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Great, thanks. Approaching 40k works and making steady progress. First draft is awful but that's to be expected. I'll fix it once the major lifting is done, no problem. I love that part.
Thanks for asking. How's your book getting on, OP?

Just broke 30k words today, with a goal of around 100k words. I will be the greatest writer who ever lived.

Started writing last November for the first time since middleschool, mostly just sub-25k word smut & romance for the Kindle Store. I finished a 110k word Soft Sci-fi Wish Fulfillment Story that I'm pretty happy with and in the process of editing. I'm trying not to think about how it'll sell so I can't be disappointed.

On the final draft. Rewriting it from the ground up, to hone in on the details of the setting & characters. I used to think worldbuilding was a meme, but I've had a change of heart. It helps.

okay. almost 20k words but love everything so far.

its about 3 white trash people that rob a bank and kidnap a lifestyle coach

how did it go for the kindle stuff? i would have no problem writing junk for $$$

You can make legitimately good money if you're willing to churn out Twilight/Fifty Shades clones. Just be aware that you're writing for middle aged housewives, and write to them. I tried writing a male-POV romance and it sold pretty horribly. The ones written and marketed to women did much better.

If you want to try something shorter than romance, write a ~7k word smut short about a billionaire banging his secretary, make a cover with free stock art from pixabay, and throw it up on the kindle store under Erotica.

how about zombie junk. do people still read that? like if i was to churn out some 10k walking dead spinoff

It's like shitting concrete.

I don't know anything about reading habits/marketing outside of erotica/romance, and I've never seen zombie stuff in those.

Not sure whether I am losing passion for it or whether I am just too exhausted to enjoy the process. I am very eager to work on it every time I am not doing it but when it comes to actually doing it I zone the fuck out over the task at hand. Writing is piss easy, you got the rising word count and the story progresses, revisiting is the real challenge. Ah well, only 20 chapters/40k words to go.

I'll read that

I would read that*

Sorry I'm tired

thanks user. Hoping to get at least 60k words.

Gave up. Doing short stories now. It's going eh.

On 143k words, not much left now, should end up around 150k. I started this fucking thing in 2012 so to be so close to the end feels strange. But then it's not the end, is it, because I'm going to have to rewrite most of it

You're planning to publish it with such a huge word count?

Not at all at the moment. I've been wanting to write a novel, but my ideas tend to end up as short stories because they work better that way.

Dude

I expect it to be heavily reduced during edits.

(not him) I might just consider actually doing this shit. It's a decidedly easy genre to write, after all. Worth a shot or two.

how do any of you go about getting your works published?

what?

When I've finished my book, edited it, gotten feedback from my writer friends, and edited it some more, then I'll research agents who've taken on similar works to mine and submit to them.

would you say aside from writing and editing is having an agent publish your work some what easy to do?

Not great, OP.

I'm a newcomer into writing. I feel like most stuff I write is kind of good, but I might be getting too comforted just writing short stories; I have been thinking on writing a book, but that is probably too much for me. I should probably read a hell lot more books in order to feel prepared for something like that. How many books do you recommend me?

I mean, an average amount of books that I could
have read in order of potentially doing something something good enough.

>tfw you're a better artist than you are a writer and just spend your time doodling the characters instead of actually writing about them

I've been there.

then go with art man

how many words do you need ffs, I thought I was almost half-way done and realized it's only 20,000 words reeeeeee

how well does tastefully graphic gay erotica do?

Finished, now im just trying to get it published using Inkshares, fucking 750 preorders, got 1, and i suck at marketing. Not sure if im able to post the link here to share it around

There's too much dialogue, my book feels like a fucking screenplay and I have no idea why I thought a book about talk radio wasn't an awful idea. I feel like scraping it but I'm 83 college ruled notebook pages in so I figure i might as well finish. It's not very long anyway.

As long it's good dialogue, who cares? Was there a statistic that classics are 60% dialogue?

Get some jewtubers or bloggers to talk about it. Post the link ... it shouldn't count as spam since it was requested I would assume. Who is your target market either way?

Inkshare seems like a cute idea, just when it grows, it'll be pretty tricky for new authors to get attention unless I am getting something wrong.

Haven't been able to pick it up in months. At a certain point you have to do more editing than writing and it gets hairy. It starts becoming something other than your own flesh and blood extension, but instead this thing to worry about and criticize.

I felt that what I needed was more life experience and distance before I can put the finishing touches (and by finishing touches I mean like 20 thousand more words and a brutal slash and burn campaign on what's sitting on my hard drive).

I hope someday something will just click and I will rediscover what made me want to write in the first place.

New one is incoherent as fuck. I'm about 10k in, but I'm taking a turn and will likely delete or repurpose whatever was written up to now.

Apart from that, I'm revising one that still stands at around 210k but that I need to cut to 120k, and I've got another 120k one that I'm letting sit until then (got a bunch of others from before too, but there were more practice novels). Current ones are doing ok, pretty sure I'll be able to publish them, but I'm not writing in English, so there is less competition. I guess I'll see though, the first complete one should be sent to editors some time before Christmas.

I think it's that you gave away your story, and now the other user is too busy finishing it and sending it out before you to reply. Sorry. :(

Getting a large publisher to even read your novel is next to impossible. Publishers are less difficult but I'm still going to have to do the research on who to pitch to and craft and hone my pitch.

Protip: ideas are cheap as fuck. Everyone has ideas but it's the execution that matters.

What program should you use for a long ass novel?

If I could start again, I'd roll with One Note. You can basically create your own fucking wiki with it, and do the more basic stuff like actual notes and writing. Besides, it's available on most platforms, so you can write notes on your phone and get them on your laptop.

Of course there is more specialised stuff like Scrivener but personally I couldn't get into it and didn't want to bother with the learning curve.

In the end, any text editor will do, so it depends on your needs and workflow.

I use a text editor and sub folders for chapters, characters, etc.

I've tried Scrivener and similar systems but I feel like they're toys to play with. Other ppl think they're useful for complexities like keeping track of timelines with multiple characters

>It took me 5 months to finish a 32k~34k book under college pressure.
>After graduating, it has taken me 8 more months to edit it and adding more stuff up to 37k.
>People here spew short stories and novels like it's nothing.
>I rather play ps4 or download incest patreon games than continue on the next book.
Where do you guys find the drive to keep writing? Does your work includes writing? because even though i constantly think about my next short story and other ideas, I don't see myself spending free time on writing something out of self satisfaction knowing my writing is crap.

I'm at a point where I have to portray a romantic relationship, and it's setting off my "I wouldn't read this" alarm. I've never enjoyed reading romance. Even in Stoner, which I loved, and which kept it brief.

Yet it's unavoidable. The story demands it. And I've been stuck here for too long.

Why all the wordcount? Stop comparing penis sizes

>t. 2k words "novella"

>.txt size is expressed in bytes
>Haiku

Not selling as well as I would like, I suck at promotion.

Fine, thanks OP. Having some trouble writing the gay sex scene though.

>deciding it's going to be a book before finishing
Brainlets

Pencil and paper

I could never be an artist, I can only do things in my head but never really translate it to paper(which obviously isn't a problem with writing, although i'm still not a good, or a writer at all)

Whatever you can stand to look at/do for long periods of time. I personally like Q10 for drafting and pen & paper for writing, but I use Scrivener too because I don't want arthritis in the near future.

i cant complete it cuz i aint got no time,i gotta get mine,i keep my mind on my loot,i will shoot everytime

Well, here goes: inkshares.com/books/ravendale

Hopefully it doesn't get flagged as spam. Originally when I first started writing this I didn't have a target audience. One of my few talents in life is being a storyteller, and I just wanted to write something anyone could pick up and read. However if I HAD to pick a target audience, I guess the young adult to low 20 range? Not exactly too thrilled about my book being saddled in the same basket as so much garbage that's trying to be the next (insert popular book series here).

Feeling a bit good about myself about this. Wanted to know how others feel about it.

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I just today got word that my shitty self-published poetry book was accepted onto Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Check it out, lads

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Done. It is about seventy thousand words long. Are pieces of this size called novels or something else?

I'm not a Veeky Forums depressed cynic, but I think it is very good. As someone who's also dropped tabs, I can tell you that you have more perfectly captured the feelings and essence of a trip better than anyone else I have read.

I've been exactly in that place, with the tabs and drugs and that swirling self-criticism. I think what you wrote really helped me process my own experience.

FYI you're crazy for dropping with relative in physical proximity. I'm surprised you held it together so well.

Thank you for sharing.

>If Tony Stark and Mercy had a baby that's solving a sci-fi mystery.

>A city in the sky where everyone can fly, nobody knows why, because nobody cares. Except for one: The genius inventor with the patience of a goldfish, Summer Green, who’s so close to uncovering the city’s hidden secrets...
Cool little marquee, I'd read it if I wasn't broke as shit

Interesting

How much do you get on average for each of these short stories? Are you worried one day you might make it big and then your erotica might be discovered? What about other things? Could I make any money do you think writing short fantasy stories?

I've almost started thinking about writing it!

There are a ridiculous amount of exclamation marks in that excerpt you posted. I'm not a fan of the blurb at the beginning mentioning Tony Stark and Mercy either, it diminishes the integrity of your own idea.

Unfortunately the blurb was a required tagline to have and the amount of characters you're limited to is a difficult hurdle to get past. Funny that I never realized just how many exclamation points there were, thank you for pointing that out.

>eighteen composition pages
>drugs
>manipulation
>owls