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Thread for those who like to read and write including fanfiction. Share drafts, look for beta-readers, ask for writing advice, give recommendations and do all that other cool jazz. Just remember to not bully anyone else no matter how shit their taste might be.
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>>41862
I can and can't. I literally read almost every book in every library in my area as a child and I've been reading for decades, so by modern standards I'm well-read, but at the same time, when writing I find myself feeling under-read and incapable at times, it's natural when you're not a professional writer and haven't had a few books or written works under your belt.

>>41862
Every time I think of writing something my brain goes "you haven't even read 80% of literary canon, fraud"

>>41862
Impostor syndrome is pretty normal for anything. Just remember that however bad you are at something, there's somebody worse at it being paid a lot to do it. Especially for writing.

https://files.catbox.moe/ia136n.txt

A draft of what would be the first chapter in a longer story. Is it worth continuing?

>>41906
Plot wise, seems very clique.
Writing feel stilted and awkward, entirely composed out of short fragmented sentences.

>>41907
Thanks, 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.

>>41910
Keep writing. Also if you're concerned about how something sounds, try reading it out loud or having someone else do it for you.

>>41910
Dont get discouraged anon, its the first thing you ever written, of course its going to suck, nobody ever made a masterpiece on their first attempt.

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always looking for stories, like horror the most, articles too, can't pay, unemployed


If anyone wants I can share some extracts from my book because I'm about 70% of the way to finishing the first draft and I need to know the writing makes sense at least.

>>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

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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

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>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

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>find possibly the only f/m crematorium story in existence.
>site unlocks 2 chapters a week, will finish in 4 years

>>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.

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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?


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