/lit/ - Literature

I didn’t name myself. Others gave me my name.

Pretty good. Vampire book cover is finished so I need to finish the profile on Ingram spark for the paperbacks. Book 15 is only 10 pages so far but having been unemployed since late October has messed with my writing work ethic. It’ll be good as soon as I’m working again. The goal, as always, is to land another job, master everything as fast as possible and then write on the company dime. I always write better on someone else’s time. Plus it frees up my evenings for outings instead of being at a keyboard. 16 and 17 will follow quickly behind since they’re sequels of 14 and 15 and another trilogy of books follows that unless the vampire books earns enough momentum to write the already planned 2 sequels for it. I’m spending WAY too much time playing PUBG. I’ve never witnessed such cheating. It’s aggravating to spend 10 minutes gathering shit only to get no scoped from 200 yards away by some fuck head using a hack

>>14689001
It has to mean more to you than doing other things. You have to find a greater satisfaction and contentment in the practice than the distractions that would keep you from it. I hope you choose to pursue it but I can tell you that it is a lonely and solitary pursuit. I just celebrated 15 years of writing in August and I just lost my dad. I have to ask myself, how many more hours could I have gotten with him if I hadn’t done so? But on the other hand, he was going to die anyway and so will I. The question is whether I can create something that will survive after I’m gone like he has. I run a weekly/monthly writers group at the local library and every session is full of people who will commit and those who won’t. It’s not for everyone because it’s hard work and it could be years or even decades of hard work all for nothing. But therein lies the allure. The idea of creating something bigger than yourself that communicates with huge numbers of people greater than if you went door to door for the rest of your life. My father had dementia and towards the end ,during a spat he got more violent than usual. He berated me for writing and told me I was wasting my time and that no one would ever read it. In that moment it was genuinely hard to tell which part was the illness and which part was his disappointment. Maybe both. Maybe neither. I wanted to be proud of me but hadnt developed my craft well enough to show him or have a book contract to prove him wrong. This year I’ll begin releasing the dozen or so books I’ve written as I feel comfortable sharing them as well as the fact that I don’t want to die with them sitting on a hard drive and never finding the readers who will enjoy the work I’ve put into them. I’m not sure what I’m trying to say. I’m tired. Either you will or you won’t. I hope you’ll take on the demanding but rewarding burden.

I’m just writing down the daydreams of my youth.

>>14572549
Agreed. I just wrote a rough draft for shits and giggles. I did however plot out the rest of the story to be a novel/novella. I could seriously take it or leave it

>>14451352
Would anyone be interested in a space opera novel? Thinking about sharing with other /lit/ anons before I publish next year. If so, post a disposable email an I’ll send something along.

Of course you can.

I think I would pay good money to see someone get a tattoo of the lonely gaspump shed

This isn’t Reddit or instagram, newfag. Nobody wants to see you or them sloppy titties.

Trips and names are so passé

>>12271087
What ever happened to your space opera and Kentucky vampire story?

Someone call Gaskun...