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7/14/2025, 6:02:18 AM
"Point out the next great writer" edition
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>>24537701
/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC
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Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)
Simple guides on writing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk
Thread theme: https://youtu.be/YxEk44Zj5Kw?si=XqmCXHr0ULuk-VdZ
Previous:
>>24537701
/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ
RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC
Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)
Simple guides on writing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk
Thread theme: https://youtu.be/YxEk44Zj5Kw?si=XqmCXHr0ULuk-VdZ
6/30/2025, 10:36:13 AM
>>24507794
Lol, I've had 30 rejections over two different books. I know people who've had up to 500 rejections. Frank Herbert got 23 rejections, and even Nabokov got about a hundred for Lolita, IIRC. Pick yourself up.
My advice is pretty soulless, but remember who you're writing for. Wine moms and girls in their early adulthood. Remembering your audience is a big part of entertainment in any media, and if you want to make sales, you're going to have to come to terms with that. FURTHER: Your work might be good for the sperges on here, but editors and agents care far more about first page (and even first line) real estate. Your opening page is worth more than your middle hundred pages. That's just the way agents view it. It sucks, but it is what it is. They aren't looking for
>My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
They want something punchy and gripping
>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
They effectively want a thesis statement in the first line and a hook in the first page.
TL;DR, probably your work is fine, your intro just doesn't meet their autistic opening standards OR, you're marketing it badly
Lol, I've had 30 rejections over two different books. I know people who've had up to 500 rejections. Frank Herbert got 23 rejections, and even Nabokov got about a hundred for Lolita, IIRC. Pick yourself up.
My advice is pretty soulless, but remember who you're writing for. Wine moms and girls in their early adulthood. Remembering your audience is a big part of entertainment in any media, and if you want to make sales, you're going to have to come to terms with that. FURTHER: Your work might be good for the sperges on here, but editors and agents care far more about first page (and even first line) real estate. Your opening page is worth more than your middle hundred pages. That's just the way agents view it. It sucks, but it is what it is. They aren't looking for
>My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
They want something punchy and gripping
>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
They effectively want a thesis statement in the first line and a hook in the first page.
TL;DR, probably your work is fine, your intro just doesn't meet their autistic opening standards OR, you're marketing it badly
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