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How's the book coming along, /lit/?

>> No.10738369

>How's the book coming along, /lit/?
I've wrote around 70 pages, and will likely attempt to finish it at the end of the year. However, I'm relatively unsure as to the quality of it, as the writing looks like schizophrenia personified

>> No.10738374

book????

>> No.10738382

When i started this year i didnt even dream about writing let alone making a book. Now im on the plan of starting with a book of short fictions. Pretty hyped.

>> No.10738428

>>10738311
Not bad actually. I would share some if people actually wanted to read it.

>> No.10738435

I'm writing a lot of narrative poetry right now instead.

>> No.10738674

>>10738311
the hwat

>> No.10739361

>>10738311
I'm writing 3-4 pages a day, so pretty good, I guess.

>> No.10739365

>>10739361
you are like little babby

>> No.10739449

1-2 page a day

>> No.10739453

>>10738311
Poorly, I've got maybe 50 different scene and three hundred thousand words but absolutely no story.
No start, no middle, no end.

Just garbage scenes that don't fit together.

>> No.10739460

>>10739453
that was rough. then how will you edit that?

>> No.10739464

360 pages of pure unedited dribble written entirely without any experience writing a book where each character takes an element from my struggles in life and deals with it over the course of the story. I have no idea what I’m doing, if I don’t write it then depression comes leaping back into my life.

>> No.10739470

>>10738311
I feel like if you are just mocking at me directly and questioning me about my procrastination... then I remeber the whole world doens't spin around me "The anon-centrist theory" is debunked, and only can think you feel pleasure of doing this by reading sad stories of broken hopes and dreams. Or maybe you are just curious for own motivation, anyway, have most of the story on my head but have written less than 10 pages

>> No.10739474

>>10739464
Ok, maybe not so much as dribble. I have edited it from time to time, usually in my schools library since I’m an introverted fuck. It’s pretty alright and I hope to get it out there one of these days.

>> No.10739489

>>10739474
what is it about? I am curious, and maybe I am wrong but it isn't a young adult novel or is it?

>> No.10739490

>>10738369
You're probably thinking too high of yourself, most likely it's not schizophrenia, it's just shit

>> No.10739497

Pretty good, I'm paying a ghost writer.
Hasn't sent me any pages in a while, but he says he's currently doing research for all the sex scenes.

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10739505

Have to re-read almost every paragraph and can hardly concentrate yet I have to go on. Fuck reading philosophy.

>> No.10739514

>>10739497
do ghost writers earns good money?

>> No.10739542

>>10739489
It’s pretty autistic, but, not at all is it YA, I don’t read many of those. It’s about a group of people that search for a mythical “ark” admist a shannara-like world where different periods of time led kingdoms exist after an unspecific apocalypse occurred that was so drastic it spawned different fantasy races, made the average IQ level drop, and plunged the world population by billions.

>> No.10739546

>>10739460
I probably won't, it's garbage.

Gonna do a writing course to gain some insight into story structure, been reading that "writing for dummies" and the snowflake method seems interesting.
>pastebin.com/EK7baHA0

This is the level I'm at right now, depressing it's depressing as fuck.

>>10739464
myafricanamerican.jpg

>> No.10739547

>>10739542
sounds like an ok premise, but with a good execution it could be awesome, take attnetion to details anon, and good luck!, make me wish I wouldn't be so lazy at typying

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>>10739547
Thanks, anon. Pic related is pretty much how I view it.

>> No.10739558

>>10739554
that pic looks promising as hell, but I guess it wouldn't look like that since is a diferent world, kind of remeber the idea I had for a game some time ago, again, I hope you finish and hell even read it!

>> No.10739573

3,700 words yesterday, 3,200 words today. 33k in the last two and a half weeks. Of course, it's trash at the moment, but I have the will to finish it at least. I'm feeling the passion, it's amazing.

>> No.10739575

>>10739573
how many minutes do you spend writing daily? also often from those 3,700 words how many survive the editing process?

>> No.10739584

>>10739575
Roughly, I'd say about 2 hours a night after work. Depends on weather it's plot or not. Which in my case half of it was. About 1k or so will be binned and/or replaced.
Sometime I have a problem where I write shit that doesn't relate to the character, so it gets chopped pretty quick.

>> No.10739592

>>10739584
thanks for the answer anon, keep up the good work, it must be tiring to write after work, isn't your work mind-demanding?

>> No.10739598

>>10738311
It's just been published.

>> No.10739602

>>10739592
Telecom network design. Can get boring, it's draining mind wise but I'm not complaining, it's honest work. I find that writing is something that makes me super relaxed. Not something to get lost in or escape though. And cheers anon, I hope you do well too.

>> No.10739604

Pop pop pop watchin African Americans drop

>> No.10739632

>>10739365
I'm also super depressed.

>> No.10739633

I dont understand how people write 200 pages novels. Maybe I'm too stupid or too autistic. The "novel" I'm currently writing should come out to only 10k words. I know the start, the end, and how to get there. I don't think I rush, I think that the ideas I have are simply not suited to a novel's length

>> No.10739635

>>10739598
What's it about?

>> No.10739636

Not good. I'm putting my main story on hold for a short story I can put on Amazon in order to test the waters.

I just have so many high level ideas that I'm unable to translate into novels, and even then I don't write a whole ton. Most of my chapters end up being about 1000 words, and that's if I push myself. Sometimes they're longer, but that's been more rare as time goes on...

>> No.10739716

>>10739635
It's a collection of contes cruel.

>> No.10739801
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10739801

66k words

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10739808

>when some asshole has written 1,500,000 words for their dumb fanfic and I'm still under 20,000

>> No.10739817

Instead of writing I sat in my room, drank 35 litres of the cheapest red wine for 3 months

>> No.10739844

>>10739801
we fucking know

>> No.10739850

>>10739801

sounds like it would make for a good film as well. keep it up.

>> No.10739851

>>10739817
me, about 20 bottles of cheapest rum. but I did write, too.

>> No.10739877

>>10739497
Haha I bet he is

>> No.10740074

>>10738311
I haven't started yet, i've not even finished to think the plot

>> No.10740094

I'm decently far along, but I know it's written like absolute shit, just like everything else I have ever written

>> No.10740126

>>10740094
This is how I saw myself for a long time when writing. You have to let go of it. Give your work to someone who can critique it and build off that. You improve beyond belief when social pressure is added.

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10740302

Started doing short stories a few months ago. Anything longer feels way too daunting for me.
Working on the third atm. Feels good desu.

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10740501

>Can't write that fast
>A couple hundred words with a couple thousand on a good day
>Writing in fits and spurts
>Every time I start getting a good pace going some bullshit crops up that forces me to put shit down for a few days
>Every time I come back to it I have a harder and harder time getting back to a good pace
I just wanted to have a first draft out by the summer.

>> No.10741129

>>10739808
In Search of Lost Smash Brothers is kino you hack

>> No.10741699

im a brainlet and although i have ideas for books i cant write anything that isnt complete shit

>> No.10741835

>>10738311
I just started again after being sexually harassed by people in the critique thread a few months ago. I was quite traumatic.

>> No.10741842

>>10741699
*It

>> No.10743299

>>10739801
stop posting this garbage.

>> No.10743307

>>10738311
Good, just need to whip the Afrikan slave girl more whose writing this. I'm barely literate, so I have her to write my stuff for me. She doesn't get a cent for her work, but I'll give her my white, thick cock if she's a good girl and finishes this epilogue.

>> No.10744116

>>10741835
Post your ass with a printout of your writing sandwiched between your cheeks

>>10741699
Why don't you at least try to write something and have it critiqued?

>> No.10744196
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>>10738311
It's a mystery/thriller novel. Finished it the other week. Just waiting for it to get edited now, then I can put it up on Amazon (not even going to bother going the traditional route). Also, tonight I started writing my next book, a dark fantasy. Done about 1200 words so far. Still in the prologue. Good luck to everyone out there.

>> No.10744220

>>10744196
suicide

>> No.10744314

>>10738311
Gradually making progress.
I've developed on the ideas of Berkeley and come to interesting conclusions. I've decided to become an academic so I'll wait until I'm doing my PhD or after to think about publishing it.

>> No.10744320

>>10744196
It's like I'm really on r/writing
Kys

>> No.10744329

I'm trying to think of a way to accurately express my pornography addiction. Not a whole lot of luck so far.

>> No.10744439

>>10744329
Well, how has it affected your life?

>> No.10744456

>>10744439
positively im sure everyone loves people who jerk off multiple times a day every day for years its really attractive behavior to compulsively do all the time

>> No.10744538

I'm writing it as a novel, an epic poem, a play, and a screenplay all at the same time because I'm not sure which it will be best as.

>> No.10745569

>>10744456
Have the plot be a downward spiral and make a allegory or two toward drug addiction.

>> No.10745752

>>10738311
My magnum opus is going great, thanks for asking!

>> No.10745987

Got a few different ideas floating around. I wanted to start with my 'best' idea but I've been told multiple times you're first time writing a novel is Hell and you will most likely disregard the finished product. So I've started with another idea, but I don't want to follow that mindset. If it happens, it happens.

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>>10739497
LOL

>> No.10746002

>>10738311
I have a first shitty rough draft of my erotic novella. Going to go back over it after I finish a couple essays for class in the next week.
>Tfw too much of a pussy to start on serious work

>> No.10746008

>>10739365
explain yourself.
>>10739453
> three hundred thousand words
How did you get to that point without a story? Wouldn't it be better to make those words short stories?
>>10739514
No.
>>10739573
How can you write so much? I never pass the 2500.

>> No.10747511

>>10738674
w-hwat

>> No.10748984

>>10738311
Scrapped it, starting a new one.

>> No.10748995

>>10738311
100 pages of disappointment

>> No.10749021

>>10739470
Write at least a word a day

>> No.10749041

>>10738311
almost at 30,000 words in about 4 months

I still got more to go.
It's a compilation of religious stories in my life, short fictional stories, regular stories in my life, apologetic sections, and many aphorisms that regard theology, beauty, prayer, and meditation

>> No.10749099

Mine is about a action-drama about an arsonist who goes back in time to give his past-self a better life before he becomes him and destroys the future, and they eventually develop a father-son relationship. It’s my first book and is currently 60k from beginning to end (I predict it’ll barely be 70k words by the final draft). I’m currently ironing out the plot with some notes and will implement them when I feel like I can make the gut punch emotional moments not sound/feel like shite