So anons how's the book/novel that your making going along?

[Anonymous No.18415713]

[Anonymous No.18415726]

>>18415713
Some nigger stole my idea of slave rape on plantations and made a movie about it. I don't know What to do now.

[Anonymous No.18415760]

>>18415713

If you didn't get a novel done in the last 15 months or so with a global pandemic shutting stuff down, it's probably not going to happen.

[Anonymous No.18415773]

>>18415713
A lot slower than originally thought.

[Anonymous No.18415781]

>>18415713
Worried about the weird plot. The whole thing reads like a 2010 Obama is a lizardperson schizopost. The idea started off as a guy facing off against a bunch of wacky assassins and kind of went insane from there and now involves a nuclear holocaust Satanic sacrifice and hidden continents and spirits and esoteric street gangs and shit.

[Anonymous No.18415785]

i just want to write literary fiction but i dont know how to write good prose

so probably never

[Anonymous No.18415796]

>>18415781
you can definitely write a good book with that plot, make it interesting.

[Anonymous No.18415808]

>>18415713
Although the worldbuilding and basic plot of my fantasy series is sketched out, it’s become apparent that I have no practice writing. So I’m writing a short science fiction story right now, thought of this really interesting philosophical debate involving aliens and whatnot that I think hasn’t really been explored yet. If at all. Which sounds crazy because sci-fi is such a massive genre and yet I’m unable to find anyone who’s thought of this before.
Dunno how long it’ll be, maybe forty pages? Half that? Half of half of that? Who knows. My only goal is that I share it with anons here and someone enjoys it. Maybe I could get in published in one of the /lit/izen collections I see sometimes made here

[Anonymous No.18415809]

>>18415796
>make it interesting
Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.18415828]

>>18415808
Oh. I also got a job working underway for the department of navy, I’m thinking of keeping a diary and then giving that shit a light coating of sci-fi, it could be the first science fiction novel to follow the extremely dull and pointless life of a grunt on a starship. I can combine it with what I got out of my worthless marine biology degree and make some realistic ayys as well

[Anonymous No.18415842]

>>18415828
Yea anon what if you see a UAP lol. Could give you some stuff to right about in your story

[Anonymous No.18415864]

>>18415713
I just wrote a little more of my first draft. It's about a sinful man who is able to change his life through the power of faith in Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.18415871]

>>18415864
based and Christpilled

[Anonymous No.18415875]

>>18415842
I actually already have. When I was a cadet on watch I saw a red flare shoot up into the sky around twilight. Textbook distress signal, and we were in the middle of the Atlantic. Ran and told the mate on watch, he didn’t believe me. Then two seniors came by and claimed to have seen it too. The mate said to keep an eye out for another, but because there was nothing on the radars and there wasn’t any SARTs or distress messages (aside from the fucking flare), he decided it wasn’t worth checking out.
So I either saw a UAP or the last light of a certified dead man.

[Anonymous No.18415887]

>>18415875
where was this? could be that maybe someone fell out of a boat and had a flare on them?

[Anonymous No.18415896]

>>18415864
Best of luck anoon

[Anonymous No.18415901]

>>18415713
>have really intresting idea for a bok
>try to write it
>my writing is shit
>stop writing for 6 months

[Anonymous No.18415910]

>>18415887
A maritime academy training ship. We were way too far out for any small boat, nothing on our radar or AIS or ECDIS for dozens of miles. And nobody fell off our ship, we muster twice a day, as do most crews

[Anonymous No.18415928]

>>18415910
Hmmm what if it was some classified shit going on I mean I'm sure it could've been military stuff but maybe special operations? I don't know just coming up with ideas

[Anonymous No.18415932]

>>18415901
>>18415773
>>18415785
everyone sucks at prose at first.
if you can focus on reading a book, you can write one.
it just takes practice and a dedication to your future self. practice daily if possible, but in spurts if not (like lock yourself away for two or three days)
my first stories sucked, my first novel sucked, but I persevered.
~ a voice of experience

[Anonymous No.18415946]

>>18415932
thanks anon. i know and believe all of this, but need to be reminded of it sometimes.

[Anonymous No.18415953]

>>18415928
I dunno, there are ships that can fuck with radar, but a distress signal is a distress signal

[Anonymous No.18415955]

>>18415946
my pleasure.
was just recalling when I was young, I used to suck at dialog (everyone talked like me) so I would walk around with a tape recorder (oldfag here) and write out the transcripts of dozens of pieces of conversations of people walking past... learned a helluva lot

[Anonymous No.18415960]

>>18415713
I just started writing one so I'm taking baby steps by not putting more than an hour or 500 words a day, whatever comes first. I've tried to write before but I usually stopped because of the awful prose as I am an ESL so but this time I decided that I'll just write however I can and everything else will be taken care of in editing. I can't really drag out scenes by making them descriptive yet so I don't think I'll be able to write a full fledged novel but I can get about 50 or so pages.

[Anonymous No.18415978]

>>18415713
I'm writing a novel of a doomer that has mental problems, but in end he gets better. The whole book is about philosophy, theology, literature and mental conditions.

[Anonymous No.18415987]

>>18415978
>gets better
Wouldn’t this classify as fantasy?

[Anonymous No.18416005]

>>18415987
He will go through a long healing process. It won't be like magic.

[Anonymous No.18416028]

>>18415713
I don’t know if the thing I’m writing will turn into a novel, a short story, or a novelette, but I’m happy with what I wrote today which I can’t always say.

[Anonymous No.18416045]

>>18415946
You can do it bro, just takes practice and dedication.
>>18415960
As long as you can get a full story down that’ll be great practice. Good luck ESL bro, I admire your versatility.
>>18415978
>>18415864
Based theological anons.

[Anonymous No.18416231]

>>18415713
might start tomorrow morning

[Anonymous No.18416242]

>>18415713
I plan on finishing the first draft by the end of the next month.

>>18415760
True. It was being stuck with my annoying parents for almost two years that made me realize I was wasting my time and finally concentrate on a long-term project.