How's your novel coming along Veeky Forums??

So fucking true. You deserve an award user.

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Top civilized rationalized deputized KEK.

I'm some 3k words in of pure novel material, without counting the skeleton, drafts, excerpts, ideas written down. It was harder to write the skeleton, now just filling it once I have the basic draft is quite easy. Even as lazy as I am, I can easily do 3-5k words a week which isn't much, but it's quite enough.
All in all I'm happy with what I've achieved so far.

Still trying to get the story going.
It will be just a short story.

it's better to start with short stories

What kind of story are you currently writing? If it's science fiction you'll need to do at least 2-3 years of research.

After years of hard work I have finally completed the sixth and final installment of my debut memoir. There is still some editing to do on the final three installments though the first three are ready for publication. As my attempts to publish it via conventional means have resulted in rejection and misunderstanding thus far I have decided instead to post my work on this board in the hope that its users will be capable of appreciating its genius.

>my debut memoir

Dude you're fucking 19, you need to get some life experiences first before you write a memoir. If want it to be interesting wait another 40 years before you start writing anything about yourself.

I am, twenty-four years of age. Life experience cannot be measured by a quantity of novel external experiences. Already in my twenty-four years I have experienced a wider range of emotions and a more intense interior life than many if not most individuals currently alive, my heightened intellect and profound analysis of the world in which I have been forced to exist having allowed me to articulate the underlying truths of our shared experience in a way that is entertaining and enlightening in equal measure.

It's going fine Mom.
I swear to God I'm not a failure.

I know, I know son. Now go back to your writing cage!!!

Is your skeleton spooky?

>tfw no writing cage

My parents suck. It's like they don't know that establishing discipline in a child is the path to true freedom.

>tfw not Asian
Damn you Mom and Dad. The SAT/writing/MCAT/study dungeon isn't just a meme!

Finished a 80k novel last year and sent it to a contest in my country (I'll probably lose but at least I'll have tried)

Writing the second one now. 30k already.

Just sit down and write, anons. You have no idea how much you'll improve if you focus in your work and write on a daily basis.

It's getting published soon

>tfw academic parents
>tfw they always encouraged me to articulate myself as best as I could
>tfw mastered grammar by the age of eight
>tfw was read to every night until the age of five
>tfw father always gave me interesting novellas to read to get started
>tfw both parents encouraged me to take extensive notes on the books I made
>tfw amazing memory as a result
>tfw now 21 years old and waiting for my agent to find a publisher for my first novel
>tfw short stories already published in several well-respected magazines

It's so awesome to have parents that care so much about you.

bump

>tfw it was all a dream

>tfw crank out short stories like southerners crank out incest babies
>tfw only 200 words into one novel
>tfw only 400 words into another novel

Who's your agent kid?

Bill Clegg

Not quite haha

Oh, you're American. Unlucky.

Best of luck though, hope it finds a publisher.

Oh it will haha

I dunno buddy, would reserve the confidence for the moment. I know plenty of authors signed by agents who are unable to place their book. It happens.

You'll notice agents typically only list authors publicly once they've secured a publisher. Lots stuck in limbo.

Dude I'm 21 and well on my way to literary success. Bill's one of the best agents in the country and his book just won a major award. I get that you're jealous or angry or something but trust me man I'm gonna make it. K? K/

Is this trolling? It feels like trolling.

Memetown kek.

Nope. I'll post my book here when it comes out I guess. I met Garth Risk Hallberg recently at an event-type thing at my college and he knows about Veeky Forums after he googled his book and found a link to one of the threads here. I've only been here a few months after a friend told me about you guys making Tao Lin famous sort of hoping the same thing will happen to me haha

>mastered grammar by the age of eight
>was read to every night until the age of five
Um that's pretty unexceptional m8 everyone understands and masters grammar before that age, and if you're a native english speaker you have almost no moods, very few tenses, no declensions, and a very straightforward syntax, so no biggie here. And every decent parent reads stories to their children. I started reading properly when I was four and a half and I don't feel speshul about it.

You're trolling.

But if not, I do wish you success. I assure you I'm not speaking out of envy when I suggest you remain humble. I am significantly closer to literally success than you are.

I'm talking about the obscurer grammatical rules that most people have no interest in or understanding of. And my parents weren't just reading me "stories" actually. They read me the kind of books people here struggle to comprehend, and made sure each night that I was comprehending what I heard, asking me questions about a particular passage or a piece of dialogue to make sure I understood the subtler aspects of what the author was trying to communicate, whether I understood every words, and so on. I wasn't just passively lying there being bored to sleep like you were. I don't care when you first started reading. I started reading earlier than you.

Except I'm not. And you're mad and lying. Stop.

Obscurer grammatical rules? Like not ending a sentence with a preposition?

I'm not mad, or lying. I actually think YOU are lying. This is so weird.

Have fun bragging or being a showoff on the internet, it's a little pointless. You're lucky to have had a good literary education but it's not in any way exceptional and it doesn't make you an exceptional person. I started reading books considered to be "for adult readers" when I was twelve and started reading books in English around that time, and in Spanish a few years later (I'm French). I'm thankful for my upbringing but having been exposed to a great amount of cultural works doesn't make one exceptional, hard work can do that though, but your lack of humility could make you less objective about the value of what you produce... Well on the other hand I'm too pessimistic to put enough effort in my writing so it's not any better

>haha

haha

awful b8 m8 wouldn't r8 8/8

Distilling long, primordial chains of thoughts conceived in half-dreams and half baked daydreams into a coherent narrative. Central theme is resentment and how one struggles with it. There will be a victory on the paper but not one behind the paper.

this fucking bait

Nothing personal, but I really loathe and hate you, with a cluster-fucking passion.

Pretty good actually! I finished the first (shit) draft yesterday, going to start rewriting next week, want to give it time to cool. I know I have a few loose plot lines and characters who wind up in limbo, but that's because I didn't plan most of it at all. Hope the second draft clears most of that up.

It comes out on 20/04/99

There is no month "20", you silly goof.

Someone tell me how to discipline myself pls

Can't tell if subtle pro US joke or stupid.

user, listen to me because this is important.

Habit first and foremost. Just start writing every day.

And then, take modafinil. With those two things you simply can't fail unless you're completely retarded.

leave this place, degenerate

began writing novel #2 mid-February. i'm now 35k words deep and just finished the first act, which was a bit lengthier than i thought it would be. was aiming for 25-30k words for each act or chapter, and three acts/chapters overall. still aiming for less than 100k but wouldn't be surprised if it comes in at that. my first novel, which i am presently shopping, came in at 114k after edits. i figure novel #2 can be spruced down in subsequent drafts to 80-90k.

I don't understand.

IM HAPPY
HAPPY PEOPLE LAUGH!

What's your first novel about, user?

Top arrogant Kek!!

finished
but now I have 3 chapters of 5 different novels because I couldn't pick a concept I liked most
I did end up picking one. Hopefully I'll stick with it
I really want to write a sequel to my first one but If it's not getting published I don't want to put in the effort right now

A story about a lone public servant in some office.
I can't re-read my own work if it's not sticking to the ground by both of it's feet.
The embarrasement I get from reading them would make me depressed.

> start writing out the autistic story that has been going on in my head for years, ever since I was young
> get to 320,000 words over the last few years
> read about Henry Darger, get even more driven to finish this
> despite having written 550 pages of shit I am not even 5% complete, and that's assuming I cut out huge parts of the story besides.
> tfw the story is still going so there is almost no way I can keep up with it
> tfw a couple major characters are probably going to die soon and I feel like I will need to actually write out their death scenes to come to terms with their deaths
> tfw character you've had since literally seventh grade dies heroically in battle as you wander around college campus at night by streetlamp
> tfw you will never finish that novel

Outlining is my only hope. I wanted to make a pixel art comic/movie thing but I suck at pixel art and it is so tedious. Might do it anyway and just skip over a ton of everything.

It's hard remembering half of what happened in elementary school so I have huge time gaps I will have to fill in.

The worst part is that no one will ever like this. I am creating it for myself and only for myself. I will leave it behind when I die and never be rewarded for what I create. Which I am okay with. It just feels weird.

I'm just gonna wait for the finish book sir honesty. Kek.

You'll be waiting a good seventy years.

In the meantime I'll start reading this.

I don't know if my concept is good enough.
Also I don't know if i'm such a good writer to execute that concept in a perfect way.

That's terrifying. It's also probably a small fraction of wikipedia. Which is more terrifying.

I've been slaving over the first chapter (which could be read alone as a short story) for months.

I felt pretty good about writing two and 1/2 pages for a brisk dream sequence. It's the only way I can show my main character's backstory without breaking his personality.

Haven't written a sentence in fucking weeks. I only have like 10 pages. Just gas me now.

I wish I could. It's either be ambitious or be nothing.

English Wikipedia in 2013 without images.

so you're basing your magnum opus on a story you thought up while in elementary school and you're presently having difficulties with it because you can't remember a lot of it? uh...

well, how many chapters are you planning and how long is the first chapter? i'm splitting my story into 3 chapters and have concluded the first chapter at 35,000 words. it took me 2 1/2 months.

advice - don't focus too much on the first chapter, you'll go back to it plenty of times throughout subsequent drafts.

I was struck by a sudden flash of inspiration when I visited Hong Kong for the first time on Monday. Now I'm 8,000 words into a half-formed idea that I feel I need to get out if only for my own sake. In the last year I've finished two other novels, one I'll send to publishers when I'm back home and the other I'm thinking of just giving away for free online (since it's about Veeky Forums and vaporwave and other shit no normal person would want to read about). I basically write about nothing but neon-drenched Asian cities with scifi and Marxist philosophy bolted on top.

Is it okay if the title of my novel is the same title as another fairly famous work (The Fall by Albert Camus)?

Thanks Rick

tell me about vaporwave. the wikipedia page isn't very detailed.

I envision 20-30 chapters.. chapter one is about 7k for reference. I'm definitely a perfectionist. Particularly with the first chapter- I feel like that's what anybody that might publish my story would read.

Depending on who you ask, it's either an entire musical genre spawned from the PS1 boot noise, or a radical deconstruction of consumerism and capitalism.

Or just really good music to use in Vines.

I'm writing genre fiction.

About 27K words in, after chopping off 6K words when I realized the story was going in the wrong direction. I'm fairly satisfied with it so far, even though the concept is sort of stupid. I like the story, but it's sort of juvenile. I don't know.

Is it bad that I'm populating certain characters with actors I enjoy in my head? I think it's a bad habit I picked up when screenwriting.

I've always interpreted it as a kind of soundtrack to the idea of accelerationism. This article really influenced what I thought of the genre: dummymag.com/features/adam-harper-vaporwave. But really I just used it as the basis for a trippy scifi novel about a city made of eighties/nineties Japanese nerd culture tropes.

the only harm i could see in it is being disappointed if it were to be turned into a film and getting c-list actors.

If this book turns into a film I am going to be fucking ecstatic, even if it's populated by actors I hate.

Then again, it's possible that they could ruin it when translating it to film. Hm. I guess I'd just ask to be a co-writer on the screenplay and only sell to studios I trust?

Whatever, it's way too early to think of that shit. Time to go back to writing a scene where doctors have an argument about if a dragon's brain structure is likely to be closer to that of a lizard or a bird.

If you can get money from writing it doesn't matter. Do whatever it takes to get your work out.

what the fuck that sounds rad. i hope that goes well for you. good luck friend!

Good luck to you as well.

Well, I'm still just writing now. Hopefully my book's premise is in the sweet spot of "weird enough to be interesting, not too weird to put off potential buyers" and I can get published.

This shit's gonna need heavy editing first, but I have good resources for that. Then I guess I find an agent and go from there? I've never really tried this before.

Ilost account of how many times that happened.

I finished my third novel two weeks ago, after finishing the second in October. I queried for agents for a while and then started thing about swallowing a bullet and stopped. I'm probably going to give birth to another unwanted thing before the end of this year.
That's pretty much it.

No I am basing it off of a story I started in elementary school and have been continuing ever since as a sort of habit.

The difficulty is not remembering it; most of the plot I remember. I have 40-something pages of outline. It's the massive volume of what I have to cover. Thirteen years of internal storytelling.

>thirteen years of internal storytelling
My first full length book came from this exact sort of thing. The truth is, you probably won't be able to cover all that content because of how elaborate you can get in your head. That sort of detail is a major pain in the ass to get on paper. If you can find your outline, cut out anything that takes away from the main plot or seems unnecessary so you can get your main ideas on paper in the form of an actual story. After that, add on the details, but try to simplify things a bit more as to not make it harder for you to write, and for the reader to understand.

That's a good idea. I'm trying to cut out everything I can... timeskip as much as possible. The plot is unbelievably huge and it isn't really going anywhere. Honestly it will never be finished but at best I can write some fragments of it and maybe someday someone will read it.

Or I will leave off parts of the story for a while. There were huge gaps of time where I did almost nothign with it because of depression, or of distraction. I mean the story in my head, not the writing. But other than that it will probably keep going out of need to entertain myself.

Who here /notebooksfullofrandomideasandoutlinesforstoriesbutnoactualstories/?

> I'm probably going to give birth to another unwanted thing before the end of this year.

>writing a novel in one year

You know, maybe if you actually cared about your product, others would care about it to.

F. Scott Fitzgerald loved him some Alabama pussy. The only problem is, that pussy wasn't giving it up because he was a broke yankee. He wrote This Side of Paradise, became a celebrity, went down to Bama, got that piece of pussy, and pimped her psycho ass out for years to come.

Ah Veeky Forums
One second we've got poem critiques, the next something like this appears
God I love it here.

>product

First book will be on Amazon and smashwords next week. Gonna release the next volumes in the series every 90-120 days for the next three years