/hobby/ - Hobby

>>42684
Sure, can't hurt I suppose, post it as a file link.

this is a book I'm currently reading on how to make plot and structure. I used to just write "by the seat of my pants" . Now i actually try to give my story structure. Author is a thriller/noir/crime writer and is kind of biased in that direction but still gives really good advice. 8/10 book.

Will elevate your writing beyond fanfic/reddit tier. OK, maybe this alone would make you on the high end of reddit tier without anything else

Really well written story about a surviving Montagnard France, that's still on going.

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/la-guillotine-permanente-a-french-revolutionary-timeline.541361/

>>42977
broken link

I still enjoy reading horse words

>>43137
me too occasionally but not looked at it much lately, what you read recently?

>>43142
I caught up with this recently:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/479815/everyday-life-with-guardsmares
I also found this Disco Elysium / Equestria At War crossover:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/545364/a-day-in-stalliongrad

>>36501
>>36517
>>36519
Been 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.

>tfw read all the fanfics, jp stories, can stories and original works i could find
What am I supposes to do now?

>>44073
write your own, duh

Where do you guys post or read stories at? I've been using ao3 since it has the best tag system imo but its hard to pick out mature stories that arent pwp stuff

>>44193
I use Fimfiction for pony stuff but obviously not that much new stuff on there now, I usually just try search 'best fanfics for X' and go through the top rated on ao3

>>4049
Its 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

>looking at fics on ao3
>look up m/f pairing
>every fic also has polyamory
Why

>>44491
Cause the same flavour every day gets old!

>>44492
Its the same for when I read m/m stuff. I just want to read some fluffy/crematorium stuff with one couple but everything is just like poly shit or threesomes.

>>44193
Questionable 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.

Every time I get the writing itch I find this thread again and see my posts from a few years ago. God speed, workout ESL anon.

>tfw my 800-page modernist anti-war novel about suicide will never be trad published since the market for literary fiction is already grim and all the small literary “presses” on asterim books are mostly print-on-demand and were “founded” by two friends to publish each other and to say they’re published
Anyone here want to start a press?

What's up, wrote a poem and have no one to share it with so I'm dumping it here.

I will show you the hole;
the black earth and
the yellowing leaves
buried to my side,
as I stand waist high
watching families
visit their loved ones.

Beneath the mulch
and rotted bark,
they pass like
they were shopping
and without stopping
glance, as if
to almost ask:
"Who is it".

Spade sinks through loam,
and above guards
mute as stone
freshly etched rock,
its secret already known.

And below
entangled in shallow
pools dwell roots
disturbed from slumber,
having dreamt
in wonder.

Grave thoughts press
upon the mind, and
in a knotted rhythm
I find only time
to think of the past:
in the dying light
it shall be my last.

>>45239
This is nice, thank you for sharing comrade

>>44997
I would like to but it's confusing. I'm thinking of just using a company to self publish

>>45352
wrong. see watamote
but why would you even want to belittle your readers, be glad they bought your product!

>>45355
that's easy, gay rape, like the joker sequel

or here is a better one, don't write genre <- your audience will be more mature

>>45513
Wait its just a shitty gary stu face slapping story. Goddamn

I've been watching the handmaid's tale and for some reason it makes me want to write a Commando crossover fic where Matrix fucks up Gilead

wack.

>>45756
I had a bunch of funny ones from ao3 but I lost them, this is the only one I have on my phone

>>44997
I write "literary" fiction as well (though I haven't yet finished a novel) and I figure I'll never get anything published either.

What kind of fics/stories you guys been reading lately?
Been rereading a bunch of bnha fics from my bookmarks, seems to be in slow period of releases for stuff right now

>>45756
based

>>46103
*on cringe

>>46104
no u da not based

Anyone still looking for a reader? I have studied narrative storytelling a bit, I think I give decent insights and suggestions.

I'll be looking for some eventually. Unfortunately I haven't anything eight now but preliminary background for my fantasy world for the story I am writing, but I am down to converse about that as well.

>>46106
Preferably not fan-fiction. Rather read someone with aims of publishing. I don't read fanfics anyways. Haven't read one since I was a kid.

>>45513
>>44493
what the hell is crematorium, a cremation fetish?

Do you have any constructive criticism about my story so far? I am aware of a couple issues with characters not getting as much development as I would like because I had to cut their scenes due to plot / pacing reasons.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63403183/chapters/162445723

>>46151
Just read the last two chapters. The way you write the affini is genuinely terrifying. You might say most characters besides Minerva are underdeveloped, but as i see it most of her interactions with them are just very plot-driven and often more reflective of herself than anyone else. If anything is well fleshed-out it's the environments and spacial layouts of most places, your writing really conveys a sense of scale and complexity, No criticism here!

Which one of you wrote this? https://www.fimfiction.net/story/573394/billions-must-smile

Got my phone back after a month of being on a ward without an internet connection. Wrote this for one of the women here:

March gives way
to June; and
all the bitter
season of youth
Falls by blank
passage to a
sole proof: of
days wreathed in
loose threads
of ivy and
sycamore leaves,
whose soft foot
treads on
too-hard ground:

its rough Earth
the Eden of
your truth.

https://jpst.it/4niHw

Another I wrote on the ward, mostly as a fancy as there's no way to edit the verse so it was written for pleasure. The final line isn't fully mine.

The last thing I wrote before being admitted:

You have a shadow,
they cackle, but
I know that laugh;
its sharp harsh
whine which nips
at heels, heels,
and waits patiently
by the bed.

Little is said
greeting old friends
seeming as if
they never left;
I smile to myself
and think in secret
of the life
I have kept.

They are silent now,
the ritual throes
of passion spoken
they hang as if
flickering on the walls.

From the mantle drums
ticking, and as usual
their faces are hieroglyphs
scrawled in baited breath:

In the dark
I tell them all.

Last of these I'll post here: a failed verse on the false comparison between a medieval jewler and war.

What does he there
set upon the world
by that jewelers art?
-
To let dark night
by passion sparked
burn and shatter,
this cloister
scorched black
by racked coal
like witches pyre,
its white ore
witness to the beating
of a castanet's
falling ire.

Dust sweats
and settles this
blood gem'd crown,
ministering raw force
by Mars' princely state,
the wincing cry
drowning all sound
as light is drawn
by first breath:
baptised in the
Phlegethon,
and to fresh murder
shaped.
-
Set high that art
which by war wrought
and polished makes
of life's ends mistakes,
fathering no doctrine
save beauty unto death,
for beauty's sake.

has anyone looked into self publishing?

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