/lit/ - Literature

My story at RR has 250 views, 18 followers, and 2 five star ratings...after a prologue and two chapters. What the hell, nothing has even happened yet! I don't think it's going to be what they think it's going to be.

>>19398936
I'm trying, but the crippling pressure of "is it good enough?" makes progress painfully slow. I can write tons if I'm just putting it online for free, but freeze when I think I have to impress some professional who goes through thousands of manuscripts every year. And my story isn't very "mature" in style either

>>8492559

I'm writing a fantasy story, and I'm really struggling with the concept of magic. Like, how the fuck can you have credible melee fighters, when magic should rationally blow everything else out of the water? How can anyone non-magician fight a magician? Even the simplest of spells should give an overwhelming advantage. Where do you draw the limits? It's just bullshit. Unless you have the melee fighters also use magical skills, in which case it becomes bullshit against bullshit and the ideas of skill, training and strategy evaporate.

>tfw 27 years old

It can't be this hard to write one book...