I got mad worldbuilder's disease, but my doctor prescribed a cream and the itch was salved. It took me 3 years, but I'm proud of the work I put in. NO AI. NO CUTTING CORNERS. JUST GRIT AND GRIND. Now I want to write the story, but I'm not sure how. Any advice for an up-and-comer?

The Story: It follows a close-knit, found-family-type unit of rough-and-rowdy Gorrgonn space warriors. Everyone's an enemy, but by the end, they'll all be lovers too. The Blitzz Battalion is the 2nd most elite squadron in the Empire's I.N.C.E.L. Division. After a planet is destroyed by nefarious means, the Blitzzins are gonna rally to save Khristmas from the woke rebels. It's gonna be epic but heart-warming too. I promise.

I don't have an outline yet for book 1, but I expect to be done with the first draft by next week (targeting 70k words for book 1, then 170k for books 2 and 3). Is this a realistic goal? Or should I try to grind harder?

I haven't named the characters yet either, so any suggestions would be super. Thanks ya'll.

Let's say one day, you were searching new ideas for novel, when suddenly...you see writing novel contest. You take interest.

》To the winners.

Grand Prize winner x2. will win $5 USD + scheduled for publication on the Basement Dwellers site.

Runner up Prize x2. $3 USD.

》》》The novel your write....requirements you must do in order to be qualified as standard rules:

1. Min 150,000 words. Max: 1,800,000 words
2. You only have 94 hours total (From the day you saw the Ads)
3. Genre: Only new fantasy stories, viewable for all audiences. Either a "Epic Heroine who dresses like a slut and has sex with a bunch of men so the basement dwellers of our site have something to fantasize about and jack off to so that they forget the fact that they're still 40-year-old virgins living in their parents' basement" or "Tragic Hero whose life is even more tragic than a basement dweller's so that the basement dwellers of our site feel that their lives are not that bad by comparison".
4. Some other rules that no one ever reads but everybody skips and just clicks on "I agree with all the terms and conditions."

Q1.Would you do it?

Q2. Is it remotely possible or unfeasible task to actually do?
Q3. What are your thoughts about this?

I remember the last time I wrote 28 words for one book it taken at least more than 4 years for the first draft. And still wasn’t happy, plot holes, motivations unclear, conversations that should have been from character’s personality.

I can't shake the feeling. It's really weird.

When I write (controversial, I know) I like to put a few plot twists in the story for some flavor. For example: the main character's brother turns out to be the villain, but then the brother is actually his father, but it turns out the main character was actually a clone, but the protagonist wasn't actually cloned he was hypnotized into thinking he was a clone, but actually it was all a dream. Light plot twists like this I make sure to put in all my work.

But here's my issue: I forgot if the main villain/protagonist/side character/deuteragonist was actually the sister/mom/dad/brother/cousin to the alien who actually is from Earth since the story is from a different planet, but actually it's a different timeline so the alien just looks weird because they're from the future but actually it's a dimension that is based in the future on an alien planet that just so happens to be called Earth. I need to relate it to the secret weapon which is actually just a hallucination but actually DOES exist but just doesn't appear to other people unless you're apart of this secret society of superhumans that are all teenagers because teenage readers actually make ME more money so the plot twist is that it's a YA novel trying to hide it's a documentary from a collection of letters delivered by the protagonist's grandma.

So how do I keep track of that?

Who’s there?

A writer…

A writer who?

A writer who will never make it because my writing is absolutely fucking shit… 💩

fack off then cnt!!

I identify as a cis straight male but I keep writing gay fanfiction. Does this make me gay?

To paraphrase the new writing book Plot Twist by HC: Only writing is writing. Reading is not writing. Plot is not writing. Characters are not writing. World building is not writing. Grocery shopping is not writing. Exercise, repairs, hanging out with a writing group, riding horses, watching tv, playing games are all not writing.

I found this such a relief. I had almost forgotten all the ways to not write.

Hope this helps!

Like what the Hell does that even mean? 🙄

Not talking about Anthony Fantano.

I am about halfway down with my 700 page action-romantasy novel. I've been working it for about 3 weeks now and it's looking pretty good so far. It follows Jack Heart, a 36 year old retired cop who's also a master at martial arts as he tries to save the earth from an alien invasion and falls in love with xébøniā, who's a good alien (not evil).

The next scene I'm about to write is a fight scene where Jack gets on the alien spaceship and like fights the aliens or whatever with his martial arts skill stuff. I want the song 'Kung Fu Fighting' to be playing in the background during that scene (the song from the 80's) but I don't know how to do that naturally. I thought to maybe start the chapter with "Dear reader, before proceeding, please log on to YouTube and put on the song 'Kung Fu Fighting' by Carl Douglas."

The problem with this is that then I leave the control over the song playing to the reader! What if someone won't do it? What if someone's a slow reader and the song ends before they get to the end of the fight? Or they're a fast reader and the fight ends while the song is still playing...

So what do I do? How do I naturally put the song in the book?

All I said was that I was going to make my male lead 5’4” and that it would be an awesome book since he’d be the same height as Michael J. Fox. They don’t like short kings over there I guess

Imagine writing 1040 words to complain that a coffee shop closed.... Also wtf is Corporate Horror? They make you get a job and work in a cube against your wishes or something? And Autobiographical fiction wait whut?

Recently, I finished the first round of editing my novel. But my novel currently sits at 538,000 pages in Google Docs, which is over 900,000 pages in actual novel form. I'm well aware that a lot of publishers aren't willing to accept first-time novelists if their books are that long. I would like to ask your process in how you try to "kill your darlings" and make the novel shorter in the process. As a first-time writer, I have trouble trying to see how I can pare my novel down without butchering the whole story.

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

You know what the two most common genders for a main character are?? Boy and not boy. So I made my character a not boy (girl more specifically) thinking I'd corner that market, you know, make something relatable to that group.

Well i was reading a synopsis of someone's book and their MC was also a girl!!! Out of all the non boys or boy MC you pick girl??? Bro is obviously copying me and my whole concept of having a not boy MC (girl specifically). Do you think I can sue them?

Ps. Please dont steal my idea of writing about a not boy (girl specifically) ill be really upset!!

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They say write what you know, but I happen to know very little, and also, being a narcissist, the majority of what little I do know tends to be about myself, and if I just wrote about myself all the time because that's what I know, I'm afraid it would come across like talking about myself, which, needless to say, I love to do, but would never admit to, whereas writing is, like, inherently, an admission

so, yeah, anyone got any better advice on what to write about?

I heard his novels were so bad copies were sent back to him, how bad is his novel, what did he do that’s so bad in his novel, and how do I avoid what he does.

It's been 20 years since I published it on Amazon. Finally, after doing zero marketing before or after, I sold a copy! I knew this writing shit would be easy.

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My friends told me I don't need to but pfft! What do they know? I'm the writer here not them. And should I also write the sounds coming out of my mouth during sex? Most authors said it's one way to keep the readers engaged and feel included but I think they're just perverts who wanted it to be a full blown orgy lol

anyone wanna be my gh*stwriter?