The Writing Thread

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Where do you post your writings, and how do you advertise them? Substack exists, but building an audience on there from scratch seems like a nightmare. Self-hosting with Wordpress requires some SEO know-how. Twitter is a pajeet scam, no way to get human eyes on anything there and reddit bans anyone for any form of self-promotion.
The modern internet is a hellhole. I miss the days of blogs.
 
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Scream Aim Fire said:
I was planning on writing what was supposed to be a fairly relaxed shorter story, but I keep drifting towards making it a lot heavier than I want. Anyone else got that issue?
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That's not a bug; it's a feature. That and all your other comments are great. It's what writers live for, when the story takes over and leads you where and how it wants to go. Follow it!
 
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I've a script. One that I sent to a big contest where I received feedback on it but not money, just got told it read like Del Toro. At this point I just want to prove something for my own ego. If you aren't in the known, most script/film festivals have their big deadline today and not a single one lets you submit for less than 60 dollaridoos so I'm preparing for the big submitting window January-May next year. I also submitted something to Edinburgh's Flash Fiction a month ago and now I've to go back to the call center (if they even take me back) if I want to keep living.

I'm willing to share a version of my script around and give credit if need be just to make sure that when the time comes I get the most out of my investment.
 
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If anything positive has come out of Amazon owning like 70% of everything ever, is that you can get kdp hard cover author proofs for like $12. That and next-day shipping on plastic Chinese garbage.
 
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"Carnality"
It is like a far off land which I hear tales of
For only those lucky few may reach it
For those who live there are a different breed than I
And those who visit are the lucky Kings
Though I can not set foot on those shores
Still I find my soul burns to conqueror its mystery
So I may imagine
I may listen to those who've been
I may research till I can see it when I close my eyes
Yet still I could not set foot upon this land of bounty
Place where the fertile soil gives up ripe fruit
Sweet nectar of blood
My unreachable
Forever will it burn in the embers of me and I will grow drunk off my lofty desires
 
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Summer heat retreats
cooler days give chase
What should pop into my thoughts?
Of course, your smiling face

I went out for an evening walk
But rain was sent by God
Instead I walk our memory lane
A path by now well trod

Winter comes, the first snow falls
I love the silent streets
I smile to myself remembering
How you'd jabber when we'd meet

Spring time comes and flowers bloom
Couples walk through town
I sit and sip my coffee
And wish you were still around
 
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So, I've got some both good news and some bad news on my end of writing.

The good news is that I've been able to more-or-less figure out that "lighter-hearted" story idea I was talking about on here a while back; talking with a friend of mine REALLY helped me sort some stuff out. Funnily/weirdly enough, it's going to be about a merc working private security, picking up some contracts all over the world; there are a few action sequences in mind, but it's pretty tame for the most part. If anything, it's a weird "slice-of-life" style story, almost. Haven't worked on the story too much as of yet, there's been a bunch of IRL stuff that's been taking my time, but I'm getting it planned out.

The "bad" news is that I got a writing challenge on my end. Basically, it's "write something self-indulgent", i.e., I can write whatever I want, design anything I can think of. Problem is, I have no idea what to write about; had ideas for an "urban fantasy" setting akin to the World of Darkness, but I was also thinking a post-apocalyptic setting, or maybe a story set in a snowy wilderness, or snowy apocalyptic/state of emergency setting. Or maybe something to do with pirates; I like pirates, though the woke trying to co-op that shit makes me hesitant.

It being a self-indulgent story, it's not like I can really ask for help; just venting, I suppose.
 
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Scream Aim Fire said:
So, I've got some both good news and some bad news on my end of writing.

The good news is that I've been able to more-or-less figure out that "lighter-hearted" story idea I was talking about on here a while back; talking with a friend of mine REALLY helped me sort some stuff out. Funnily/weirdly enough, it's going to be about a merc working private security, picking up some contracts all over the world; there are a few action sequences in mind, but it's pretty tame for the most part. If anything, it's a weird "slice-of-life" style story, almost. Haven't worked on the story too much as of yet, there's been a bunch of IRL stuff that's been taking my time, but I'm getting it planned out.

The "bad" news is that I got a writing challenge on my end. Basically, it's "write something self-indulgent", i.e., I can write whatever I want, design anything I can think of. Problem is, I have no idea what to write about; had ideas for an "urban fantasy" setting akin to the World of Darkness, but I was also thinking a post-apocalyptic setting, or maybe a story set in a snowy wilderness, or snowy apocalyptic/state of emergency setting. Or maybe something to do with pirates; I like pirates, though the woke trying to co-op that shit makes me hesitant.

It being a self-indulgent story, it's not like I can really ask for help; just venting, I suppose.
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Do you have to restrict yourself to one setting? Perhaps it could be in an episodic format, with each one being a different setting.

From there, you could keep with the idea of a giant world that has all these different settings and justify it post-hoc, or find which ones you enjoyed the most and take those to make the setting.
 
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Do you have to restrict yourself to one setting? Perhaps it could be in an episodic format, with each one being a different setting.
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If this is about the "self-indulgent" story:

Nope! I'm planning on covering a lot of different settings, actually; the self-indulgent story is basically free of any restrictions, so I'm hoping to go pretty much completely wild, frankly. My issue is, I have no idea on where to start; I've got a lot of things that I like to write about, ranging from pirates, to westerns, to cyberpunk, to classical medieval fantasy shit. I just don't know what to start with; the beginning was going to really set the tone for the rest of the plot, most likely, and I'm still tossing ideas around on what, exactly, I want to make.

I'm not exactly worried about it right now, regardless; I've got several other story bits that I'm working on before this one. Probably for the best I get the other stuff done before I start on this, regardless; don't want to get too many irons in the fire.
 
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So I got in a traffic accident yesterday. Nobody got hurt, both cars still work, but I needed to do something because my mood was fucking terrible. So I went to this story I've been working on in the background. Been stuck on chapter 7 for a while. In one night I double ch7's page count. And I'm still not done with it. I'm still working on it. Literally a car crash broke my writers block.
 
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It took a long time but I finally got my voice and my central idea, it’s batshit insane and demented but it’s mine, also worked in some real events that I’ve seen and experienced.

I’ve been taking the “architect” approach (no fat chicks in the story) and creating the blueprint for months now, refining and getting every last fucking detail in place before taking what I’ve already written in the form of dialogues, inspiration-fueled passages and key moments and merging them into their final form.

Nicky Rackets was very useful in studying the destructive effects of hedonistic indulgence, his “Dear John” meltdown was my eureka moment.
 
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Been about a week since my last post, so I've got a topic to ask everyone:

Are there any settings or plot ideas that you want to write, but feel as though you can't? Like, is there a world or story idea that you have in mind, but it feels just too... "awkward" to write for whatever reason?

As an example, I've had some ideas about making a pirate storyline for quite some time; problem is, with how the woke have been co-oping pirates as of late - i.e. games like Skull & Bones and/or woketards using pirates for "eat the rich" stuff - it gets awkward to write about. Anyone else got this issue, or is it just me?
 
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I felt like that for a bit, but then I had an epiphany while reading/watching some feedback about a series from one of my favourite authors and realised I can do whatever the hell I want and fuck what anyone thinks. I'm writing for me and if that goes against late 10's early 20's orthodoxy then too bad. I'm never going to make a living doing this but damn it, I love doing it so why censor myself?

As for internal 'awkwardness' instead of external, I really want to do a romance of the three kingdoms space opera but I simply don't have the skill yet to do it justice. Another decade and I should be good.
 
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Does anyone get inspired from being high and write up a novel overnight? Because for me, it really doesn't happen aside from getting 1-2 ideas at best.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Been about a week since my last post, so I've got a topic to ask everyone:

Are there any settings or plot ideas that you want to write, but feel as though you can't? Like, is there a world or story idea that you have in mind, but it feels just too... "awkward" to write for whatever reason?

As an example, I've had some ideas about making a pirate storyline for quite some time; problem is, with how the woke have been co-oping pirates as of late - i.e. games like Skull & Bones and/or woketards using pirates for "eat the rich" stuff - it gets awkward to write about. Anyone else got this issue, or is it just me?
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I wish I could write a space naval adventure but I don't know shit about space travel or the navy.
 
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