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382 posts and 90 image replies omitted.>>41906Plot wise, seems very clique.
Writing feel stilted and awkward, entirely composed out of short fragmented sentences.
>>41907Thanks, probably won't continue. I was excited to write it but I've never done anything like it before.
I was going to call the story 'The Death Of John Smith'. It was vaguely inspired by The Madness Of Hercules.
The plot was going to revolve around a husband's murder of his wife, split into two narratives.
The first narrative would be his release from prison after serving a life sentence and his struggle thereafter. I was going to send him through the stages of grief, and eventually he would suffer a psychotic break as he experiences hallucinations of his dead wife speaking to him. The story would end with him being consigned to a psychiatric ward.
The second narrative was going to be the lead up to the murder. I was going to interweave the narratives so that they ran parallel.
I had so many ideas for this. It was going to be about the failure of his struggle to forge an identity seperate from that of a murderer.
The next chapter was going to be about a barbacue in his family home with his wife and daughters, as well as their friends and his mother. The chapter was going to end with him pouring his cup of red wine on a myrtle plant in his backgarden, transfixed with his anger at his wife and invasive paranoid thoughts of her cheating on him. I was going to describe the wine mixing with the soil and appearing as though it were blood (in a vague allusion to a part in the Aeneid).
I was gonna be a smart ass and call that chapter 'Libations'. I also planned for him to murder his wife with a carving knife in front of his daughters, and describe their screams like that of a banshee.
The woman who recognises him in the first chapter was an allusion to his mother, which was a theme I was going to try and develop.
I guess it will all just be another unwritten story.
>>36501>>36517>>36519Been unable to work on this properly for the past half year, but I've begun to make a return to my writing and I with how much of a block this has been for my story's progression I thought I might as well try to get some feedback on some ideas, thoughts and questions I've formulated over this time. Additionally I've ended up having so many ideas that I've begun drafting out several other stories of different settings. One is set in a distant future of a post-apocalyptic world and another two which I'm intending as a sword and sorcery story. For the former the question of language is not an issue, its set on Earth. The latter however are set in fictional worlds and it's a significant challenge.
Tolkien's LOTR, whatever you may think of its themes or story, is a masterful example of world-building, with languages and names that have meaning and entire cultural histories. Part of this understanding is materialism; there are material origins and pressures that change and form languages, so it can't just be random nonsense noises, there needs to be a method to the madness so to speak. But even then the Silmarillion was never completed and was finished post-humously. So how did he organize writing The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings?
That being said, writing out an entire language, world history and environment is a monumental task, and by the time I'd be done writing out a history and languages properly, it would be years and years, not to mention that it takes away from the adventure; If I already know what will happen as I write it out, where's the fun? The adventure? While I would and do want to create a fictional language to support and maintain consistency within my story(s) what I write will be in real world languages like Russian, English or Spanish, this being an example of Translation Convention; in short call a space a spade.
So a major problem is primarily Names and nouns: the names of places/locations like cities and mountains or of objects and people have their origins in cultural development. Tiamat did not get her name because the Mesopotamians thought it sounded cool, it is linked to Ancient words for the sea and . While modern naming barely focuses on the meaning of names, the names themselves have origins in meaning. For a simplistic example, Leif Eriksson, whose father was Erik the Red, hence Eriksson and the name Leif which comes from the word Leifr that means heir. So when I create a name, it can't just be some jibberish. The names Tolkien came up with for this characters had meaning and consistency relative to the history and culture of Middle Earth. Sure I can create placeholder names, but at some point these things come into play. I don't like lazy cop-outs either. The Mistborn series is interesting, but the "magitech" devices for translation always felt like a handwaving method that doesn't actually try. Maybe its just some OCD autism on my part, but it bothers me.
>>4049Its kimda like how most male fanfic wroters whe they srotd romance only wanna do yuri.
But from what I see, most yaoi fanfic writers do het or yuri as well.
And they do non sexual yaoi too
>>44193Questionable Questing, SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity. I used to use Fanfiction.net back in my early days of writing but later found it to not really be as suitable for actual discussion about the stories as the more forum-styled sites.
Also, on another note, any Sonic fans ITT? I recently began publishing a fic set in the Archie Comics continuity (more specifically around the setting of the 90s SatAM cartoon) where Robotuyghets body-snatched and becomes a more serious threat because the new Robotnik understands how more subtle forms of oppression and methods of social engineering can be more effective in producing compliance long term than more overtly violent ones.
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