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1133545 No.1133545 [Reply] [Original]

I had a bet that I could write a novel in a week.

It has to be publishable. That is the only stipulation. The only real way to prove this is actually get it published.

Any advice? Any questions? Anything?

>> No.1133556

it's gonna have to be over 50,000 words or there abouts, most novels need several edits to be publishable, so yeah.

you lost the bet

>> No.1133569

>>1133556

Want to bet on it?

It's more than 40,000 in the UK, by the way.

>> No.1133570

Espresso + polyphasic sleeping = week seems like two years and encompasses four years' work. Triple that if you add crack into the mix. I know from experience.

Cut and paste all porn on a flash drive and lock it in a safe, as motivation.

Also, don't write like shit. Actually, on second thought, if publishability is the only stipulation, write UTTER SHITE. Think Twilight. It may cause you to vomit. Just stay with it, and be a literary whore. It's profitable.

Lastly, how I would go about this is spending the first four days fapping and eating cake, and tell everyone I'm coming up with a plot, freak out on the fifth day but take some sleeping pills and chill the fuck out, play video games and read on the sixth day, then write 240 pages on the last day. And likely get it published.

>> No.1133576

I write 10000 words on an average day lol. :3 I can write 25000 with espresso. It takes half as long to edit out the kinks. So I could easily meet those requirements in an average week.

>> No.1133605

I just did a test and I managed to churn out 1000 usable words in 20 minutes, but they needed a little editing. If I'm working to that timescale, it's quite possible, I should think.

>> No.1133606

>>1133569
>>1133569

yeah, i bet you can't write a novel that gets published in a week.

>> No.1133610

>>1133576

>lol
>:3

Fuck off, you imbecile.

>> No.1133615

>>1133606

How much are we talking?

Also, the week does't count edits. It's essentially that a first draft be ready in a week.

>> No.1133636

Advice: Get Write or Die - Desktop Edition.

Or just use the browser version if you're an ultimate poorfag.

>> No.1133644

>>1133615
>>1133615

you said it has to be publishable, a first-draft isn't publishable.

>> No.1133661

>>1133644

That's true.

Bet with someone over the internet is off I guess.

Real-life bet still on, though! Hooray!

>>1133636

I actually rather like this- thanks for sharing.

>> No.1133671

>>1133636
that is an awesome program - anyone have a rip of it?

>> No.1133698

It never actually occurred to me to use a writing program before. I found this though and I rather like it...

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html

>> No.1133784

>>1133671

Bump for this

>> No.1133816
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1133816

Eh, you'd have to write about 6000 worts a day. Harlan Ellison was known to write 3000 word stories in a single evening and get them published the next day.

But Harlan Ellison is easily one of the most talented Jewish men alive. You're just some guy who browses /lit/.

>> No.1133821

>>1133816
Oh, so that's why his stories are so terrible

>> No.1133826

>>1133821
>implying Harlan Ellison isn't one of the greatest science fiction writers.

inb4 lolplebeian