"Fuck AI slop, embrace Photoshop slop" editionPrevious: >>25290066/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.>Beginner guides on writing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk >Intermediate guides on writing:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48654.Storyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3097766-borges-on-writinghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23056.Image_Music_Text>Advanced guide on writing:Just do it.Theme: https://youtu.be/P2jn_lxrrPg?si=j0eMmv0DdNr-jV0Z
>no new thread before old one dies/wg/ is dead.
>>25301232You people shouldn't let me make the new threads, I only ever do it late and I usually shill something.
Remember to report this self-advertising spamming fag and don't post in his threads. He's spamming this thread to advertise his book.
>>25301246Which book might that be?
>>25301215 He fellow writers. I made that sandbox thread a few days back about the pruning being the end of the world for in thread characters. Well the thread got got. 404. Gone. But the characters made it out in time. And they live on below. If you invested in creating your character there, in the prunned thread, your character awaits. Mr Changchang Zhang, your chariot awaits. If not, then don't worry. Everyone dies in the end. >>>/qst/6416839>>>/qst/6416839
So a question to commercial, anons: what's the best, or at least a good one, structure for a first chapter? I've seen people say you need to start in medias res, use little exposition, and throw the reader right into the action, etc. One thing I've noticed myself is that the first chapter tends to be a taste of what the book is about, so, for example, if you're writing a crime story, then you need a detective and a body right at the start.
>>25301358I always just put my ending right at the beginning of the book. So then the reader is captured and they read the rest thinking that something else is going to happen but no, by the time they realize it, it’s too late. They’re already 2/3 through and they have to finish because I’m such a good writer they can’t put it down.
>>25301393>flips to the last pagesHeh, get raped.
Consumptive Cur is a horrendous title. It's both clunky to say and generally nonsensical.Imagine saying to a friend, "Hey, have you read 'Consumptive Cur?'" and not having the conversation end with them losing your number.
it appears that dark triad is causing some seethe
>>25301418It's the book's marketing that's causing the seethe, the book itself is inoffensive aside from being mediocre at best
>>25301409It makes even less sense when you realize the book is actually about production and the main character is named "Kitty."
>>25301497>mediocre at bestSo... leagues above anything else posted here?
>>25301508People here tend to not shill as shamelessly as you.
>>25301510That's not true in the slightest. There's always at least one, from F Gadner to Boor the bore, to many more in the future.
>>25301508No, most of anything is mediocre, you're just another in the mediocre majority
>>25301510he is not shilling, he is just excited about his book. there is nothing wrong with that. if you ever wrote a masterpiece yourself, you would understand.
Looks like Maid in Four Parts has made the best ad we've ever seen here. Has anybody read it yet?
>>25301630I don't like how many words you (the author and maker of that ad) like to cram into spaces meant to be carried by visuals. That ad is an ugly block of text. Why do I need to know that I can click it to learn more? I'm not a fucking retard. Is the writing in your book like this, too? Do you feel the need to cram in all the information you can into the text, overexplain, and underwhelm?Also 4chan ads are a money sink since nobody smart enough to read is dumb enough not to use adblock on this porn website.
>There is a $25 fee when submitting a book for Publishers Weekly review consideration.Imagine having the gall to advertise here with a paid """review"""
>>25301627>isn't shilling>advertises and talks it up constantlyno, that's shilling. have a spinewhat kind of person sucks up to a literally who
Usually I draw comics in /ic/ but I decided to venture myself in making a novel. I never managed to write a novel longer than 20 pages so this will be quite a chalenge lol. I may use this as a base for a future comic like I did before btwhttps://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73759/no-place-for-idealists/chapter/1331723/the-dying-empire
Is my protagonist a convincing maniac?
>>25301710In a similar boat to you. Used to write comics but paying for art and working with artist got super expensive.
Wtf sound do bullets make when they fly by?
>>25301758anon there are literally terabytes of combat footage on youtube and other sites
>>25301762Yeah but I need the onomatopoeia...
>>25301712>uses turn signalsno
>>25301758>>25301763Snap. Or crack. Fwip or bzz if subsonic.
>>25301780I think I'm just settling for "three bullets whiz by". It's sad, and pathetic, but it's all I got for now.
>>25301661it was probably created by AI
>>25301744>working with artist got super expensive.hasn't that problem been solved by AI?
>>25301758they go kajoom and splick splack
>>25301684we try to support our writers here
>>25301795I mean is the specific use of an onomatopoeia important in your context? bullets can fly, sing, whistle, blow past, cleave the air, trace a path, etc.
>>25301826Thanks, I can use this later>>25301834It's a screenplay, so I was trying to get the sound effect right. But then I realized it doesn't really fucking matter that much.
Your book a shit
>>25301934>>25301934You can have it.https://litter.catbox.moe/aekfrrbh9vqbcjzd.pdf
>>25301934imagine if you had to book a shit whenever you had to do your daily necessities. this is kind of what boarding school was like
>the female characters need significantly more interiorityWHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?
>>25302049They're noticeably less deep than the male ones
>>25302049It means if female characters are more competent than males, you made feminist yass queen shitslop.
>>25302067Only after posting that I realized it said interiority and not inferiority.
Did 1100 words today.
>>25302064So... real life?
>>25302067But we love Victoria here
>>25302071Just do what I do: write every single character as male and then go back and select some at random and make them female but don't change anything else
>>25301418it's always the same, whenever something big drops, there's first astonishment and then seething. you all remember when f. gardner unveiled his CoC
I keep writing myself into corners.>have MC return to his homeland to face trial>need him to continue his journey>his crime is sorta low key but still significant>decide to have him transported to a different place for "not technically prison" and then make an escape because someone decides to kill him instead of letting him escape>now realize that MC's honour would have him go to prison anyway>have to rewrite the trial just to have have exile be his punishment>but that just too conveniently fits his plans anyway>so now have to decide on something different, like getting a prison breakHaving an MC with flaws and past crimes but also an incredible sense of honour sucks.
>>25302098Honestly, this year seems somewhat interesting in the sense that there’s a lot of anons publishing their own work in a short time span, Between Dark Triad, A Maid in Four Parts, Sinner’s Descent and Consumptive Cur, there’s been alot of known /lit/-adjacent releases this year. Frankly, it’s nice to see some anons put their money where their mouth is and actually produce something. I’d say all of those works have more artistic merit than anything F Gardner put out, since he was just using /pol/-pandering as a mask for poor writing.
>>25302186I need to stop writing erotica and write something worthwhile so I can join the published anons.
>>25302186>all shit
>>25301824I'd rather not. Working with an artist for proper paneling is still superior right now
>>25302213Who do you think is getting published these days?Just write the next "I walked into an alternate dimension where my childhood friend has a massive dick and was rich and abusive instead of just a nice guy."
>>25302237>500-5000 USD - Get something I might be happy with, people will love you for excepting your 4th revision despite the artist not really understanding what you are asking for.>Free - Completely custom and instantaneous, people will hate you for using it.
>>25301215>same AI slop image againfuck off
I'd surely make a living off my writing if I only managed to make myself write. Surely.
>>25302246Yeah, if I could write fem porn I'd be doing it. Instead here I am liking incest.I should just try to warn regular genre.
>>25302291write NTR
>>25302291>if I could write fem porn>Instead here I am liking incest.You're not gonna believe this.
>>25302098it was an even bigger deal when honor levy unveiled hers. nobody had suspected what she'd been carefully hiding all that time down her pants, but finally she must have gotten the okay from her publisher. they were like, ok, you can let it out now, girl. and bam! she just slammed that big monster onto the table like that. like, eat that, gardner. everybody was like whoa! whoa, honor! there was immediate seething, but most people were just like "wow..." "wow!" and that was the day, if you all remember, when she became our queen.
>>25302277Checked and felt
>>25302449>honor levyhad no idea who this was, googled her, found out she grew up rich in LA, first book is titled "My First Book" and she's known for her "chronically online prose."Truly vomitous stuff.
>>25302449Is having a dick a fantasy of yours?
