/lit/ - Literature

>>14852007
I'd recommend not doing that and writing a bunch of short stories first, even if they won't get published. That way you won't have to lose so much work when you fuck up in some way and you learn good structure and writing habits. If you have put in the work and can write decent short stories already then you should know how to write a novel, you just do the same thing but in longer form and with more of everything.

If you want a book on writing then I'd recommend Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight, I've read quite a lot of them and it's the best book on the matter I've found. Its two hundred pages contains pretty much everything you could possibly learn from a book on writing. Damon Knight was an editor first and writer second, so he knows just about every way in which you probably will fuck up and gives advice accordingly.

As for when you begin to write your novel then planning with an outline, perseverance and then editing are key. You need to have an idea of the story which you are excited about enough that you will pull through and not drop the novel before its done, then when you have written it you need to revise your work to make it more cohesive and flow better. Remove the parts which are unnecessary and that makes the text flabby, rewrite what doesn't work and so on. You need to be pretty brutal with this stuff if you want it to be good.

Or, if you intend to sell it on the kindle store, if it is YA, or worse, if it's LitRPG or something, then take some advice from Moorcock and rush that sucker in under a week or so and don't revise it, just publish whatever you got at the end of your intense writing session. Here's a handy guide from the master of hacks himself: http://www.ghostwoods.com/2010/05/how-to-write-a-book-in-three-days-1210/ Don't waste too much of your time on something that is meant to be very low-brow disposable entertainment, it's pearls thrown to swine and they won't care your efforts. You still need to make it a good read mind you, but first draft is good enough and don't pour your sweat into any fancy stuff, keep it simple and quick.

>>9947440
How come his stuff is so hard to find in print? I've read some of his stories and liked them a lot. I'd rather not read digital copies if I have a choice though but I suppose I have to in this case.

I want to write dinocore, how does one start? Are there books on this matter? The thing that it seems the dino writers have in common are rich lives and interests outside of literature. Do I basically just git gud at life and I won't write garbage like Rothfus? What's the essence of dinocore? Higher values, higher education and higher thoughts? The emulation of traditional myth and folklore? A lack or irony and inbreeding of ideas?

Please help me out.