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How's that novel coming along, /lit/?

>> No.21545643

>>21545639
i neither read nor write

>> No.21545644

>>21545639
I have the Title and the Chapters but that is about it

>> No.21545651

>>21545639
i wrote a full sentence yesterday.
huge progress considering prior to that i haven't wrote anything in 4 months.

>> No.21545653

>>21545639
It's in the trash. No one reads novels. I'm making a manga now.

>> No.21545661

>>21545639
Every time I come up with a decent concept I realize it's garbage a couple of hours later. What's a good story that hasn't been written /lit/? I'm kinda thinking something along the lines of The Old Man And The Sea or Moby Dick, but that's been done already. Maybe something like a Tolstoy novel set in the future, I don't know, help a nigga out here.

>> No.21545665

3 tries so far. Will be writing for a while then stop for a while then the story thread burns out completely. No idea how these people in their twenties are able to write a full novel and stay on track.

>> No.21545680

>>21545661
>>21545661
You just have to say fuck all that and not give a damn. Fuck the prose, fuck the poetics and just write. You are not here to make yourself look like a genius. Don't care about how clever or articulate it is.

>> No.21545685

>>21545639
Why are we on a plane?

>> No.21545688

>>21545685
Because how else would we fly?

>> No.21545690

>>21545661
>Tolstoy novel set in the future
what does this even mean? what is a "Tolstoy novel"?

>> No.21545703

>>21545665
>how these people in their twenties are able to write a full novel and stay on track.

i just shave my legs and take pictures of myself in womens underwear every other weekend.

>> No.21545714

>>21545639
I have an outline and make notes for a new novel but I don’t know. Novel writing doesn’t seem as important to me now in my mid-twenties as it did when I was in my teens.

>> No.21545724
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>>21545639
>5+ years
>barely 20k
it's going great

>> No.21545731

Have two weeks to finish it so I can send it to the competition. 20k words more or less. I'm feeling pretty confident desu

>> No.21545741

>>21545639
Just doing research at the moment. But I will make up half of it anyway.

>> No.21546091

>>21545639
I'm more of a short stories kind of lad, anon. Not that I'm any good at them nor do I produce them frequently, but I get more hope out of them than if I embarked on putting together a novel. Just need to find a writing competition in this country.

>> No.21546097

>>21545643
and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence

>> No.21546107

>>21545639
I have a screenplay I gave up on that I may start up on again. I moved onto writing short stories and smut
t. tranny faggot

>> No.21546110

>>21545643
most honest /lit/ user

>> No.21546135

>>21545690
Yeah that was vague, I ment something like a deep introspection into different characters as a base for story.

>> No.21546139

>>21545680
I suppose this is it, it's scary as fuck to write like this though. When there's no shield between you and the rest of the world.

>> No.21546142

>>21545639
I don't need any help publicizing my novel because I'm going to send the manuscript to random academics throughout europe and america signed "FC"

>> No.21546203

>>21546142
I’m doing that too but only to L’Academe as RC

>> No.21546292

>>21545639
I'm about 500k words in. It will be probably be finished this year.

>> No.21546340

>>21545639
Almost 20k words. I think I'm the editor of this story, not the writer, I can't write if I force myself to come up with something. Sometimes I find something in my head and I just write it down, I give it shape. It's a pleasant experience.

>> No.21546363

Far too well. It has eclipsed not only all art and entertainment but is getting religion and science to pull up their skirts too. I must bastardize and soon

>> No.21546370

>>21545639
what travel? I don't have enough money for that,for books only

>> No.21546417

>>21545639
It's done, but I've had a hard look and it's not that good. Possibly revisable

>> No.21546486
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21546486

I wrote a 50k word outline in like a week, then stopped working on the novel and haven't touched it in 4 months. It might be over for me.

>> No.21546503

>>21545639
60 pages in, originally i was going for 100 pages, but at present I think it could be closer to 150

>> No.21546520

>>21546142
Why FC?

>> No.21546551

>>21546520
stands for "faggy creep"

>> No.21546582

>>21546551
based

>> No.21547314

>>21546520
That's what the Unabomber signed his manifesto. It stood for Fluttershy Clopper

>> No.21547409

>>21545643

The purest way forward, to be sure.

>> No.21547460

>>21545639
Just finished chapter 6. 6 more to go!

>> No.21547464

I am incapable of writing a "story book"...
whenever I attempt to write a story, all that I can produce are either enigmatic allegories as limerick, or idiotic stream of consciousness cliché nothings.

English as a contemporary literary language is totally exhausted and suitable only for Tweets, YouTube comments, Twitch chat spam, ChatGPT essays and news articles, and international professional use. Perhaps God is dulling the creative potential of the English language as adequate compensation for its contemporary worldliness... Any forward thinking writer worth their salt will be writing in some collage of World English including the Pidgin and. Creoles.

>> No.21547474

>>21545639
Suffering getting across the finish line with cover art + design. After that it's just formatting and proofreading then I'm done.

>> No.21547568

>>21545639
Okay.
I can’t decide if one of my characters around the 1860s should make money from mining or the homestead act.

>> No.21547573

>>21545731
What competition?