"ARC" editionPrevious: >>25311756/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.
>snuck ten copies of my self published memoirs into book store>come back week later>all gone>still havent been paid
>>25319941They threw them away, bro.
>>25319941Fake and gay and if real even more gay
>>25319941Back in the days of independent stores you could almost do this. Books like Ishmael got popular in some new agey bookstores and spread by word of mouth. The guy just made a deal with them to carry his books, it's literally the boomer "walk up to them and shake their hand". Whole ecosystem is dead after the 90s though so no more of that.
Did your first novel's first review invoke, compare the book to, and even assert its superiority over the works of such authors as Thomas Mann, Susan Sontag, James Joyce, Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, Anton Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and B.S. Johnson? Asking for a friend.
>>25320091I think the equivalent now is to KDP self-publish, purchase as many author copies as you can afford, and wander your area finding as many of those free library cabinets as you can to stuff 'em into
Another fucking retard in my writers group submitted an AI story. >One. Two. Three. As if something something hard something. >One. Two. The kind of softness something something. It was this rhythm ad nauseum. I just kept circling things and writing "this sounds like AI."
>>25320418why's he still in your group if he's doing that
>>25320440He's new. Our writers group has been getting these new fuckheads who show up and submit their AI writing for critique as their own and contribute fuck all to anyone else's work. And the thing is, as obvious as it may be to me, I don't think I can actually prove it's AI. The best I think I can do is find an AI narrated video on TikTok, show it to him and say, "why did you write your story in this exact same style?"
It seems my literary work is not literature and thus off-topic (at least according to our lovely mods)
>>25320481That em-dash is suspicious. >>25320455I wonder if anybody intentionally, by hand, has ever written a literary work that sounds as if it had been written by AI. I wouldn't understand why such a writing style would emerge, but it is a possibility.
>>25320481you didn't get an automatic ban? you're lucky
>>25320486It exists. It was the "Batman script written by AI" which was in fact written by a human. >Batman stands next to his Batmobile and his BatComputer. He's sometimes Bruce Wayne and sometimes Batman. Alltimes orphan.
>>25320486I love em-dashes—I shall not curtail their use
>>25320496There's a reason that kind of literary style has never caught on.>>25320500You are an idiot; a FOOL!
>reread a book i self published years ago>holy shit this book is complete utter garbage
Only 500 words today, but also did some editing/revising, so some words got removed
do you ever find yourself crying over stories or scenes you think of
>>25320637Frequently
>>25320525Your words—insulting as they are—mean little to me. My em-dashing—using that wonderful horizontal line—shall continue.
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>>25320637No because I'm not a bitch but a scene where the MC dies in bed overnight holding hands with his wife, and his much longer-lived wife finds out about it in the morning then immediately howls out of character bitch tears makes me a little emotional.It's not even a part of the main story, it's an epilogue, so it's a real gut punch that doesn't need to exist, but it thematically follows with the rest of the story.
Critique would be appreciated because I don't want to be a bad writer.Following from >>25311448It is done. Only iron is left. Not the kind your weapons are made of, but the kind you smell in the air, the kind you taste on your lips. The kind that comes from the blood pooling at your feet. The dance is finished, and you bathe in the horror of your victory. A severed hand, the limb hanging from a tendon, unzipped skin exposing the bare muscle of the dead man who will forever follow in your dreams. It matters little. The form you practiced as a boy on straw dummies in your village has not prepared you for the desecration of your fellow human, but there is no time to contemplate it. Your clansmen will only know that you danced, and you lived. Years of training under a whip and several pounds of iron have been spent on making you someone who the clan cannot afford to be expendable. Which makes you acutely aware what little, precious adrenaline you have left in your body is soon going to burn away. Every wasted moment is exhausting a supply of energy that you are quite literally bleeding by the second. You’ve hit the climax of your exhaustion, and you need to run again, soon. Just like you practiced since you were a boy. Your rattling hands reach to dig out his weapon buried under a patch of red-stained sand and vomit. You need to know where he came from. You hurriedly examine it. A curved iron blade. Polished, untouched by rust, and a tempered edge. You are certain it’s not mountain iron. A long, stained and coated wood shaft. Unmistakably Sparwood. He’s from the west, and that’s all you can tell. If you can make it home, the Mastersmith will know better. Your hands find the strength to throw it towards your basket pack in the valley and quickly push the corpse over to take his own pack off, scattering the bits and pieces on the ground with what little care your shaking hands can afford. Your head hangs low and you heave breaths in and out. You quickly grab a dense black rock, a firesteel, and a fruit you throw down with the weapon, dismissing the rest. The growing red patch staining your tunic at the waist is quickly addressed with a sharp pull of your belt, tightening your tunic around the wound and eliciting an involuntary scream and a welling of tears in your eyes. You stutter to the slope and slide down the valley and return you to your dropped cargo. The firesteel and the rock are thrown into the pack, and you kneel down to sift through the sand, looking for something. You need it to be there. It must be here. Somewhere. Your eyes dart back and forth like a rabid animal until you see it.Second-person perspective might be scrapped but it's easier for me to write scenes like this for now.Thoughts?
500 words today. I might have figured out the inciting incident of the chapter. Now to think of the complication and climax.
>>25320500normies have been trained by chatgpt to use em dashes so they are no longer an indicator of AI. now you see them everywhere, in places where it's not plausible that people would be using chatgpt
How's everyone doing tonight?
>>25320711I am only going to say that dumping a gigantic block of text as one paragraph is very, very bad. Splitting it all into one line is also very bad.There's nothing to say about 2nd person because it's a stylistic choice and asking critique on subjective shit is gay and retarded. Most people will hate this though.I think your writing is wordy and melodramatic but I'm fairly sure that's the intent. It's not bad, but I'll warn you right away that not a whole lot of people will be able to stomach this style and format.
>>25320715Is that... Is that an EM DASH? AAAAAAAAAAAAA I'M GOING INSANE THE MACHINE ELVES IN MY BRAIN OH THE INEVITABLE HORROR OF ROKO'S BASILISK AAAAAAAAAAAA SAVE ME LOVECRAFT'S CAT!
