The Writing Thread

[Group Project Carrier]

Any thoughts on smaller/local publishing agencies? No doubt self-publishing as people suggested seems like the best way forward in the long term, I just assume a smaller entity would have more of a vested interest in someone's shit succeeding as to get a bit of an image buff by proxy. Probably too far and few between.

Bruno is correct of course, but also keep two more things in mind.

One: an publishing house's output is proportional to its size. The niche, indie houses will publish two or three books annually--which means that your chances of rejection are actually high because they're going to be extremely selective, and probably also have a narrower view of what type of work is "on-brand" for the agency.

Two, they also have less presence and money/resources than bigger houses, and their books are less likely to turn up in bookstores or libraries, so the exposure they can give you is limited and more of the promotional work will fall on you.

I don't know if your chances of "making it" are necessarily higher for either self-publishing or indie-press publishing. Both are very competitive (but both also give you a tiny, tiny chance of getting picked up by a bigger brand). The main difference is the investment: time or money. Self-publishing is faster but expensive. To query a small house, it doesn't cost money, and you also omit the time/effort needed to find an agent (which you would need to publish with a larger house), but you're going to be spending a lot of time sending queries, waiting for replies, getting rejected, sending more queries ... etc., which is not even to speak of the time that a book spends getting reviewed and edited before publishing.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

What's the best way to avoid typos, and grammatical mistakes, besides reading out loud?

 

[BrunoMattei]

What's the best way to avoid typos, and grammatical mistakes, besides reading out loud?

Have an editor. Otherwise, use your inner circle for feedback.

 

[The Spoils of War]

What's the best way to avoid typos, and grammatical mistakes, besides reading out loud?

Be good at writing.

 

[WelperHelper99]

What's the best way to avoid typos, and grammatical mistakes, besides reading out loud?

Have an editor. Otherwise, use your inner circle for feedback.

This. A beta reader will save your ass every time. If you don't have that, read and reread your work over and over. Tedious, but it works.

 

[OXRAZOR]

yo, a story i wrote, its called verdus

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiR81IlhW1xiLvgqGkoIi1BwLwUwUnvnBOacYD94ZUM/edit?usp=sharing

 

[The Spoils of War]

yo, a story i wrote, its called verdus

I'm blown away. I especially enjoy how you've started your story with a giant paragraph of dry prose about the protagonist's routine, and how you weren't even assed to use the grammar checker that's built into Google Docs.



Wattpad fanfics that were written by 11-year-old girls are better than this. Didn't you learn about paragraphing and basic punctuation in elementary school? I suggest you wait until you've passed the third grade before you try your hand at storywriting. Also, you're a retard, Raditya:



You could have exported this mess as a PDF and attached it to your post, but I suspect you don't have the computer literacy to click two or three buttons, like many other Indians. Well, I've done the work for you, because I guarantee you'll DFE after this.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I'm blown away. I especially enjoy how you've started your story with a giant paragraph of dry prose about the protagonist's routine, and how you weren't even assed to use the grammar checker that's built into Google Docs.

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Wattpad fanfics that were written by 11-year-old girls are better than this. Didn't you learn about paragraphing and basic punctuation in elementary school? I suggest you wait until you've passed the third grade before you try your hand at storywriting. Also, you're a retard, Raditya:

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You could have exported this mess as a PDF and attached it to your post, but I suspect you don't have the computer literacy to click two or three buttons, like many other Indians. Well, I've done the work for you, because I guarantee you'll DFE after this.

Harsh but true.

 

[Pomniman]

yo, a story i wrote, its called verdus

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiR81IlhW1xiLvgqGkoIi1BwLwUwUnvnBOacYD94ZUM/edit?usp=sharing

I wrote a poem called Niggers Tongue My Anus

Niggers Tongue My Anus
Sad but so true
Niggers Tongue My Anus
Turned 'em to glue

Niggers Tongue Your Anus
Gotta get out
Niggers Tongue Your Anus
Better not shout

Niggers Tongue The Anus
Lap it all down
Niggers Tongue The Anus
Nary a frown

Niggers Are An Anus
Of all our ills
Niggers Are An Anus
Don't pay they bills

 

[BrunoMattei]

I posted this before but not in this thread and then I think it got wiped with another forum reset. Enjoy:

I ask if they have a pair of scissors or a razor and they nod again. “How much to cut off your nipples?” The woman shrieks, noticeably upset. I ask to speak to her pimp and a short little man enters after a minute. They argue for a bit before he chats me. We barter and decide one nipple severed at $250. The old woman cries and he pulls her away from the camera to slap her. I choose which one and went with the right nipple. She cries and screams as he stands to the side with his arms crossed. I offer an extra $50 if she does it slowly. She starts crying again but the pimp nods his head. She takes the webcam and gets an extreme close-up on her breast before slowly cutting into it. It goes on for a minute before she almost severs it, leaving it hanging by a tiny strand. I say “gracias” before leaving and making sure to do a chargeback on my credit card.

I pull the same trick again and again; once with a desperate black girl in making her perform race play and another where I had an image loop play before a webcam hiding my face from a man that I coerce to mutilate his penis with a screwdriver.

 

[OXRAZOR]

I'm blown away. I especially enjoy how you've started your story with a giant paragraph of dry prose about the protagonist's routine, and how you weren't even assed to use the grammar checker that's built into Google Docs.

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Wattpad fanfics that were written by 11-year-old girls are better than this. Didn't you learn about paragraphing and basic punctuation in elementary school? I suggest you wait until you've passed the third grade before you try your hand at storywriting. Also, you're a retard, Raditya:

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You could have exported this mess as a PDF and attached it to your post, but I suspect you don't have the computer literacy to click two or three buttons, like many other Indians. Well, I've done the work for you, because I guarantee you'll DFE after this.

nigga,i am indonesian

 

[The Spoils of War]

nigga,i am indonesian

What's the difference? You're still brown and eat cow shit.

 

[philus]

@group-project-carrier

I'm actually wrote a book years ago, but I hated editing the thing until I found an AI program that helps me do spelling and grammar check for me. AI program that you can run on your own computer and not be linked to the internet, unless you want to use ChatGPT API . I can give you guys the AI program and how to run it but you need at least 8GB ram

What contests are you talking about?

Where would you self-publish?

Spoiler: writing goal

I want to post online just so I can get the ball rolling since I have been holding off on writing. And I like to create something legendary, something that lasts a long time where people can keep it alive.

Think how Skyrim is still relevant, and people go out of their way to mod the game, when it came out in 11.11.11. Or how after 50 years warhammer40k is not only consider a legendary IP, but games workshop makes tens of millions of dollars every year. People can buy figurines, customize them, paint them however they want and write their own stories in the Horus Heresy, the 10000 year gap to the warhammer40k settings. I've also been world building for years, so I like to publish it online just to get feedback and traction at least.

Can you kiwis tell me where I can publish some of my world building so I can DM you the links and you can tear apart my universe, add it, warp it, and do whatever you want with it?

What do you kiwis have to say about copyrighting? I want to copyright not to protect my works against other people, but to protect it against big companies like Disney, Games Workshop etc... Also my ideas are inspired by Warhammer40k and DUNE. I mention these two examples because Games Workshop copyright strike people who take their ideas from them, even though Warhammer40k took ideas from the DUNE universe like how alien the universe is to the imperium of man alien culture, for example servitors, and sardakaurs being the inspiration for the iconic Space Marines.

@Men-in-Black.
To be fair if Partyman is from indonesia he's probably in islam country so less likely he eats cow shit like in India. He's just brown and alittle Halal.

 

[OXRAZOR]

I'm blown away. I especially enjoy how you've started your story with a giant paragraph of dry prose about the protagonist's routine, and how you weren't even assed to use the grammar checker that's built into Google Docs.

View attachment 6954412

Wattpad fanfics that were written by 11-year-old girls are better than this. Didn't you learn about paragraphing and basic punctuation in elementary school? I suggest you wait until you've passed the third grade before you try your hand at storywriting. Also, you're a retard, Raditya:

View attachment 6954376

You could have exported this mess as a PDF and attached it to your post, but I suspect you don't have the computer literacy to click two or three buttons, like many other Indians. Well, I've done the work for you, because I guarantee you'll DFE after this.

also,thanks

 

[Cat Funt]

What do you kiwis have to say about copyrighting? I want to copyright not to protect my works against other people, but to protect it against big companies like Disney, Games Workshop etc...

I think you can relax, they won't steal your Dunehammer40k fanfic.

 

[Cat Funt]

Well hurf durf I rite storie to. I joined some of those 'writing forums' and holy shit, most of what I read there is astoundingly bad. I know we can't expect much from dangerhaired cat ladies and gayniggers. I have found zero in the way of good advice, and posting my shit there will be a waste of time, since none of them can fucking write. Or read, apparently. One's currently got some thread by some clown asking how to write about fog, saying he's ordered a book on fucking fog but would like some input from people who know what fog is. Cue half a dozen serious replies. I think these cunts are just lonely.

 

[The Spoils of War]

Well hurf durf I rite storie to. I joined some of those 'writing forums' and holy shit, most of what I read there is astoundingly bad. I know we can't expect much from dangerhaired cat ladies and gayniggers. I have found zero in the way of good advice, and posting my shit there will be a waste of time, since none of them can fucking write. Or read, apparently. One's currently got some thread by some clown asking how to write about fog, saying he's ordered a book on fucking fog but would like some input from people who know what fog is. Cue half a dozen serious replies. I think these cunts are just lonely.

Read the Write Great Fiction series and follow its advice. It's much more informative than most online resources, as it wasn't written by random people on Reddit or some forum.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Advice from Reddit is one of the worst things you could do. Kind of goes without saying...

 

[Commissar Fuklaw]

Well hurf durf I rite storie to. I joined some of those 'writing forums' and holy shit, most of what I read there is astoundingly bad. I know we can't expect much from dangerhaired cat ladies and gayniggers. I have found zero in the way of good advice, and posting my shit there will be a waste of time, since none of them can fucking write. Or read, apparently. One's currently got some thread by some clown asking how to write about fog, saying he's ordered a book on fucking fog but would like some input from people who know what fog is. Cue half a dozen serious replies. I think these cunts are just lonely.

I was on my nightly incel walk and came to the incredibly arrogant conclusion that it's the difference between people who want to tell a story, and those who can't take an objective look at their work because they need to fill a hole inside of them with arse pats in their little circlejerk bubble.

I wonder if this fog bloke is really autistic because we all get stuck on the 'how many chairs can fit on this X by Y sized verandah' question and need to figure it out before we can continue. Surely he's experienced passing through fog before.

yo, a story i wrote, its called verdus

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YiR81IlhW1xiLvgqGkoIi1BwLwUwUnvnBOacYD94ZUM/edit?usp=sharing

>20:30 PM
Okay, that made me laugh really hard. And so did the rest of it. It's like the diary of a mad man. Just write in your own language, don't worry about English.

Partyman ordered the fog book to help him learn English. Alas, it was a picture book.

 

[Viper the rappah]

almost finishing introductory pages finally
this is is more world building thing
since dino team is about dinosaurs on dinosaur mainly planet with mega continent pangea i thought since this one takes in desert/sub sahara type region to pull some dinos from africa as goons.
Idk i feel like even if only paleonerds would like it i hate idea personally of having mcs fight generic dinosaur species and not those native to land. I just feel like it makes world feel more real

also removed some things and ideas as i thought they were retarded and gay

mc aint highschoolers but ones who just finished it few months eariler as i dont give single shit about the millionth highschool life stuff
made most of them losers in some way to the point that generic nerd character is most normal compared to rest cause i like idea of different kids of losers and outcasts being forced to actual hero work and become better rather than some generic mcs
and when i mean bad i tried pulling as all kids of shit characters
So far i got, Trex deadbeat , spinosaur chud, raptor whore, stegosaur wigger thief and his fat femcel sister, trigga, ankylosaur manlet, and diplodocus nerd.
Prob wont be able to post it anywhere else than here and idk if anyone would find them reletable
story being more serious, i grew out of that. While introduction is bit rest is comedy