Writing General: 'library' editionWelcome to /wg/, the thread for all /tg/ related writing. Whether you're plotting your campaign, trying to come up with a character backstory, or just trying to write some setting fluff, this is the place to post it. You don't even have a campaign, just an idea you want to develop? You're welcome here. While the rest of /tg/ is arguing over monstergirl mating and which way rivers are supposed to flow, we're here to help you turn your thoughts into an actual finished product.As the successor to the Storythreads, we're also open to /tg/ related fanfiction (D&D, Warhammer, Battletech, whatever). In fact, if you've written any vaguely /tg/-related short stories, you can try them out here. We also have flash-fiction challenges from time to time.There's a discord for writers herehttps://discord.gg/6AwKHGFThe previous thread can still be found in the archive here>>96042773And finally an archive of /tg/ fiction can be found here:http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (dead link, but may be resurrected one day)https://2d4chan.org/wiki/Storythread (page missing, wiki still up)https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Storythread
>>96644454Perhaps the most fundamental pieces of writing advice is that if you want to write well, you have to read a lot. So with that in mind: what's on your bookshelf, anons?How many books do you have? Which one's your favourite? Do you even still buy physical books or have you switched to an e-reader? And do you borrow from public libraries at all?Personally - and I know I'm going to be called unoriginal - I think my favourite book is the copy of Lord of the Rings that I've had since I was a kid. And I'm a committed Luddite in that I still prefer physical paper over e-readers; I also borrow from public libraries fairly regularly.
>>96644491Lord of the Rings is a wonderful book.Last time I counted, pretty sure it was over 300 books. Could be over 400 now. There was a time when I was at flea markets occasionally, and would grab whatever I could find that looks interesting, or if it's an author I heard of, but never read. Or sometimes just books that looked old. The oldest book I currently own is from 1927. Probably a bibliophilic tendency.
>>96644825Misjudged it, after counting them for whatever reason, I got 340 books.Roughly, I may have lost count, occasionally…
>>96644491Any recommendations on good fantasy to read? I have this weird inkling that I want to write a detective/noir story set in a high-magic setting.I recently bought Sanderson's Mistborn but the size of the book daunts me. Also a lot of the books I read are more like books on how to write, and not necessarily fantasy. So far I've really liked Goldman's Adventures in The Screen Trade, and Araki's Manga in Theory and Practice. I'm also mostly through Maass' Emotional Craft of Fiction but I'll eventually have to reread it since it's been so long and I've mostly forgotten it.
>>96645545>I have this weird inkling that I want to write a detective/noir story set in a high-magic setting.Honestly, I can't think of anything that fits this exactly. Terry Pratchett wrote a few detective stories set in the Discworld (part of The Watch series), but they're not really noir. On the other hand, the Witcher series has some very noir vibes at points, but they're not really detective stories. Ironically the only person I know who writes high fantasy noir detective fiction is me. But unfortunately for you, I never get around to finishing them. >I recently bought Sanderson's Mistborn but the size of the book daunts me.I don't think I've read that since around when it was originally published, but I remember it being a very quick read. Like, so quick I blasted through it, went back and got the second part of the trilogy, then bought the third part and read that too in like a couple of days. Of course I was pretty young then; I definitely get through books slower now that I'm older. But while Brandon Sanderson has his faults, stodgy prose and slow pacing are not among them.
>>96644454It's more important to write every day than to write well.Just write every day, write often. At the end of the year, you'll have more than 300 pieces of writing that you can polish and develop.Just keep practicing. It's simple.
>>96644825I definitely have far fewer books than you. I've never actually counted, but I've only got one proper bookcase and a mini one to fit them into. I really need to get a bigger bookcase. I'm also not sure what the oldest book I have is. Probably a Bible from the 1870s.
>>96644454Happy Birthday to 4chan. How many years in the clinker?
I have this cyberpunk story I'm working on, and in it I want to have the characters slowly uncover and (try to) fight some big conspiracy going on behind the curtain. My problem is I can't really think of anything really shocking.My current idea is that the ultra-wealthy are building generation ships at the edge of the solar system and when they're done they're going to leave Earth to complete collapse. And while I like it the more and more I think about it the less shocking and horrifying it seems.Any advice, ideas, or things to get inspired by?
>>96658698Why would society collapse once the rich and wealthy leave?This makes it sound like you are being subversive and that you want to say that society needs wealthy people, which would be amusing indeed for pro-capitalist people like myself.But it's probably not what you are aiming for. For some reason, the collapse is set in stone and assumed. Why? Maybe this can be the shocking factor. Why is it collapsing?
>>96662255>Why would society collapse once the rich and wealthy leave?NTA but my first answer would be that these same people have put the global economy through some kind of pump-and-dump scheme and they intend to leave with all their gains right before the bubble popsof course, the snag here is that this requires there to be somewhere else they can go where all this money has actual use, rather than just fucking off into the stars; it would make more sense on a national (or even continental) scale rather than a planetary one, unless humanity has already established nice places to live outside of earth
