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 No.1[Reply]

This board is for the writefags of fullchan, amateurs and professionists.
you can discuss about everything related like
-Asking opinions about your brand new novel
-Discuss about publishers and literature "industry" in general
-Dumpig all your emo poems
-Every char is a mary sue
and more.
fanfics and expanded universes are accepted but i suggest you to try this board istead: >>>/fanfic/
Rules
-NSFW must be covered in spoiler

-Stories/novels/whatever must be in english, if you want to link something from another author in another language please translate it.

-As i said before, fanfics and fanfics discussions are accepted, but for a more focused audience etc its better if you go to the proper board

feel free to post here your questions about this board and ideas for improving it (like new rules, banners etc)
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 No.43

is there a limit to how large of a story I can post here?



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 No.41[Reply]

Dream and Dream

The colors of the leafs are blown away,
The beauty of the season goes away
A white layer comes and it won’t go away
Cold , it is cold but we have fun anyway
The beauty of the world, it is her and everywhere
You just have to look , look closer
Can’t you see, it's not all gray, black or pink
Its a mix of everything you want to be and everything you don’t want to see
And that is what makes earth what it should be
The world full of magic and mystery
Sad and happy
We all want something we cannot be
But one day, one day we will all find our lucky charm
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 No.42

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attempts at purple prose always boring to me. Sorry I don't have anything meaningful to say about your work so here is one of the strangest picture on my hard drive.

 No.53

>>41

Seems a good a place as any. Don't wanna make a new thread. Here's my poem to my wife:

To my beloved,

may you feel my embrace

throughout all time and space

my dear, relax into my arms

and be protected from all harms

know i am always there

we, the eternal pair

nothing can sunder us

for our hearts sing in chorus

in feelings of this bliss we lay

where our love is to forever play

immortal we grow

and with God we glow

eternally it is so

everlastingly, this, I know




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 No.51[Reply]

What does /writ/ think of the snowflake method?

http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/

 No.52

Sounds good, it helps answer the questions a lot of people have when writing; "How do I start?" And this gives you an idea, without being rigid, it assists in terms of what to put down, and you can always change it later.




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 No.49[Reply]

My poem I wrote.

These are some half-assed musings on the cyborg girls in clubs

Drink my soul with the thirst of a thousand fish

I'll walk back through time if I can get that far

I'll not let go of the coat though it clings to me

It keeps me safe

It keeps me safe

from the weather from your past from the spells you always cast

from the storms from the spides through the skull behind your smile

through the pillars through the bones with conversations with your clones

with the clouds with the shrouds through the streets you're not allowed

and you keep me safe

even when I'm late due to the

heather from your class from the spells you always blast

from the norms from the strides of that man the never smiles

through distillers through the dens with salutations from your friends

with the clouds with the shrouds through the streets all built from sound

 No.50

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My mind is a tornado

Long may it last

Why don't we see you

Because the sky bleeds with wrath

That's fair enough but why did you say?

Is it because my nan was ACTING WEIRD TODAY?!

I conjured a sack

after I massaged my back

I asked you to go

making you walk home in the snow




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 No.45[Reply]

As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.

 No.46

I for one support you OP. What do you write?



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 No.5[Reply]

I've been wanting to write a fantasy story with someone. Like RP, but not.
Anyone interested?
Also, so I don't seem like a faggot, share your collab experiences.

 No.6

That depends, OP. What exactly do you have in mind?

I've collaborated twice, both for really short fanfics. It was basically a game of tennis, where my friend would write a paragraph or two and I would write what happens next, and vice versa.

 No.7

Some RP sites are good for improving your writing skills.

 No.13

>>7
Please direct me to one of those sites. Most RP sites I've been on come with shit partners for writing, I've stopped RPing because I felt like it was stagnating my writing skills than helping them.

 No.44

test



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 No.22[Reply]

Ever got dosh for writing? were you not ashamed to show off the work to family?

 No.40

My mother is a writer herself and a language teacher. I was a bit ashamed but if it will help me to become better it's worth showing it to everyone.



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 No.10[Reply]

Tell me, /writ/, what are you working on?

 No.12

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Old post apocaliptic novel. I writed and rewrited it at least three times, and im still adding and improving stuff, even if im aware that no one will pubblish it.

halp

 No.28

I'm working on an experimental short story; except I'm experimenting with characters for future stories instead of tropes.

 No.36

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Getting started :(

 No.37

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A Tag Team Topical verse - the topic is my picture.

Here's the short snippet I wrote for the start:

The board is set, the pieces are in motion - a Wager of Worlds whose ties run deeper than the Oceans. In the beginning 'twas a game of pawns advancing to vie for position. Yet, as time proceeded with violence, attrition: pieces were exchanged, each side had envisioned futures where behind the division of White and Black deep tides and a mission curled inside the silence, forbidden. The pushing of pieces, hands, with rifle's precision in strikes and incisions, insidious, they play for the life of the living - the hidden current that runs rife and stifles sedition. Kings and Queens - Knights and Castles, the ring of these is the vice that grapples and brings to knees the gneiss in mantle. The very foundation of earth twists beneath the heights of battle.

 No.39

Working on a fantasy story set in modern time. It's about an editor who wanted to kill himself but somehow ended up being hit by a goddess. Going for a romantic comedy type of story, will see how it works out. It's called Stray Goddess.



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 No.38[Reply]

It is the 5th Era and the only Civilization known to man is the enormous Land of Monacia. According to legend Monacia once stretched across the entire Continent of Golgatha but after 5 Eras it was reduced to nothing but a coastal Empire stretched thin but staying strong against the Aberrants that took have taken so many lives.

Nobody knows anymore how big Golgatha is as those 5 eras stretched a total of 10000 years and their might have been more Eras before those and Monacia is the last bastion of Humanity.

The story focuses on a boy named Lucian Gulbrand and his mentor/Godfather Falke as they try to mend the boys relationship with his Father and Lucian becomes the type of man that strives to find Humanities lost history.

If any of you want to know more I can tell you some more details.

The books almost fully written and ive gotten it legally protected and soon im going to send it out to publishers.

What I'd like is to maybe find some editor-fags here. once i have the completed draft that i feel comfortable with I could use one of you guys as my editor and push your name in my book. if it does well enough you can make a name for yourself in the industry.


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 No.33[Reply]

A rose rides low like erosion of comets
A meteor strikes foes, imploding upon it
A shakespearian sword, a soldier of sonnets
only fearing the lord whose hold is stone, onyx
but if he stood in opposition's facing
would he be praised or would he be chasing?
A dream falls to pieces unless it is pursued
esteem for complacence means envy all consumes
and if a man chases desires, not embracing the fire
He does himself disservice as great as a pyre
Lust for possession, a gluttonous weapon
and thus intersection must fade for a function
So fear not my child, this fable is nothing
fear only inaction, disabled and stunting.

 No.34

>edited slightly

A rose rides low as erosion of comets
A meteor strikes foes, imploding upon it
A shakespearian sword, a soldier of sonnets
only fearing the lord whose hold is of onyx
but were he to stand in opposition's facing
would he be praised or would he be chasing?
A dream falls to pieces unless it's pursued
esteem for complacence means all envy consumes
and if a man chases desires, not embracing the fire
He does himself disservice as great as the pyre
Lust for possession's a gluttonous weapon
thus this intersection must fade for a function
So fear not my child, this fable is nothing
fear only inaction, disabled and stunting.

 No.35

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>Sonnet #2

A torch's flame burns as bright as the wick
candles coarse with wax that's white to the tip
A soldier blames fate for the rifles he grips
cold, but maintains for his life has been stripped
insightful and spry, able minded and wise
taking strides all in time in the face of strife
erasing life from their faces, sniped
invading at night and raiding, a blight
a cancer, disease, the plague of the fight
ensnared in cages, contained by their might
and there it wages an ageless vermin
a rat reaching into brains, in rage unfurling
engaging early, children slain and curling
corpses litter the floor as the days are burning.



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 No.31[Reply]

I get inspired to make them every once in a while. I'll post some I've written over the past few years, feel free to post yours.

 No.32

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April 30th, 2013

I left the house at 10pm.

We met up at the convenience store near the town center, which the hurricane had lightly damaged. The power lines had fallen in a few places, and we avoided the puddles beneath them, and the air was cool and wet, luckily we both wore a jacket.

A few lights were on from the generators, and the water made everything reflect nicely, the slight breeze making everything cooler. We only saw one or two pickup trucks go by. We left our bikes in the ally we met in. We talked about stupid shit and smoked Reds and walked through the alleys and streets and found things of little value, not caring, dropping cigarette butts, getting lightheaded and louder, all specific to us now, the feelings being shared, but what's being discussed all so specific and shared, two people with, for lack of a better term, kindred souls, sharing cloudy and strong feelings, creating a fall back memory for the future, only being vaguely aware of it at that time.



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 No.26[Reply]

I want to write a story and would like you opinion on it.

>anon is trying to masturbate but is too uninterested to finish

>starts thinking about how shit his life is
>decides to turn a new leaf (again) and go for a run
>starts to run down the stairs and trips
>breaks neck and blacks out
>wakes up in a new fantasy world
>thinks he is going to start an epic adventure, optimistic
>enslaved by orcs and used as fuck toy cause his long hair and bony skin makes him look like a girl to orcs
>broken anon is despair/delirious, goes full /d/
>orc camp is raided by elves
>elves take slaves including anon to frontier fort
>anon and non-elven slaves is used for experiments by alchemists to test healing properties of certain medicine
>anon accepts his fate while missing his own world and prepares to commit suicide
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 No.27

Seems interesting enough but you'll need to develop more in terms of a plot imho

 No.30

You might be interested in checking out Lester Dent's pulp plot formula and adjusting your story to fit.



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 No.2[Reply]

Hey /writ/, a shitty fucking writer here. I've been working on this story for a while and plan to eventually publish it as an eBook. I'm having trouble on how I want to release it, though. I've been thinking about putting it out as a series of novellas. However, there's a huge time skip in the middle of the story and I feel like it might work better as two novels instead.

In case anyone is curious, it's basically a coming-of-age story about vaguely defined sky pirates and is set to include a total of 18 illustrations.

pic unrelated

 No.3

two seems better if there is this timeskip

 No.9

Sounds interesting. I'd say two novels as well. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for novellas these days, unless you're King or someone with a rep.

 No.29

Bumping because the question I have is similar to OP's: where should I upload (not publish) my works? FictionPress?



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 No.17[Reply]

I recently migrated here from halfchan and this seemed the most appropriate place to post my short stories. I encourage others to do the same!

"A Disquisition of Elysia"

http://pastebin.com/8HTX8Byn

It is a short story, written in the style of a documentary, about an explorer's experiences on the elven island of Elysia. This was originally written for the Weekend Smut Thread on halfchan's /tg/ so there is explicit smut involved (I hope that is alright)! Please feel free to comment, critique, and share your own works for everyone to see!

 No.24

Why are they elves?

 No.25

How long did it take you to write this?

How often do you practice writing?



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 No.4[Reply]

Hey /writ/ first time posting here. I've been investing alot of my time into scripting and other kinds of writing. And I continue to find myself "not in the mood" to write.

So, how can I get in the "writing mood"? Dim lights? Calm music? Anything helps, thanks.

 No.8

How about white noise? I find that relaxes me.

 No.11

>find something boring to do
>start to have fantasies about your work
>after you are done with boringstuff put on some nice music (better if related to the situation of the writing, ex: you write a scenario of the standard windows xp wallpaper you listen to some calm music etc)

 No.21

Eliminate distractions– stop leaving the house, stop paying for electricity, and stop using your phone.

 No.23

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>>11
This anon and his dubs speak the truth. Engage in something physical and mildly repetitive for a while. Your brain will go "this fucking sucks" and its creative hips will start moving on their own.

Also, when you write, don't do it drunk. Coffee is a much better writing stimulant.



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