Writing

Here's an excerpt from my novel

The Chinese man, chopping his dog legs, took a crunch of the fortune cookie lodged between his two front teeth. He exclaimed, "oing Ching choi Ba! Ching choi Ba!!!!" Then he let out a huge fart. The end

Hit a few minor roadblocks in resolving a minor character's arc, but otherwise it's just about finished. Hoping to send the penultimate draft to my editor by the end of next month.

Dont know if this is a meme but its fucking great. Is it and if not when will you be done

2/2
i'm still tweaking it, but most of it is done

>t.s. eliot via ergodic literature
yawn

>insulting my work with words i don't recognize
please stop

omg classic Veeky Forums!

bad i keep putting it off and when i do write its a mess that makes no sense

I just found another way I have to re-write the entire damn thing from scratch which means it will probably be another 3 or four months before I make any semblance of progress

>took college CW workshop course like OP's pic
>tried some creative fiction
>literally no helpful commentary, just general negativity
>write bland "personal essay"
>everyone gushes over it
>still no helpful critique
How do I find a fiction workshop that isn't full of fuckin' chumps who don't actually want fiction

>I'm almost done with the rape canticle

I've written almost 50,000 words now. I thought it would only take about 60,000 words or so for this but it's looking to be a lot more.
I don't know what I'll do with it when I'm done either.

i can help you. i'm p good at figuring out what works in a piece specifically, but i'm not nice about it (because it risks dishonesty and i want to be honest)

Is there a Veeky Forums Discord for writing and critique? That might be cool.

i think there is, but another way would be to pm my reddit account

I started writing a shitty Wombles psychological horror parody in November as a joke and was on target to have it finished by December but with all the studying I need to do, I'll probably have it on hold until the summer if I haven't completely forgotten about it

What's the hot subreddit for critique
I just know of /r/fantasywriters but most of the stuff I see there is dogshit anyways so I'm not sure how much I should trust them

ITT: every pseud's 30 seconds of glory

i do r/OCpoetry but I can go line by line with fiction as well

Can't you faggots talk about reddit on reddit for shit's sake?

are you afraid of reddit user?
it's a resource and to treat sites as much more than that is a bit silly.

finally have a story that is simple enough that the themes can be as deep as necessary without either being boring or cliche.

So why don't you go talk of your novel on reddit?

I write poetry, not novels user. and i was offering my services for critque to someone else. why does that bother you?

>canticle
Kek

>when the brain doesnt like that the work isnt conforming to the norm but the deviation is really good

It's not like it's actually useful information. So the writing reddit is a good place to post your writing. No shit. It's in the fucking name.

I didn't tell him to post. I was going to offer my username so the guy can PM me, because I don't feel like having a burner email or sharing my with random people.

Things have ground to a halt since my daughter was born but in a month's time she'll be moving into the nursery and we'll get our evenings back. Instead of focusing on my large scale work (final draft of a novel prior to submission, research and structuring for the next) I've been writing short stories and reading T S Eliot. The man's sense of rhythm in language is unparalleled and it's something I'd like to emulate in my own prose.

I am working on a series of fantasy novels/romances. I have the first one finished completely to my satisfaction and am currently looking for an agent. I'm actively writing the second one right now, though things are slow. This is just my first draft of it, and I'm feeling my way forward, figuring out the plot and the nuances of the characters. At some point in the future I'll write a second draft that smooths everything over.

What are all these white people staring at?

My novel grounded to a halt because of life's responsibilities.
But I'm using a bunch of short stories to train my muscles into new grounds and actually trying to make some cash by selling home-printed little short story volumes.
Living the dream

I've been in a rut for awhile so I'm writing a simple fan fiction to get some practice and to get back into the habit of writing on a regular basis again.

I like the way it's going, but I'm a bit stuck on where to go. I'm at a point where the whole course of the narrative can change, and I'm not sure which direction to take it.

Would it be okay if I ask for some help?

Almost every character in my story either has a dead kid or dead parent. Am I a hack?

>writing a story about a psychological standoff between two men
>describe it to my brother
>"so why doesnt the one guy just punch fuck out of the other one?"

me on the left

Real talk though, I went to a writers club once and never went again

oh, and I forget dead friend. holy shit.

I mean, why indeed?
You would have to establish that both characters as psychological beings in the first place, or present them in a situation that a fist fight isn't reasonable.
I assume you do and your brother is just a dude bro kind of guy.

Bump

I added a new character and perhaps the framework for a new arc to fit in some other ideas I've had.

The character is a henchman for my big bad with a standard backstory. She couldn't get things going as a good guy, and so starting a career in bad was her best option, because it paid better and they were nice to her.

So, since she is cute and didn't start off bad, everyone is gonna want to see her be redeemed, including our heroes. It's too bad and so sad, because I am going to make her irredeemable. She's been bad too long, and there's no good left in her.

The point of her character is to make you angry at the big bad and root for the good guys.

So, why would her story make you angry at the big bad? Well, the big bad is the government who does a bad job giving opportunity to everyone, especially those who are poor or otherwise living on the edge of society (hence why she couldn't get anything going as a good guy).

That brings me to the framework for the new arc. Our heroes are going to be traveling to the capital after one of them gets a vague emergency call telling him to return. Naturally, on their way back, they're going to be curious about what the emergency is, so I figure that on their way to the capital, they should come across more people like the henchman who have been abandoned by their government, and that will give them an idea of what the emergency is, and it will make everyone mad at the big bad and get behind the good guys.

>come up with great idea
>start sketching it out
>everything's falling into place
>realize I'm just writing Crime and Punishment
EVERY DAMNED TIME I HATE BEING A PSEUD

Happy, complete, families are boring and make for poor fiction.

Right, but I don't have any in-between families. I either have happy families or dead relatives. See, I'm a hack.

>the qt
Err...

I enjoyed it with Capaldi. And it's not a deal breaker regardless, sex is far too important to be stopped for such frippery.

What a patrician group of peeples.

Is it a Batman multiverse fanfiction?

Because that's what it sounds like.

almost done
i just need to write it now

but i need my qt3.14 Veeky Forums waifu back

Anyone else get kind of jarred when they see photos of people smiling at the camera lens?

Like, people hardly ever smile at me in real life.

Seriously, I'd go for the plaid jacket chick. Yes, the fatty. I love me some chub.

Anyways, as for me, I've got two books self-published, got a sequel probably about 2/3 finished for one, but now working on an entirely new book that is BASICALLY probably going to be nothing short of gun porn... and I'm going to fucking love writing it. The story might be interesting as well. I've already shared the first few pages with a few people and they seem to generally approve, saying it sounds intriguing and that they want to read more of it.

>laptop with plastic cover on keyboard
>fatty
>slut
>doctor who fan
>overly nice pathetic boi

:(

i don't write

I started smiling recently. People seem happier to talk to me. Try it.

What are these? Post-singularity memes?

I want to impress a girl in lit class but I can't write shit. How do I start writing? Pls help.

Pleb.

Please don't say that. There is more for you, I know it.

Would anyone ever actually attend one of these? Serious question.

If not these then how about, writing retreats or courses that are a few weeks long?

Finally, if you would not attend any of the ladder mentioned things would you ever get an MFA in creative writing?

Bored, curious, pic unrelated

i'm not saying i'm any better-looking but all of these people look like Oblivion characters

I-It's Transformers.

That Travis Bickle looking mother fucker in the Camo jacket would be my pick. I want him to take me to a dirty movie and buy me Jujubes.

>Would anyone ever actually attend one of these?

GPA booster

>Like, people hardly ever smile at me in real life.
They would if u smiled at them.

Honestly, I'm not an approachable-looking dude when I'm just going about my business. It probably also doesn't help that I'm 6' tall, broad, and fairly strong. When my face is neutral, it seems to me that I look annoyed, angry, or maybe even mean. In spite of this I'm generally pretty friendly; when I am approached by someone or if I approach someone else, I smile, and they generally smile back. Typically I'm quite soft spoken and courteous, though I've had to put the niceties aside a few times before. You can't be nice when locked up, and I won't tolerate being condescended to or told over and over and over to do something that I already know I have to do like I'm some child. That shit pisses me off in a hurry, though I try to keep tabs on it.