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2h ago
I have re-written the first page of my novel about 30 times. Today I sat down and it flowed perfectly. I’ve only written short stories and I’m finally working on my first novel. I feel like I will be editing as I go and re-writing chapters and scenes. Hopefully this will save some time in the future. Does anyone else do this and is it time efficient?
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2h ago
As the title suggests, I’m looking towards the ramifications of a character that has both stoic and prideful qualities in their characterization.
The layout I’m planning is him being congruent to that of Icarus and Oedipus. A literal prophet meant to be driven towards madness slowly, but surely.
I’m thinking about taking a more subtle approach for anger and frustration. But I don’t know about the other emotions or how they would react to specific events, or what this combination would even look like from an outside perspective. What would be the body language? Their tone most of the time? Wha ..read more
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2h ago
I’m working to start a childhood best friends to enemies to lovers, but I can’t seem to land on a solid reason for why the MCs turned their backs on each other. I want something heavy enough that’s like deep rooted hatred for her to have cut him out, or vise versa if that works better, but something light enough that when they’re finally forced to confront the issue, it’s more of a misunderstanding that gets somewhat resolved. I need some other perspectives please!!
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2h ago
I, and probably many others I think, cannot write romance between characters for the life of me. I have very little knowledge about falling in love because I'm aromantic asexual and ofc lack an actual understanding of romance. I'm writing two different pairs falling in love, so I'm asking for help here, I just want a basis for how someone would fall for someone else and maybe update this later with actual character info to understand better on how their dynamics would work. But I will say that it's a wlw and a mlm type of romance.
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2h ago
When I first started writing I had writer's block all the time. Because in my mind, how I intuitively thought writers wrote their work, was to just write it perfectly from one end to the other. However this method was painfully slow because it took ages to mold each chapter towards perfection.
Then I learned about first drafts. That you're not supposed to write it perfectly from start to finish in one go.
Not caring about each chapter being perfect solved writing block, solved pacing, solved being bogged down in a chapter indefinitely and losing motivation.
So the process how I've learned to ..read more
Reddit » Writing
5h ago
Until recently, most of my writing was opinion essays. I actually thought for a long time that I *couldn't* write fiction because I have such a strong tendency to be direct, some may even say lecturing, with my communication.
And..... yeah, while fiction doesn't feel like a completely unclimbable mountain anymore, it's still hard for me not to turn every dialogue into an essay.
For example, below is something I wrote last night. I would *like* for there to be at least four people in this conversation, perhaps as many as seven, and include two or three opposing voices. I... could use some advi ..read more
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5h ago
From 2019-22 really heavy into street racing. I went through like 3 cars ran from cops lost some friends caused a riot got on the news a few times stuff like that?
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Reddit » Writing
5h ago
Fiction Writer Salary
Annual Salary Monthly Pay
Top Earners $75,000 $6,250
75th Percentile $58,000 $4,833
Average $50,519 $4,209
25th Percentile $38,500 $3,208
That's the way this works. What isn't correct is that everyone should find a market and write to it. The very idea makes my stomach hurt. And there aren't a "few" of us who don't concern ourselves with market first. EW! . Good books have readers who want them. All good books have that.
To-market books also have readers who want them: they want predictable, they like to know some author is going to give them the same thing every time ..read more
Reddit » Writing
7h ago
A small question out of sheer curiosity, how many drafts does it usually take you to finish a single book?
I only learned like... A year ago? Two years ago? That people actually write more than one draft, and I was extremely surprised. Because back then (when I started writing [fanfics] at 13), I just wrote once then posted
Now I'm trying to write my own original story, but the progress is slow because of college. I wanna try actually doing more than a single draft, but I'm not too sure how many it would take until the story is finally "done" and "polished enough"
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Reddit » Writing
7h ago
To be more precise if your story is in first person and you are doing a flashback. Do you do the flashback in first pov or third pov?
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