Hello Lit
what would you say-what advice would you give to someone who wants to wrtie a book right now?
Quit this website and never return
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>>24570676 (OP)Just use Chatgpt. Everyone is doing it
>>24570676 (OP)Don't write if your only goal is to write or to become rich/famous.
Write only if you have some things you want to put off your mind or if you are some extremist that wants to convince other people. The best books I have read are about some pain the writer had buried deep inside him, which he wanted to let go of through writing.
(I have no fucking clue about writing and I don't care about it. I am just bored)
>>24570676 (OP)Stop coming here. Think about the story that you want to write and write it, simple.
>>24570685Write a lot a read a lot, right?
>>24570688Im in an abusive relationship with this website
>>24570690I refuse, I want to write it myself and publish it traditionally
>>24570697Like everyone I want to be rich and famous lmao but no, not with this book. I've always wanted to wrtie and no matter what I do I always feel the need to write.
>>24570676 (OP)Quality > Expectations
The easiest way to ruin it is to worry about how it will be received or to write it to impress a niche. Just write it and see what happens.
>>24570676 (OP)Write for yourself. The only important person who should like your work is yourself (more than often, you are the harshest critic as well)
>>24570738People create art with the innate desire to share it...right?
>>24570758Yes, but you have to keep the desire to share in the back of your mind until you actually produce something of value. Otherwise you might as well just write "enemies to lovers" romantasy.
>>24570758I wrote a stash of erotica and short stories I don't plan to share with anyone
>>24570773Lmao I think I get what youre saying.
How does one get goo at the technical aspect of writing according to you?
become a worthy instrument for the Muse
>>24570783Too self-conscious perhaps. I'm well aware people probably won't like it or appreciate it the way I do, after all it's all stuff I wrote because what I wanted to read didn't exist.
>>24570688Least reasonable advice. Aside from wiping my ass, I can't recall anything I've done more consistantly than coming here.
>>24570800If Coleen Hooover or whatever her name is got famous, you can, too
dont.
statistically there is 1 good writer for every 100,000 and you probably arent them.
>>24570690You should kill yourself right now
>>24570676 (OP)Don't let anyone here talk you out of it.
1. dont self insert, you are not your characters
2. your characters must have flaws, perfection is boring, and flaws lead to conflict, which leads to change, which leads to character growth, which makes stories more intradesting.
a personal matter by kenzoburo oe is pretty good and reasonably short if you just need to get through something. best part is its probably as depraved as you are without leaning on that as a crutch
>>24571311you have literally nothing to lose
Have a high IQ. If you aren’t born with that, just plug in prompts into a AI model of your choice until you refine something you like out of it. If you don;t have a high IQ and also want to write something yourself, do this:
1. Think of a premise, there must be something that interests you even if it’s just a fanfic from a movie plot.
2. Imagine what the climactic scene of the story would be. What kind of characters would be doing what in this scene?
3. Take the climax you imagined, and work backwards from that. Think about how all the characters got there. Is there some pivotal event that happened which caused all the characters to coalesce for the climax? Describe that event.
4. Continue working backwards. Skip over anything you don’t have a clear image of. When you think you’ve covered the key events leading up to the climax, insert a placeholder start to top it off. Now you have a rough outline.
5. Connect each event to one another. Use whatever arbitrary means that comes to mind. Bring in side-characters, bring in random BS, whatever, it doesn’t matter. You can’t make a great book so don’t drain yourself trying, just make it. Focus your energy on the events you’re most interested in showing.
6. During this process you’ll have inspirations, just put them in as they come, and at the end read through it and make any adjustments needed for basic consistency.
There. Now go write it.
