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Anonymous09/29/25, 18:58No.96644454/wg/ - Writing General (and Storythread)
Writing General: 'library' edition
Welcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.
As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.
There's a discord for writers here
https://discord.gg/6AwKHGF
The previous thread can still be found in the archive here
>>96042773
And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)
https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Storythread
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Anon09/29/25, 19:05No.96644491
Perhaps the most fundamental pieces of writing advice is that if you want to write well, you have to read a lot. So with that in mind: what's on your bookshelf, anons?How many books do you have? Which one's your favourite? Do you even still buy physical books or have you switched to an e-reader? And do you borrow from public libraries at all?Personally - and I know I'm going to be called unoriginal - I think my favourite book is the copy of Lord of the Rings that I've had since I was a kid. And I'm a committed Luddite in that I still prefer physical paper over e-readers; I also borrow from public libraries fairly regularly.
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Anon09/30/25, 11:48No.96649156
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Anon09/30/25, 17:53No.96651226
It's more important to write every day than to write well.Just write every day, write often. At the end of the year, you'll have more than 300 pieces of writing that you can polish and develop.Just keep practicing. It's simple.
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Anon10/01/25, 11:25No.96655740
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Anon10/01/25, 17:04No.96657375
Happy Birthday to 4chan. How many years in the clinker?
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Anon10/01/25, 20:08No.96658698
I have this cyberpunk story I'm working on, and in it I want to have the characters slowly uncover and (try to) fight some big conspiracy going on behind the curtain. My problem is I can't really think of anything really shocking.
My current idea is that the ultra-wealthy are building generation ships at the edge of the solar system and when they're done they're going to leave Earth to complete collapse. And while I like it the more and more I think about it the less shocking and horrifying it seems.
Any advice, ideas, or things to get inspired by?
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Anon10/02/25, 09:09No.96662101
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Anon10/02/25, 19:39No.96665231
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Anon10/03/25, 22:43No.96674886
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Anon10/03/25, 22:58No.96674989
How do you lads find the inspiration for your characters and settings? My mind is turning up blank.
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Anon10/03/25, 23:06No.96675046
I'm getting better, according to my well-read friend. Writing stuff just takes practice.
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Anon10/04/25, 00:03No.96675401
Any good recomendations for Books and stuff with Magitech based settings? I'm trying to write a basic bitch tiny first timer D&D campaign and I want some ideas
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Anon10/04/25, 06:15No.96676673
Newfag DM here. Trying to do a VTM game set in 1980s miami during the drug war.
Players are going to be working loosely with the Sabbat or independent factions, but will have the option to choose a bunch of different groups to support.
Basically, here's my idea for the campaign
>Players are working with Sabbat, just arrived, or just independent in 1984 miami
>Sabbat like Miami because they can use the drug cartels to bring in bodies, guns, cars, whatever they need; this is boosted due to how close Cuba is
>Camarilla wants to get rid of the Sabbat and keep Miami for themselves; The Prince (toreador) sees the Sabbat as a plague and Miami as a bastion of different passions.
>Anarchs exist in Miami, wanting to kick out the Sabbat too to keep Miami independent, but lack leadership (more on that later)
>Camarilla moves in and establishes "Rule" which no one really acknowledges. This angers the Prince which leads to him later on contacting the coterie
>Sabbat don't own the coterie, but they can choose to work closer with them to kick out the Cammies/Anarchs
>During a mission, the coterie will be abducted/kidnapped/staked to meet a new independent leader; "The General" (WIP). His story is he's an ex Revolutionary War general for the British. My shtick with this character is he saw how fiercely the Americans fought to be free from rule, where he has second thoughts about fighting for a monarchy that is oppressing people. After he was embraced and woke up in this new world, he sees the Anarch movement as the same idea; he then decides to assist the Anarchs. My idea for his sort of character is a sort of Count Dooku "dangerous gentleman" type
>Other independent groups include a bunch of Nightclubs, one is exclusively blood brothers, one is ventrue trying to profit as much as possible from the greater Miami, one is the Tremere trying to make sure their chantry won't be harmed during the incoming conflict.
>Smaller groups (which players can assist or wipe out) will include
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Anon10/04/25, 22:15No.96680787
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Anon10/06/25, 01:10No.96688538
What happened to the blue girl?
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Anon10/07/25, 00:11No.96695886
Posting a small excerpt from a /tg/ novel I'm writing, looking for general feedback. I posted it to /lit/ a while back, but it might be nice to hear a fa/tg/uy's opinion.
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Anon10/09/25, 08:44No.96713543
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Anon10/10/25, 12:33No.96722127
I dunno, ask >>>/lit/ [//boards.4chan.org/lit/]
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Anon10/11/25, 22:32No.96733876
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Anon10/12/25, 00:00No.96734308
finished a WIP I had laying about cause people tell me I don't finish my stories
https://voca.ro/1o2Mn6knEEjN
"A Kobold"
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Anon10/12/25, 10:55No.96736502
I need your wisdom for the direction of my story. The medium is a crpg so I am not entirely sure I am in the right place, but I am at least in a place I respect.>main character wakes up surrounded by arcane sigils in an empty room
>talked to by a disembodied voice, telling them that his presence have freed them
>that is because the body crash-landed into the place where the spirit was bound, but that is not up to reveal yet
>the sprit tells the character that they will stay in their body and keep their blood pumping (something the body cannot do on its own apparently) if he keeps walking and gets them out of here
>Facility is a little high-tech, and very destitute. There are decaying security drowns walking about, and being hostile. (Human-shaped drones for rule of cool)
>Eventually cornered as the facility gets to full alarm and the remaining drones are closing in, but then is rescued by a some other characters
>The take him home into an 80s punk-style city, and have a doctor check up on him
>Doctor tells him that his body is breaking down, and needs an expensive enzyme to stop itSo the thing is that in a book, or a movie, this would be two nice thick plotlines to follow. Maybe even discovering the feelings and thoughts of the main character about their predicament. In a crpg though, it might be just dividing the attention, as people get interested in one, but not the other. Especially since players go around and discover what makes them curious. Instead of having the follow the motivations of a character.So I figured one has to go, but I am not sure which one.
Getting rid of the voice would mean I don't have to write an inner voice that comments on everything for the story, and getting rid of the "you're falling apart" plot, means I don't need to worry about some timer or anything, or the lack of it as a dissonance.What you guys think? Any advice would be appreciated.
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Anon10/13/25, 21:44No.96747130
Damn, once I was able to start writing around 20:00, enough time to finish a session, then watch, play something, read a book and go to bed.
This rhythm is broken, it takes me way longer to start writing, and only stopping once it's almost time for bed. Shits fucked.
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Anon10/16/25, 19:43No.96768570
It's been a while since I've written anything so I thought I'd have a go at something quick.A thousand thousand halls and all in silence. All filled with books, wall to wall, floor to ceiling. In places even that vast space hadn't been enough to contain them, and they had overflowed; there were tunnels like mine-workings where - seeing that there was plenty of unused area above head height - extra shelves had been added spanning the gap, creating a new ceiling which groaned under the weight of paper so that props had to be wedged under them to stop it all collapsing. In the depths of the stacks there were even passages where - with the overspan unable to bear more weight - new bookcases had been lain flat, and gantries strung over them, so that prospective borrowers had to walk over them or even crawl, where the ceiling had got low enough.The library of the Damascene. In some parts of the world he was called a buddha (not *the* buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, but a walker on the same path), for he had been enlightened, although sources differed on whether by meditation or divine revelation. Further east still, he was referred to as a sage, although only by a tiny sect consisting of less than a hundred people whose ancestors had, at one time, been Manichaeans. How he became part of the Manichaean corpus was unknown even to him, although given that they managed to integrate Jesus Christ into Zoroastrianism and Chinese folk religion, it should hardly have been a surprise.The Damascene may or may not have been spiritually enlightened, but there was one thing he was lacking, and that was knowledge. He just couldn't hold onto it. Maybe it was *because* he was so in touch with the spiritual realm, but every fact he learned about anything relating to... well, reality, which is to say everything to do with anything we would recognise, flowed straight out of him.
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Anon10/19/25, 01:03No.96785479
I keep reading lorebooks for games I will never play just so scenarios I set in my head are lore friendly
What stage of autism is this?