? It seems counterintuitive to do so.

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Anon07/27/26, 15:37No.25426802

>11 reviews 4.6/5 The foids haven't found it yet.

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Anon07/27/26, 17:00No.25426943

Why do I feel despair when I write? How do I ignore the voice that goes "your writing's shit" over and over again?

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Anon07/27/26, 17:03No.25426952

what kind of male slice-of-life novel do you think would sell nowadays? if only on a small scale?

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Anon07/27/26, 18:01No.25427058

I've had the itch recently to get back into writing stories, I always enjoyed it as a kid at school, but never kept up the habit, and went down the music route.Lately though, I've been toying around with a novel or short story concept based on those old Army Men toys/games. At its current stage it'll be a very black comedy, the bleakness and horrors of war meshes really to me when you contrast it with garden warfare and toys. I thought "Model Soldiers" would be a fitting name for it, quite romantic/heroic, and has a fun double meaning. At the moment I've only got a bit of a character sheet, and a couple of scene/plot ideas. It'll follow a single squad for most of it with a noob called Rook as the protag, but I'd like various chapters dedicated to different branches doing operations, on land, sea, or air. I guess slightly Band of Brothers inspired, with the focus shifting on various characters and their stories. I still need to figure out the main story beats, mostly a good premise to kick everything off, and hopefully it should come together *somewhat* easily once I have the time to work on it proper.

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Anon07/27/26, 18:09No.25427066

Finished my first manuscript, threw it into an epub, and sent it to a friend while I was still riding the high. Now I'm off the high and fucking panicking like I knew I would. Why does the thought of anyone ever reading my shit give me a heart attack? I do actually want to share it but the moment I do I get all in my head about it. Is something wrong with me?

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Anon07/27/26, 21:11No.25427452

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Anon07/27/26, 21:22No.25427475

I DON'T USE FADEIN I DON'T USE FINAL DRAFT I SET THE FORMAT OF MY SCRIPT WITH LIBRE OFFICE AND IF EVEN A SINGLE DETAIL IS WRONG I HAVE A MENTAL BREAKDOWN

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Anon07/27/26, 21:40No.25427518

An excerpt of the novella I spoke of in the previous thread.Any general thoughts on style, vividness, etc. are welcome. Some of this is first- and second-draft material, but for the sake of fairness, pretend it's never getting rewritten.

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Anon07/27/26, 21:44No.25427524

I feel so tired after writing 10 pages of my first book so far. It took like 5 hours to crank them out. Wtf.

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Anon07/27/26, 22:42No.25427625

74,000 words. Aiming for like 300,000 - 400,000 words. Oh my god, it's so much text!

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Anon07/28/26, 02:23No.25428067

[/lit/thread/25416717#p25423997] I also got brain fog after contracting COVID. (I never got the vaccine.) The brain fog could be inflammation. I cured it with glutathione. You can buy it on Amazon. By the end of the bottle (about 2 months), my brain fog was gone.

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Anon07/28/26, 02:31No.25428086

[/lit/thread/25416717#p25424059] Reading non-fiction is otherwise known as "research" and yes, it's vital. [/lit/thread/25416717#p25424067] No, AI doesn't democratize intelligence. It doesn't even make it more egalitarian. You still have to have intelligence to wield AI, otherwise it's just another voice ordering you around. [/lit/thread/25416717#p25424266] t. unemployed

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Anon07/28/26, 05:28No.25428369

>first person >Present tense >First paragraph is about crying/whining >Random curse words to be "expressive" >Long ass description of a setting, flashback, or a dream Holy fuck why is this style so popular?

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Anon07/28/26, 10:59No.25428698

What is the best font for writing and why is it Times New Roman?

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Anon07/28/26, 11:03No.25428706

How am I going to write a fictional American town or city like Springfield on The Simpsons? I am South East Asian and my knowledge about America is limited.

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Anon07/28/26, 12:28No.25428823

>tfw 4900+ words and counting

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Anon07/28/26, 12:32No.25428830

Spend the day world building and updating my lore sheet instead of writing again.Normally I keep most worldbuilding stuff in my head but had to finally stop putting off setting solid rules and write them down to keep them straight for how certain stuff worked otherwise I would have left way more work for myself in revisions to keep everything coherent.To use a film making example Good pre-production leads to less work during post-production.Will take a break to refresh my brain then get back to proper writing though. The drafting must go on!

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Anon07/28/26, 14:55No.25429079

>indie author posts a pic of his book to celebrate its success >no links, no begging to buy, nothing that violates rules >jannies delete it anyway perhaps they just need a good raping to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain?"

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Anon07/28/26, 15:51No.25429187

>Want to write an intelligent villain >I myself am not intelligent How obvious is it if I just make everyone around him retarded?

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Anon07/28/26, 16:18No.25429232

Occasionally I'll hear a song that suits one of my characters well and I'll imagine that song playing during the credits of the movie version of my story. Anyone else do this?

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Anon07/28/26, 17:12No.25429356

I'm writing a sci-fi epic, and the temptation is in me every so often just to add more perspectives and characters and glut the corners with lore and side-quests and so on, so I keep having to pause and remind myself that I'm not writing Game of Thrones in space.

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Anon07/28/26, 19:58No.25429842

Here are some 4 pages I have recently written translated into english. Before this excerpt the main character has returned to her childhood tribe with remnants of her new family to get wife for her son. She has been kidnapped from the tribe by her husband long ago. In her absence her father (Negu) has died, her childhood friends have grown up. As they are leaving with the bride old and sickly shaman of the tribe (who has been with the tribe long before she was born, who was something akin to teacher to her and who is her uncle) collapses during coughing fit and they do not leave. This excerpt begins after that. In it the main female character has discussion with the shaman who awakes. This excerpt happens right before the final act of the novel, after it comes seeming catastrophe and then catharsis. The novel is family drama taking place on medieval steppe (century or such before genghis khan).

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Anon07/28/26, 20:03No.25429855

is anyone here working on an 'internet' book?

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Anon07/28/26, 20:55No.25429991

Can AI find stories I wrote in the past? Should I delete all smut stories?

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Anon07/29/26, 01:16No.25430681

Anons, if I finish my book, what should I do? I was thinking of sending it to an agent or going to Amazon instead, but I don't know. I want to share it here afterwards, but I don't know if that'll mess up any contract I'll have or not.

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Anon07/29/26, 02:19No.25430841

i think the /wg/ might be one of the worst threads to actually post your writing in. because most the board know it’s boring and the people who actually frequent here are into fantasy and stuff. if you write literary fiction you honestly might get more out posting an excerpt in the /wyt/

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Anon07/29/26, 02:46No.25430905

I accept your concession.

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Anon07/29/26, 03:25No.25430994

Hey, I have a fun game—let's celebrate the patterns of cretinous behavior we see in this thread! I'll start. Don't you love it when someone posts their writing, someone replies with "it needs work", and the writer explodes with fury: "Nooooo! My writing is the crown of creation! How dare UUUU!!!1!"

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Anon07/29/26, 04:14No.25431088

tres días

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Anon07/29/26, 04:42No.25431117

Once upon a guy there was a cool motorcycle guy with a leather jacket and a helmet that you could not see inside.He was really cool and he had a leather jacket.He rode off on his motorcycle that was going like VRRMVRRMVRRRMMMMM off into the sunset and did a wheelie.

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Anon07/29/26, 04:45No.25431120

I don't give a shit about who the fuck anon against literally nobody motorcycle guy! Make TB and Boor fight again!

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Anon07/29/26, 04:56No.25431137

Do Consumptive Cur and Dark Triad have similar themes?

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Anon07/29/26, 05:07No.25431148

How do I stop myself from giving my characters overly complicated backstories? I feel I could write a whole short novel with a backstory alone.

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Anon07/29/26, 07:25No.25431306

What's the difference between writer and author?

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Anon07/29/26, 12:54No.25431587

Which lot will best help,me right my story I no idea what go on

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Anon07/29/26, 15:07No.25431786

I think I'm nearly finished with my first draft. What a strange feeling it is. I'm on 80k words, but I seem to fill my work out after the fact, so I'm expecting about 160,000 when it's finished. In my first draft, I tend to treat plot points as bullet points, so it ends up very emaciated. I just need to get these last little bits completed, and I'll be ready to begin with fresh eyes. Any tips for draft 2?

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Anon07/29/26, 16:12No.25431865

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/176028/the-chemical-divorce/chapter/3742221/cosmic-calamityNew section of my story is up on Royal Road. I like this speech, but I think the coolest sequence is the near-death experience after the impact. If anyone enjoyed Encounter at Farpoint, it's pretty much that, only historical instead of sci-fi.

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Anon07/29/26, 16:39No.25431900

How can I force myself to finish Proust?

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Anon07/29/26, 16:44No.25431913

I'm making a lot of progress with my story, my inner voice is constantly telling me it's shit and I'll never finish it. Can I get a little boost?

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Anon07/29/26, 19:44No.25432274

Today's short story (picrel). I have been at least starting one every day, but the last two started ballooning and are in a very rough draft form. One is approaching novellete territory, so I'll finish them later.What can I improve on? Other than finding something to write about besides autistic men lol.

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Anon07/29/26, 21:24No.25432519

>Writing space opera about a future human empire which has gradually seen a cultural divide between Christians and Pagans who have a tenuous mutual tolerance >Central theme is Protagonist is a spiritual pagan aristocrat whose spouse was murdered and has now devoted entire life to pursuit of planetary-scale revenge out of a sense of piety to the gods >Christian love interest attempts to help move beyond atatvistic need to justify continued life by heaping more corpses upon the altar of the dead >Friends somehow read this and conclude the work is Anti-ChristianThe Median Reader is NOT HUMAN. I'm sick of this shit

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Anon07/30/26, 01:19No.25432959

>gemstones as eyes holy shit this is the most overused metaphor ever, but how else can someone describe eye color without resorting to gemstones?

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Anon07/30/26, 03:56No.25433130

I can't write better than AI

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Anon07/30/26, 10:17No.25433588

I hate writing movie scripts so much, but it's the only thing I can do. If my script ever gets approved I would have to Alan Smithee it because my family would disown and kick me out of the house if they find out I wrote a movie.

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Anon07/30/26, 12:11No.25433703

>What if a writer is trying to create something that's never been done before? In which characters don't change, and there are no epiphanies, and there isn't even movement from scene to scene. There's emotion and meaning implied through something absolutely abstract. What then?

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Anon07/30/26, 14:33No.25433859

I can only write white male on female furry porn. Is that good enough?

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Anon07/30/26, 16:27No.25434043

I like reading non-fiction books which are clear and unambiguous, not flowery, not too unnecessarily technical, etc. Are there any books which help with developing such a style? What authors should one imitate? I like Aristotle and Caesar for this, for example.

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Anon07/30/26, 17:12No.25434101

Can someone be evil for a reason other than the color of their skin?

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Anon07/30/26, 18:58No.25434310

Small short story I wrote today.

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Anon07/30/26, 19:39No.25434397

Langostar had branded himself a god, because he deemed himself invincible. He thought he was the one who held dominion over the waters, when he was mearly another small tick of Chronos' clock. He bareth his fangs towards Death. Its scythe, beneath his chin at ready to reap another foolhardy soul who disdains humility. Avert thee eyes from such a ghastly sight, for ye gaze upon the doom of three -- the ego, the flesh, and the life of what could've been had ambition been smothered.Should I use more french words to appeal to the intelligentsia

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Anon07/30/26, 20:53No.25434572

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