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Are you ready to write a 50,000 word book in 30 days? This extreme exercise begins on November 1st (tomorrow!) and ends at midnight of November 30th.
It doesn't matter whether you want to write a novel or some short stories so long as you write 50k words during the month of November.

>https://discord.gg/n4fPcnx
Invite to our Discord. Join for casual writing talk, stay for the familiar 4chan autism.

>https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/nano/209817
Our thread over on the NNWM forum. Their website is rather useful for tracking your novel but the forum is not meant for freaks like us.

Use this thread to discuss ideas, ask questions, and tell us it's not possible to write anything worth reading in 30 days.

>> No.16687860
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BOOBA

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>>16687855
>>16687860

>> No.16687862

>>16687855
I want to get a girl pregnant so bad it’s not even funny

>> No.16687886
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>>16687862
i want to get a girl pregnant so bad that it actually is funny.

>> No.16687934

>>16687862
books for this feel?

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I’m ready
for spaghetti

>> No.16688153

>still havnt made my outline
oooo shit

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>> No.16688387

My entire company goes part-time in November so maybe I should try writing...

But I barely read and I haven't seriously tried writing in 5 years.

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>>16688387
just go for it bro, it will be fun even if you don't finish

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Don't post Crotchfruit pix. Enjoy your lifetime of child support payments cucks.

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Where do i... begin

>> No.16688628

>>16687855
Sublimate your desire to fap with writing this november. (Hard to do when you post qts like that though.)

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>>16687855
I also go to royalty free stock image websites to jack off to women. You would be surprised at how many goodies you find on there. I don't even need to watch porn.

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do novellas count?

>> No.16688707

>>16688693
Henlo discord fren

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>>16688476
Get yourself a clean journal, and storyboard and plan out what goes in which chapter. If you start writing haphazardly, you'll lose track. It's best to keep an outline that keeps you in check. Like

How many events go in:
Chapter 1: Event 1, 2, and 3
Chapter 2: Event 1, 2, and 3

And keep another side journal off the side to jot down other ideas to save for later. As for the actual writing of the 50,000 words, once you have an outline, then you have something to work with.

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>>16687855
>>16687860
>>16687862
>>16687886

What do you guys think about an erotic novel featuring a nine month pregnant Anne Frank as the protagonist?

>> No.16688712

>>16688709
i'm thinkin based

>> No.16688716

>>16688709
I would unironically not be ready for something so emotionally taxing

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>>16688436
It's so hard to resist the urge to breed.

>>16688153
Outline? Don't need it!

>>16688697
The goal is 50K words. It doesn't matter if it's all poetry, short stories or an entire novel.

>> No.16688729

>>16688722
why resist it?

>> No.16688746

>>16688374
>wedding photography
This slut had sex before marriage!

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>> No.16688878

>>16688799
nigger

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sounds... interesting

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My outline even features a fat, gun-toting American pedo anon attempting to shoot the main character dead halfway through the story, that's how inclusive my novel is. And he won't even feel out of place I swear.

With every new idea, I fall farther and farther away from a chance to get it published.

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>>16689001
>My outline even features a fat, gun-toting American pedo anon

I'd read that.

>> No.16689034

>>16689001
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman got published so you can too, anon.

>> No.16689107

>>16689001
>gun-toting American pedo
Mine too! He's a policeman as well.

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>just write a book

Stockett began writing the novel — her first — after the September 11th attacks.[4] It took her five years to complete and was rejected by 60 literary agents, over a period of three years,[5] before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett.[6][7] The Help has since been published in 35 countries and three languages.[8] As of August 2011, it had sold seven million copies in print and audiobook editions,[9] and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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>>16687862

>> No.16689574

why did you do this? I didn't know I had this instinct. Oh God..

>> No.16689582

>>16689574
lol. pregnancy makes a woman 10x cuter too.

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>>16689582

>> No.16689602

>>16687855
i attempted this a few years ago but unless you have a decent plan going in (or are unemployed with infinite free time) you'll probably fail. actually writing 50k words is the easy part of writing a novella

>> No.16689606

>>16689602
>actually writing 50k words is the easy part of writing a novella
explain, seems like the hard part to me

>> No.16689765

>>16689606
Hard part is writing a masterpiece and then spending every once of energy to stop yourself from rushing to publish and sit down every day and edit the fuck out of it. You’ll notice so many errors it will make your head spin. And then you will eventually get to the part where you will have to kill your darlings, because they are fucking cringey and you got swept in the moment. And then you gotta fill in the huge gaping holes that you didn’t notice. Once that’s done you gotta take a deep breath and edit again, and again, and again. And then... and then. You show it to someone. And then someone else. And if your smart you’ll take their criticisms as opportunities to improve it. If you can do do this, edit, for a few years, you will have something that will stand on its own two feet. Again, the hardest part comes after your “done”

>> No.16689811

So is this the new writing general?

>> No.16689919

I’mma write some genre fiction for Nano, and you can’t stop me!

>>16689765
Too real.

>> No.16690054

>>16688878

Nah this is a black woman.

>> No.16690092

It's a shame that the NaNoWriMo general is ruined by this faggot obsessed with this blonde ethot

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>>16688712

:)

>>16688716

lmao that's just the tip of the iceberg, I haven't even gotten to the part where the men of the Confederacy enter the picture...


Imagine if you will, a very overdue Anne being sent straight into labor after a night of exceptionally rough sex with Peter, experiencing both agonizing pain and indescribable pleasure as the moment of birth approaches, the opposing sensations fighting a battle for control of her body that becomes so intense that she becomes delirious to the point of barely being able to register her surroundings or even Peter's presence (even as he's basically shitting his pants from a mixture of fear and arousal), and as she pushes, she thinks that there's a thunderstorm raging outside when it's actually Confederate Air Force B-29 Superfortresses firing Republic-Ford JB-2 Loon cruise missiles into German troop concentrations miles away

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>>16689596
>>16689508

>> No.16691312

>>16687862
write a book about it

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It's insane how many actual schizos there are in the discord.

>> No.16691646

Got the first page done before 4 AM on my typewriter, three more to go later on today.

I already feel exhausted, but I need to write at least two thousand words per day for this to be a REAL novel by the 30th.

Are you guys going for the best prose possible, or shoehorning in the beauty later on? I can't tell what will be an effective method. But I think editing as I go will be inevitable.

>> No.16691656

>>16691550
I left the discord though.

>> No.16691703

>>16691550
Not me of course, you're talking about everyone else

>> No.16691824

How do I not edit as I go?

>> No.16691892

>>16691824
Just let it all out of you and don't look at what you've written, always think about the next sentence. Don't read what you have.

>> No.16691901

>>16691550
name 1

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>>16691703
he's talk about me, i just know it. he's out to get me

>> No.16692063

>>16689606
Writing 50K words isnt hard.
It's using those 50K words to make sense of it all and end up with a coherent story.
It's only 1666 words per day but you have to make every word count.

>> No.16692166

>>16691656
giap?
Nigger

>> No.16692189

>>16688387
Just use it as a motivational excuse. Don’t sign up to their website or anything but try your best to create something in that time.

>> No.16692192

>>16688697
A 50k word novella sounds... pretty based.

>> No.16692198

Is this a good idea to do in my second year of uni amid being swamped with schoolwork?

>> No.16692218

>>16692198
Worked fine for me last year.

>> No.16692229

Yup, already storyboarding right now. Is that allowed, or do I have to wait until tomorrow?

>> No.16692236

>>16692198
You want the experience of doing this now, not later. You don't want to be out of Uni and doing this as you desperately search for a job and a roof over your head.

>> No.16692239

>>16692236
Ha, good point.

>> No.16692307

For those worrying about editing as you go:
I'm a perfectionist too and I soothe that desire by printing out each chapter when it is complete and writing thoughts into the margin. If I forgot something during the writing process, then that idea probably wasn't significant. My intention is to go through and rewrite it, and the margin notes will help shape my second draft.

>> No.16692356

>>16692307
I would recommend spending an hour every other night and just going through what you wrote the previous 2 days and fixing the typos and phrasing, so when you go back you can just focus on content

>> No.16692476

>>16692307
I think the greatest boon of doing something like NaNoWriMo is so that it can kick that over-editing habit.

>> No.16692486

>>16692307
>>16692356
Is there a way to turn off the little coloured squiggles for a short while?
I always feel the need to check them as they appear.

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>>16692229
People plan weeks in advance, you're just not allowed to actually write anything

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>>16692307
why haven't I thought of this before

>> No.16693343

I'm feeling really excited to get started tomorrow. I've had this thing sitting in my head for years and only ever written disjointed scenes and given up again. This will be the first time I've ever sat down feeling ready to actually write a fucking book. Even if it turns out to be awful it'll be a big ambition of mine realised.

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>>16693343
time to give birth to a masterpiece bro

>> No.16693373

Is anyone doing Nanowrimo just for the Scrivener coupon? I'm using a throwaway plot for this year; I want Scrivener for my main project that I'm much more passionate about.

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>>16693373
Redpill me on Scrivener

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Okay fags it's November now.

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>nov 1
lets writing boys

>> No.16694147

I'm worried about my ability to do this. I tried to cheat and start early last week and only got 1k in. I kept telling myself don't worry I have time and now it's November 1st.

>> No.16694148
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I know what I want to write, but is set in a determined historical period and I didn't research enough. I also don't think I'm prepared to write it yet.
I have been postponing NaNoWriMo for 5 years now though.
Should I just write it now or should I research more and write it when I feel prepared enough?

>> No.16694152

>>16694148
WRITE NOW

>> No.16694168

>>16694148
Just write it and don't worry about getting it historically correct. When you finish it you can do your research in december/2021 and come back to the work with fresh eyes and edit it where needed.

>> No.16694181

>>16693511
>wanting a daughter
nah

>> No.16694193

I am going to write 300,000 words for November. I'll write three novels about 50K a piece, then other short stories.

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>>16694193
do it fgt

>> No.16694208

How do you structure your outlines?

>> No.16694233

>>16694208
1. Draw a tesseract.

2. Place each key point on your story along one point on the shape, moving counter clockwise, until all exterior vertices have a corresponding story beat.

3. Write character names and descriptions along the interior lines.

4. Rotate your tesseract in the fourth dimension, and you will have a pretty good first draft with some surprising characters arcs you may not have otherwise thought of.

>> No.16694259

I'm ready to do NaNoWriMo, but all I can think to write is Star Trek fanfiction that removes Discovery and Picard from canon. Should I do it bros? I'd rather have something I could sell when I'm done but the heart wants what it wants.

>> No.16694265

>>16694233
That's all? Thanks anon, I'll get to it.

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>>16694152
>>16694168
Ok

>> No.16694567

>>16694317
>finished in March
>been submitting it all summer
Sounds like ya failed then buddy. Come back when you're actually published.

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Nanowrimo is for fags. I finished my novel in March and have been submitting it all summer. Have fun with your circlejerk, losers.

>> No.16694344

>>16694317
Thank you, best of luck to you as well friend.

>> No.16694348

>>16694317
I'm hoping you succeed in getting published.

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>>16694344
>>16694348
I HOPE YOU FAAAAAIL

>> No.16694379

>>16694317
What is it about?

>> No.16694749

it's november 1st and I still don't know the plot of my novel, I just have a vague idea of the first 50 pages or so
am I doomed to fail

>> No.16695013

>>16694749
depends, are you in the discord?

>> No.16695023

>>16694749
Its november 1st and I'm already editing down.

Detourning rocks.

>> No.16695039

>>16689765
I will fill in a huge gaping hole for you

>> No.16695078

I'm going to do it, it's been about ten years since I've written anything outside of the odd rambling page here and there and my life is going quite wrong so I should just throw myself into this.

My only idea at the moment is some Valis esque story about a NEET who becomes convinced God is communicating to him a desire to destroy a newly installed 5G tower in town.

>> No.16695108

there's gonna be domestic abuse, defenestration, driving around in weird places for no conceivable reason, paranoid conspiracy theories, cults, kidnappings, a cross between a manifesto and self-help book

>> No.16695169

yeah yeah go write that disaffected loser who finds himself in strange situations story like it's the freshest thing since sliced bread

>> No.16695175

>>16689508
What movie is this?

>> No.16695508

>>16695169
Kek

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>>16695169
Hey mine is about a disaffected GIRL in strange situations.

>> No.16695961

>>16690187
>>16688709
How did this pregnant Anne Frank maymay start? A quick rudown please.

>> No.16695993

>>16695078
This is only good if the tower destruction is a protracted quest with police interference, arrest, lawsuits etc. while the hero doggedly continues with fresh and devious methods.

>> No.16696504

Is there any purpose to these threads when we have the discord going?

>> No.16696544

>>16696504
This is more organised than that mess.
It's literally just meme posting on the discord.

>> No.16696553

>>16696544
Bro if you want to talk about writing we have plenty dedicated to that. We have both VC and text chat critique groups and we have a writing talk server. But yeah, niggas are gonna shitpost in general. Shock.

>> No.16696583

>never written anything before
>start Nanowrimo
>hands are fucked

Is this normal for 'writers', or do I have raynauds or some shit?

>> No.16696647

>>16696544
No one on /lit/ ever talks about writing in any substantial way.

>> No.16696657

>>16696583
Add some anti-inflammatory foods like turmeric to your diet and stay hydrated

>> No.16696675

>>16687862
disgusting fetish

>> No.16696687

>>16691646
you have to write 1,666 words on the first day

>> No.16696696

>>16693373
cant you just cheat the system for this coupon

>> No.16696703

>>16694148
you'll never write it

>> No.16696729

>>16696675
jew

>> No.16696890

I wrote 530 words in the morning. Gonna do another 1-1.5k tonight.

>> No.16696896

>>16694317
Nanowrimo is about making yourself a good writer, not writing a good novel. Have fun with someone reading more than a page of your one pump, chump.

>> No.16696920

>>16694148
Start writing motherfucker. Now! Do it now anon.
Although you'll cry like a bitch, keep on writing.

>> No.16696971

>>16687934
Diary of Anne Frank

>> No.16697014

>>16695175
It's a show on Netflix called "You". It's good.

>> No.16697033

>>16697014
>netflix
So I'm guessing the baby is black?

>> No.16697040

>>16697033
Nah. There's only one black character I think. It's actually kind of lit

>> No.16697056

>>16687855
Oh shoot, anons! I'm already late. And I have so much more on my plate. Maybe I just throw in the towel? Hopefully you won't look down on me and scowl, NaNoWriMo anon and other anonfrens

>> No.16697065

How the fuck are you guys writing? I'm a student, as much as I like to read and write short stories I don't think I have time for this shit.

>> No.16697071

>>16697065
Between studenting, wageslaving, and media binging, I don't have ti--, wait, I can drop out. 50K here I come!

>> No.16697081

>>16697065
study less and learn to get by with scrips, cheating and such lel
not saying you should do it, just how i do it

>> No.16697108

>>16697065
We are going into another month long lockdown next week, so in preparation I got laid off again.
I have nothing but time to write.

I haven't written shit though.

>> No.16697174

>>16694193
do it
activate mania
activate serotonin syndrome
OD on caffeine and SSRIs and don't look back
ascend

>> No.16697233

Just wrote 2000 words after having not written anything in years. feeling pretty confident, no nut november combined with nanowrimo better work

>> No.16697274

>>16689606
it depends on the way you write. Many people write with intention to just get those 50k words on paper, no matter the quality, as long as the paragraphs make sense more or less. You just need to get the story written. Then this will serve as the good base for rewrites and shit.

>> No.16697285

>>16689606
Although the writing is time dense, the editing/revising portion is more skill dense. Anyone can theoretically write 50k words, not everyone has the ability to structure and edit these words into something worth reading.

>> No.16697368

>>16695961
Browse mu

>> No.16697409

>>16697065
I'm a student too, I spend like 35 hours a week on college + about 10 hours on reading outside the mandatory reading
that leaves plenty of time for writing as long as I get my shit together and stop procrastinating

>> No.16697531

>>16697040
I preferred season 1.

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Normally i dont care much for wheatfield propaganda, but seeing pregnant white girls stirs something primordial within me

>> No.16697665

>>16697591
What is wheatfield propaganda?

>> No.16697684

How long does hammering out an adequate amount for NaNoWriMo (1500-2000 words/day) take you guys?

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>>16697665
agricultural propaganda

>> No.16697753

>>16697684
A few hours on a good day. All day long when I have the discord open.

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>>16697665
Leftards are afraid of beautiful women in natural settings because muh waycism.

>> No.16697820

>>16697731
This is unironically peak comfy, cant see why anyone would be against it

>> No.16697832

>>16697731
Now this is nice, but that's because it's Tuscan and cypresses. You can leave your tall wheats to T. May.

>> No.16697993

You lads believe in writing outlines?

>> No.16698131

>>16697993
Absolutely. You never get lost and you can control how satisfying your plot is

>> No.16698217

>>16697684
It took me all afternoon and evening with a lot of nervous cigarette breaks and interruptions from other people to get 2500 words today. I'm hoping as I get more comfy with it it'll flow easier because I can't treat every day like a sunday. Feeling stoked about actually starting it though.

>> No.16698220

>>16698217
suck my dick, faggot

>> No.16698221

>>16698220
Yeah sure why not

>> No.16698223

>>16698221
thanks senpai i really appreciate it

>> No.16698320

>>16698220
>>16698221
>>16698223

Hey I came here for pregposting, not for homoeroticism

>> No.16698331
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>>16698320
i dont have preggers, sorry

>> No.16698457

I swear i am too autistic to write.

>> No.16698574

>>16697759
Thats picture is racist

>> No.16698707
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16698707

11045 words from scratch.

I had an outline. It is 6000 words.

Can you tell I have been excited to do this?

>> No.16698721

>>16698707
hell yeah dude

>> No.16698901

I found myself looking at escorts near me today on the internet

>> No.16698904

>>16698707
daaaaaaaaaaamn

>> No.16698906

>>16698901
great opening line! only 1655 words to go

>> No.16698916

>>16698901
Did they help you write?

>> No.16698956

>write out the first scene I expected to get through today
>it's half as long as I expected it to be
AAHH

>> No.16698960

>>16698956
mite b a good thing tho

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Don't forget to stretch, anons

>> No.16699091

>>16699045
i'll stretch you out ;)

>> No.16699100

>>16699045
Does Yoga make any sense for a man?

>> No.16699202

>tfw composing in my catacomb
Finna get another foamy cold cranium from the ossuary

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>>16699202

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Tfw I failed nonut November for the third time this year

>> No.16699282

>>16699266
Locktober made it easy, lol.

>> No.16699300

really enjoying this nanonumo crossover

>> No.16699317

>>16699045
do yoga dungeons smell?

>> No.16699340

>>16697033
nah but the male lead is jewish in a way that is more in your face than usual

>> No.16699627

Post ur wordcounts.

For me, its 3000k on the first day.

>> No.16699648

>>16699627
I almost considered outlining today

>> No.16699672

>>16699648
Good work, keep it up! Sincerely, any effort you make is immeasurably better than nothing.

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I can't imagine anyone who has lived with a pregnant woman posting preggo pics unless it is their crotchfruit.

>> No.16699683

>>16699627

Holy fuck 3 million words? Teach me your ways.

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>>16699683
I'm retarded

>> No.16699833

saw someone pointing this out in a thread shitting on a youtuber, but is "Subtleties lie" really the wrong tense?

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>>16699713

>> No.16700771

>>16698906
Literally stfu insufferable retard

>> No.16700777

>>16700771
u mad

>> No.16700782

>>16699833
No, well it depends on what else the sentence was I suppose. But you could say "the subtleties lie in so and so etc", that would be correct.

>> No.16700785

>>16700777
The fact you're watching this thread and not writing means you're retarded

>> No.16700860

>>16700785
your concern is noted

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>>16687855
I know that this was supposed to be a race, but let's just say that I was inspired a week ago. So I'm racing against myself.

27,000 words so far. I've never felt more confident about a book idea.

>> No.16701807

>>16701051
Congrats! Keep it up.

>> No.16702012

>>16699881
Explain, please

>> No.16702033
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>>16687855
>go to the webstie
>top post is "This thread is meant to be a gathering place for people from 4chan’s Literature board. Discuss your ideas, talk about the progress of your project, complain about how far behind you are. Be respectful of the NNWM forum rules so they don’t kick us out; we can act a fool back on /lit/ and in the Discord"
Guys...

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Anyone here actually made any money from self-publishing?

>> No.16702666

>>16702591
Just from some KDP erotica.

>> No.16703603
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16703603

How do I outline a novel and pad scenes to reach 50-80k words? Every chapter should be like 2-3k words, right?

I've written like 5k into a 'novel' before, and it was basically a screenplay with some internal thoughts from the MC.

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I’m already a chapter and half in. Let’s go, boys.

>> No.16704120

>>16687855
50k words isn't very much

>> No.16704125

>>16691550
There are a lot of schizos online

>> No.16704164

>>16704125
And discord is for faggotry

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>>16704164
Can't really argue with that one.

>> No.16704300

>>16687855
>50,000 word book in 30 days
it took me 3 months to write 40k and im still not finish. sadfrog.jpg

>> No.16704302

>>16704300
Very few of these are good and the thing is just an exercise of getting people into the habit of writing.

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Just finished day 2. Keeping on pace, hopefully will get a lead tomorrow. Writing has been super smooth for me so far this year.


>>16703603
Chapters don't have to be 2-3k each, you can write them shorter to expect to fill them in later. I usually write a "wireframe" of chapters where I could go back and in editing add another thousand or so of filler/exposition. To me, the most important part of this is to get the plot moving in a cohearant diretion, flowery prose can wait for later.

>>16704302
This. I haven't finished nano yet in 4 years, but it succeeds in getting me off my ass and think about writing every year. Writing anything is better than writing the usual 0 words per month.

>> No.16705283

Why is the site so FUCKING pozzed and Orwellian?
Why did I think it wouldn't be after how bad it already was five years ago last time I wrote something?
Where can I find the "fuck trannies and jannies" alternative website with the same tracking features and 100% less me being told I have a magical advantage in "access to resources" for being white?
>>16702666
Then lastly and most importantly, what steps did you (or anyone else with this experience) take to get traction with your e-books? Do you advertise or have a site? Do I need to invest a lot in advertisement? Do I actually need to build an email list and interact with people?
Will I make more money short and long term if I can just get accepted by a publisher?
And should I get someone to record an audiobook of it? Does anyone get romance/erotica ebooks?
I want money!

>> No.16705297

>>16705283
take your meds

>> No.16705313

>>16705297
Do multivitamins count?

>> No.16705323

>>16705313
if your previous post is anything to go by, your issues are deeper than that

>> No.16705363

>>16705323
If you think anyone will take your seriously for defending Tumblr identity politics on 4chan, the issues are your own.

>> No.16706488

>>16705283
Good lord this dickless faggot.

>> No.16707689

>>16695961

/his/

>> No.16709282

>>16705363
>laughing at schizophrenic obsessions means that we're aligned with your mental ghosts
that's right anon
everyone around you is out to get you
act first
do what you have to anon
if its not them its you

>> No.16710700

Saving this trash thread from the trash.

>> No.16710702

did everyone fuck off to discord or what

>> No.16710712

>>16710702
Everybody already gave up.

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>>16710702
Does it seem slow?
I can’t believe people still watch election coverage.

>> No.16710785

I've started but I'm only like 600 words in.

>> No.16710830

>name of writing contest is the most insufferable acronym imaginable
>contest is "cram as may words in a Word file as you can"
>literature

Not only should these threads be banned, so should everyone in them.

>> No.16710875

>>16710830
Yes it's corny and mostly produces garbage, but like anything it's how you approach it. For some it's just about producing good writing habits.

>> No.16711453

>>16710830
Including yourself ?

>> No.16712195

>>16688709
j...jeff?