How's the writing career coming, Veeky Forums?

I hate everything I write and so will everyone else

I get paid to write essays for college students.

I get the satisfaction knowing that most professors are dupes doing it because it's a cushy job.

I do 1 page here, then start another story, 1 page.

I'm too scared to go any further, i scare myself out of almost anything.

I just quit my job so I could potentially write more

(I haven't written in weeks)

I've just started experimenting with poetry from a more surrealist and absurd viewpoint and its coming out pretty good. I'll never be a writer as a career. I hope to eventually get something published in a journal or something.
In the modern day author, much like musician, is a job for people who can already get any job they want, ie: the rich and well connected.
I'm still young and I don't know where I'm going with life, but I'll figure it out. Most do eventually.

Looking into formatting what I have atm for self-publishing. Thinking of using Lulu but open to recommendations.

What does Veeky Forums think of this Gaddis (on wanting to write vs to be a writer):

youtu.be/bb7FJoiPuBk

Wanting to "be a writer" is and always will be a disaster. I think these dipshits are mostly the ones responsible for all the awful stereotypes about writers. This is particularly true with all these new "woke" publications that sneer at the dumb straight white male who has literary pretensions. They're not writers, not really; they want to be writers, but they aren't, because if they had to, they could live their lives comfortably without ever writing a word.

Still resting on the laurels of the two poems I got published in a national publication 6 years ago. Far longer than can possibly be mentally healthy. Haven't published a damn thing since.

Dude, look into draft2digital.com

It's an aggregator that will put you I I markets all over the globe and they'll format all your shit for you.

Preach. I stopped going to writers groups meetings because of all the fuckibg posers. They show up, read a few paragraphs some first draft pseudo-edge social commentary stolen from the remnants of a conversation about how fight club is cool and then they want people to fawn over them and pat them on the back and tell them they'll be the next j d Salinger. 6 months later they're still "trying to get the wording right" on the same paragraphs. Thank god they drop 2 grand for the Mac book right?

Christ are people like that actually common or is this humorous exaggeration

I wish I was kidding. They've eased off a bit lately. Here's the breakdown of what you'll usually get:

Old guys making books about growing up poor or being in a war

Fat chicks who write paranormal/fantasy romance with a thin version of themselves as the MC

Sperglords trying write themselves as a techno assassin and getting the girl in the end.
Older women writing cook books.
One older guy writing a mystery
One person who thought it would be cool and will never come back after one meeting
The hot chick who can't write for shit but wants to be a writer
The ugly chick who writers erotica
The one other person who actually produces work
The SJW who wants to hijack every conversation to talk about their shit because they can't afford therepy
Three over/underweight guys who write sci fi fantasy
You.

Accurate.

>Three overweight guys who write sci fi fantasy

heh

I have no actual talent and I'm not creative enough to come up with even the simplest of stories.
I think I might be retarded, but that's unrelated.
So.. Not well.

2bh I'd rather read pulpy sci-fi shit over some 19 year old's pretentious philosophical whining or some bitch complaining how fucking 20 dudes in a week makes her a slut

The sperglord wouldn't stop acting like a total sperg so I actually stood up in the middle of a meeting and told him that if he didn't shut the fuck up I was going to drag him out in to the parking lot and beat the shit out of him.

I actually got a written apology. Go me.

>told him that if he didn't shut the fuck up I was going to drag him out in to the parking lot and beat the shit out of him

What kind of 'sperging' deserves that kind of threat? What did he say?

Me too. I like reading and would be content with just that. I enjoyed writing papers for school, but I have no creativity or smarts. I could spend my whole life writing and editing my work and it would still be garbage. I'd rather spare myself the embarrassment and dejection.

beating people up in writing class for being spergs sounds just as spergy.

you sound like a sperg yourself

I seriously despise letters.

Well, I don't see any alternative for my writers «workshop», especially since I write in Spanish. I'll have to suck up all the cringe as I can't make even my friends read my stuff.

>so many old people who are concerned with something other than their social status

Sounds pretty comfy, desu.

>I seriously despise letters

I love writing letters but I only write to my Grandma because she's the only one that sends them.

He's always been an annoying shit beta. God bless the group leader for putting with it this long. He likes to make snarky comments during critique to be witty but always fails. Always. On that particular night a young female first timer showed up and he sat down right next to her and did his damndest to impress her. It went on for 40 minutes before I'd had enough. It was bad. Like, really bad

Relative to 5 years ago, better. I think I could afford a few beers a month on the money.

I have a dayjob that lets me write. If you're a sysadmin, you can write prose in a text editor and people ask if you're hacking the government.

Also helps having an editor gf, who took improving your writing as a personal project.

Kek it's always the goatee

This, I don't mind much people that comes up with shitty stuff; but these fucking imbeciles with these fucking attitudes. You almost expect them to call people plebs unironically.

He's always been annoying but it got to the point where he was disruptive and not listening to the group leader who everyone actually respects. He claims he writes fanfiction although he never brings any to share. I can't imagine what depths of gender bent depravity he has Megatron and rainbow dash doing on the holodeck new that they're both in starfleet

Working on my second novel. It will take three more years to finish I believe. It's my best work so far by a stretch and it has a trendy topic. This might be the time I go big, I'm confident.

I write a few articles for a very small website. I doubt I'll ever be a fiction writer because I lack the creativity or writing skill to create engaging fiction and characters.

I appreciate your honesty

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I think I'm finally finding a way to approach writing the first novel in a way that doesn't feel daunting or like I'm just padding it out.
I've not sent my most recent (and best) short pieces out to be published by magazines like I usually do, instead I'm adding interesting texture and spinning them together to make a larger, cohesive piece. I'm feeling quite optimistic about it. When I overcome my procrastination and alcoholism I'm certain I can produce something worthwhile.

It's something I realized recently when I started taking writing seriously. I was never much of a storyteller anyways and wrote better essays or explanatory pieces.

what is that trying to comunicate? Sadness? Reprival? Disdain? I can't tell.

I have a work that's sitting at 20k words, which I haven't touched since last year.

Why?

Because it's genre (sci-fi) fiction, and Veeky Forums talked me out of it because of it.

Now I waste my time writing philosophical aphorisms.

Badly, of course. I'm more in to screenplays. I lack the poetic sensibility for prose but have trouble with brevity so my screenplays are a mess.

Perhaps I should try short stories. I have a million ideas, but no way of stitching them together.

Finish your sci fi piece. Get amped. Knock that shit out. Fuck the haters

Give me your ideas user, I'm blocked since I decided to write a novel.

That's cute, user

Contrary to Veeky Forums's deprecation of genre fiction, not everything has to be Joyce-tier High Literature in order to be worth writing. If it's interesting/well-written enough, you'll have an audience.

You already put 20k words in. Finish it off so it's not hanging over your head anymore, and then move onto something more complex if you like. Or even just keep doing what you're doing, because there's nothing wrong with that.

isn't really hard to become professor tho?

thinking of becoming a porn actor instead desu

>Sperglords trying write themselves as a techno assassin and getting the girl in the end.
my sides

dis

>tfw I will never start a writers' guild
why even live

>have a clubhouse
>people come to talk and write and read and hang
>one finished work required every month
>publish the best works every quarter
>this will never exist
oh well

Thanks.

I might get around to it. Ideally, because it's good to have 'Fuck You'-money when moving into politics/philosophy.

I know. Although I actually do think Veeky Forums was right, in a way. Their arguments against genre fiction convinced me (to an extent), and the only reason why I bothered writing it was in protest of the fact that something so terrible as ASOIAF could become so popular/acclaimed.

You probably shouldn't quit your job to become a writer unless you've already published something and know that you need the extra time to become better.

Formatted my drive and didn't save the novel i was writing. It wasn't shit, but when I started writing it I thought it a good idea to give my main character superpowers, but as I wrote more, I realised how retarded it was and stopped writing it. Don't feel like rewriting

I'm close to 75k now in this Urban Fantasy.

It's more like a traveler fantasy novel now.

I've divided the points of view I need into four parts, and I'm working out a closer scene for part 3. It's going pretty well.

>draft2digital.com
rofl they steal 10% of your profit, that's highway robbery

>one finished work required every month
Why?

i starte to work on my memoir, anyone care to read and point out what is bad? its in polish btw
pastebin.com/kpWwQzDV

Veeky Forums has an obsession with classifying art as plebeian or patrician. It stopped being a joke long ago and a lot of people here now only consume art they are «allowed» to by the Veeky Forums patricians.

So you're not someone who «wants to be» a writer. A writer is a person who writes, albeit in a shitty way.

It's a pretty basic way of deciding who is a "real writer".It would probably drive away those who are really serious and significantly reduce the quality of work produced.
Why not just have a screening where a potential member submits some writing and if it has merit they are allowed in?

You have a point, but it could be changed to simply present progress.

>self-publishing
Selling 10 books a year won't give you a career, user.

just like write book or whatever

It's a start, besides the first one I'm working on is just an old fantasy/sci-fi project that I want to finish and send out the door.

It's not. I haven't written anything since January, and it was only super basic information about major plot points and character backgrounds.

it's going good. i'm only 19 right now, and i'm not wanting writing to be a full time thing, but more of a side thing. i've got tons of ideas right now and over the next few years i'll try to write as many books and short stories as i can, and then fire them all away to publishers. if none of them bite, oh well

Don't wait too long.

i'll try not to! i have a few stories planned out though. i'm gonna try to finish the abridged story plans before writing it all out in detail as the real story

Work in progress.

Figuring out my elevator pitch and story synopsis while working on the second book (75k words in) of my YA trilogy that will be the modern Les Miserables.

Jesus fuck, backups are essential when you're working on computers. It takes two second to upload your shit on some meme cloud service.

Have you actually WRITTEN anything? Almost any person has enough ideas to fill a library.

i have written things before. short stories yeah, not a full book yet. i once got through about 1/4th of one before i decided it was crap, but i might try to spiffy it up and save it

Neither will shitposting on Veeky Forums

I'm on the verge of finishing yet another short story. I'll run it by my writing workshop and my friend for edits and critiques, then I'll start submitting it. In the last year I've gotten a few short stories published, so things are finally looking up.

I finished a 58k word novel (Though I guess it's a novella by today's standards?) and submitted it to Amazon's Kindle Scout program a few weeks ago.

I was trying for a literary fiction thing but I guess the genre veered more towards fantasy and it's the more 'popular' category so I'm calling it fantasy when it really isn't.

This is exactly my experience.